FROM WAIT! ORDER: INTERVIEW WITH CATERINA KARAZISSIS OF TRAMA GIOIELLI

Discreet luxury and unique personality. So, Trama Gioielli – a brand founded two years ago by Catherine Karazissis – are. After years of hard work in the fashion industry, particularly in the field of textiles, Karazissis decided to transfer her all cultural baggage acquired into a project of her own. Works which, as she will explain, are made with Noble Fabrics which make them unique in their kind.

Caterina, do you remember the moment when you thought Trama Gioielli was really something possible?

I have two interpretations of what it means to me “possible”: a possible realization and the possibility that Trama Gioielli is appreciated by the public. In the first case I believed from the beginning because I am convinced that our duty is to push us beyond our ability to create something new, to surprise us. Without a challenge nothing would possibile. Sometimes it is not, but the stubborn people will always and anyway believe in it! As to the second meaning, that I realized after the first sales and presentations, I have noticed that my jewelry came where they had no need for frills. At that moment I realized it was possible to transmit through an object my emotions.

Noble Fabrics. Explain what it is and how this becomes the added value of your jewelry?

Italy is one of the countries with technical knowledge and preparation in textile production recognized and appreciated worldwide, I had the good fortune of working for years in close contact with some of the best technicians of the fabric. I witnessed outstanding achievements as, for example, the first bi-stretch fabric for footwear. I could not define otherwise the best fabrics produced today if not “noble fabrics”, with that innate beauty that does not need presentations to be immediately recognized. Who did not realize how many things are qualitatively changed for some years to this part? How many times have we heard: “ah, there are no longer things of the past”? I think we have a little lost the meaning of true quality in much of what belongs to us: the production and staff that takes time to be realized, that can exist only after considerable efforts, the quality that “it costs too much.” We like the quality of Trama Gioielli: those complicated fabrics with an important history in terms of dedication and experimentation make us crazy and that’s why only they can be the protagonists of our jewels.

Working with a close-knit team, organized as the design and production of your jewelry?

cvYes, to be supported by professionals like you who believe in a new project, I have to admit, it is great. We belong to two different worlds: I come from the textile industry, they are goldsmiths and designers who have worked for well-known Italian and foreign brands. We speak different languages, but we cross our ideas to go in one direction: I take care of the fabrics aspect, research and processing, then they translate my ideas. Everything is of course tested, made and unmade until everything is impeccable. One is the main feature that unites us: to use the best and the most of our expertise.

What are the details that make Trama Gioielli a different brand from others?

For the first time the high-fashion textile sector joins the jewelry to create together a cool jewel technician who wants to offer only and exclusively quality bluntly.

Who should wear Trama Gioielli and what is its market position?

They are jewels for contemporary women, strong but sensitive, elegant and very demanding as well as master of his own life and often with the counted time. For all those wishing to be effortlessly beautiful.

Future Projects?

Many, and everyone considered impossible, that are waiting to be proven wrong, or at least waiting for someone to take care of them.

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