Kondylatos Jewellery @ The Fashion Room Service

Kondylatos Jewellery @ The Fashion Room Service

Kondylatos Jewellery @ The Fashion Room Service XXL Edition

The crash collection By Pericles Kondylatos was presented on Thursday 30 October 2014 at The Fashion Room Service.

Pericles Kondylatos checked in room 705 at Fresh Hotel.

Together with the jewellery, was displayed an art installation that resembled a car crash, and an exhibition of vintage photographs of car crashes.

A blooded sheet, a wheel, broken speedometers, and ruins by an accident showed the scenery of a disaster. The theme was inspired by Symphorophilia, a psychological condition under which the individual finds sexual satisfaction in car crashes.

Model: Noëlle Koutra

Special thanks to booker Dimitris Makris & the team of Ozon Magazine, especially George Kelefis.

The crash collection

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The crash collection By Pericles Kondylatos is an – one of a kind – collection in dark colors for the winter. Made by vintage car labels that have been collected by ruined cars which were involved in accidents.  The crash collection is the first ever of its’ kind in the world that has been created by such materials and in this concept of having fatal objects to decorate the body. The intention of the artist is to create beautiful necklaces, created by compartments that carry a doomed fate. This collection arouses many questions about beauty, mortality and vanity: Can the buyers see them independently of their background story? Is the fashion world a place to explore the idea of mortality, death & tragedy? Is there beauty in the grotesque? Can an accident become the source of beauty? Is really life a big re-cycle?

The crash collection: A tragedy redemption.

SYMPHOROPHILIA

Symphorophilia is a paraphilia in which sexual arousal hinges on staging and watching a disaster, such as a fire or a traffic accident.

The term was coined by John Money in his 1984 paper Paraphilias: Phenomenology and classification, formed from the Greek root "συμφορά" ("symphora"):[1]

A special form of sacrificial paraphilia, for which a suitable name is symphorophilia (being erotically turned on by accidents or catastrophes), culminates in an arranged disaster, such as an automobile crash. Like a game of Russian roulette, it may end in death — alone or with the partner. However, flirting with disaster, rather than suicide and murder is the trigger responsible for autoerotic arousal and excitement. Being the daredevil who will live to risk a love-death again is an essential part of this paraphilia.

As a photographic print is the positive made from its negative, so also the positive of self-crashing is arranging for a disaster to occur on the highway, and then watching the carnage from a preselected observation post. Disasters other than on the highway may be arranged — catastrophic fires, for example. For those members of the general public who have a touch of sadomasochism in them, disaster as an unrehearsed event is often a large part of the appeal of entertainment stunts and sports, from the circus to stock-car racing.