DI PETSA AW24 The Body as Prayer Runway Film

The Body as Prayer presented at London Fashion Week February 2024. DI PETSA is womenswear label by Greek designer Dimitra Petsa, centred on inter-disciplinary foundations, combining slow fashion couture practices, with performance art and film. The brand has evolved from the designer’s eco-feminist research project “Wetness” that deconstructs feelings of shame surrounding the female experience and our bodily fluids – water filtered through bodies – bodily water. The signature style “The Wetlook” is an original fabric technique, draped and sewn by hand to mimic ripples of water across the body. Traditional Greek embroidery techniques are preserved and h