Behind the fashion collection that bears the programmatic name HYSTERIA there stands a professional designer who, after four years spent working in the fashion circus of Paris and London, decided on a radical step – removing herself from the big fashion metropolises, and opting instead for the epicentre of the European crisis, Athens. The collection is not seasonally based, and comprises outfits that are only made to order. For the designer, it marks an exit and a new beginning. It documents her personal deceleration and reconnection with quality. It arose as a reaction to her new environment and to the impressions and problems associated with it. It is based on contrasts, and uses techniques of collage and camouflage. But HYSTERIA also draws inspiration from the different facets of what it means to be a woman – in dealing with the superfluity of information, the social media, collapse, end-of-the-world feelings, hysteria, sex. Important impulses were provided by the designer’s on-going partnership with the textile artist Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, which makes itself felt in some of the prints.