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  • EYE CANDY

    films of the season: monsieur chypre – a short film with erotokritos

    - by antoine

    The Stimuleye is proud to announce, with the support of Vogue Italia, an “erotic fashion epic” : Monsieur Chypre.

    “HE KNOWS WOMEN, AND WOMEN KNOW HIM”

    Erotokritos, it’s a strange name for a fashion brand.
    It’s an even stranger name for a person.
    And yet, he is truly called Erotokritos Antoniadis, named after the main protagonist of medieval epic poem, a hero “born from the labors of love”.
    For 15 years, his label has been seducing women of all ages, drawn to collections that go back and forth between the sophistication of Paris and the dolce vita of Cyprus…

    Monsieur Chypre - Come and get it

    "come and get it."

    “THEY CALL HIM MONSIEUR CHYPRE”

    France and Cyprus, Paris and Nicosia, it’s a long-distance couple.
    In Monsieur Chypre, by Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher, they come to life:
    Loan Chabanol, channeling the nostalgia of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, plays the tormented Parisian woman, cracking at the surface,
    while Constantino Kouyialis, in his first first on-screen role, is a revelation as the seductive eponym hero, a modern day Alexis Zorbas.

    Monsieur Chypre - Octopus

    “AN EROTIC FASHION EPIC” we call it.

    “Erotic,” how could it not be with a name like Erotokritos ?
    “Fashion,” of course: stylist Michaela Dosamantes, fresh from winning Best Fashion Award at La Jolla Fashion Film Festival for La Main Dans Le Sac, mixes the season’s classic looks to capture the heroine’s transformation from “bluesy” in Vuitton to “red-hot” in Valentino.
    And “epic” ? What else do you call a fashion film 10 months in the making, taking place not only in Paris but in numerous locations in Nicosia, in the salt lake facing the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque in Larnaca, in the Almyra and Anassa deluxe hotels, in small taverns by the side of the road, or in the majestic monument carved directed in the stone, the tomb of the Kings in Paphos ?

    Monsieur Chypre - Mosque

    “HIS VOICE IS A SONG”

    All this, to the original soundtrack of Lori Schonberg and Shane Aspegren, members of Ça Va Chéri.
    (Download it here).

    So, now the tough questions.
    Is Cyprus really like this ? A little bit. Not at all. It depends how you look at it.
    It is an island of freedom in the east mediterranean, where couples from Israel and Lebanon come to escape religion. It is the birthplace of Aphrodite. You go, you decide.

    So how can I meet this Mister Cyprus ? We hear that one a lot. From women (and men) of all ages. Maybe he’s real, maybe he’s a figment of our collective imagination, our repressed desires. One thing’s for sure — we can’t give you his number.

    “ATTEMPTING TO CHARM HIM IS USELESS. HE IS THE ONE WHO WILL FIND.”

    Monsieur Chypre
    Film credits
    Fashion credits
    Goodies

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  • EYE CANDY

    monsieur chypre – a short film with erotokritos

    - by antoine

    Exclusively on Vogue Italia

    The Stimuleye presents, a film by antoine asseraf & rené habermacher

    MONSIEUR CHYPRE
    A Short Film With Erotokritos
    a THE STIMULEYE production
    STARRING
    CONSTANTINO KOUYIALIS as MONSIEUR CHYPRE
    LOAN CHABANOL (ELITE) as MADEMOISELLE PARIS
    PARIS UNIT
    STYLING – MICHAELA DOSAMANTES
    HAIR – ROMINA MANENTI
 @ AIRPORT
    MAKE-UP – TIINA ROIVANEN @ AIRPORT
    PRODUCTION ASSISTANT – LYNSEY PEISINGER
    LOCATION – HIROMI OTSUKA
    CATERING – EROKITCHEN
    VOICE by LYNSEY PEISINGER
    MUSIC by LORI SCHONBERG + SHANE ASPEGREN
    POSTPRODUCTION by THE STIMULEYE
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  • EYE CANDY

    monsieur chypre: postcards

    - by antoine

    Coming April 11, 2012 to Vogue Italia.

    Monsieur Chypre

    Cypriot countryside. By Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher.

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    "Come and get it". By Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher.

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    Hala Sultan Tekke / Larnaca. By Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher.

    Monsieur Chypre – A Short Film With Erotokritos

    Vogue Italia

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  • EYE CANDY

    films of the season: monsieur chypre

    - by admin

    An erotic fashion epic, one year in the making, THE STIMULEYE is proud to present Monsieur Chypre – A Short Film With Erotokritos, coming April 11th on Vogue Italia.

    Starring Constantino Kouyialis & Loan Chabanol, styled by Michaela Dosamantes, and directed by Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher.

    Monsieur Chypre by Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher

    “He knows women, and women know him.”

    Erotokritos, it’s a strange name for a fashion brand.
    It’s an even stranger name for a person.
    And yet, he is truly called Erotokritos Antoniadis, named after the main protagonist of medieval epic poem, a hero “born from the labors of love”.  For 15 years, his label has been seducing women of all ages, drawn to collections that go back and forth between the sophistication of Paris and the dolce vita of Cyprus…

    “They call him Monsieur Chypre.”

    France and Cyprus, Paris and Nicosia, it’s a long-distance couple.
    In Monsieur Chypre, by Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher, they come to life: Loan Chabanol, channeling the nostalgia of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, plays the tormented Parisian woman, cracking at the surface, while Constantino Kouyialis, in his first first on-screen role, is a revelation as the seductive eponym hero, a modern day Alexis Zorbas.
    “An erotic fashion epic” we call it.
    “Erotic,” how could it not be with a name like Erotokritos ?
    “Fashion,” of course: stylist Michaela Dosamantes, fresh from winning Best Fashion Award at La Jolla Fashion Film Festival for La Main Dans Le Sac, mixes the season’s classic looks to capture the heroine’s transformation from “bluesy” in Vuitton to “red-hot” in Valentino.
    And “epic” ? What else do you call a fashion film 10 months in the making, taking place not only in Paris but in numerous locations in Nicosia, in the salt lake facing the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque in Larnaca, in the Almyra and Anassa deluxe hotels, in small taverns by the side of the road, or in the majestic monument carved directed in the stone, the tomb of the Kings in Paphos ? And we haven’t even mentioned the upcoming almost 10 minutes long directors’ cut….

    “His voice is a song.”

    All this, to the original soundtrack of Lori Schonberg and Shane Aspegren, members of transnational surrealist indie outfit The Berg Sans Nipple.
    So, now the tough questions.
    Is Cyprus really like this ? A little bit. Not at all. It depends how you look at it.
    It is an island of freedom in the east mediterranean, where couples from Israel and Lebanon come to escape religion.  It is the birthplace of Aphrodite. You go, you decide.
    So how can I meet this Mister Cyprus ? We hear that one a lot. From women (and men) of all ages. Maybe he’s real, maybe he’s a figment of our collective imagination, our repressed desires. One thing’s for sure — we can’t give you his number.

    “Attempting to charm him is useless. He is the one who will find.”

    MONSIEUR CHYPRE
    a film by ANTOINE ASSERAF & RENE HABERMACHER
    a THE STIMULEYE production
    STARRING
    CONSTANTINO KOUYIALIS as MONSIEUR CHYPRE
    LOAN CHABANOL (ELITE) as MADEMOISELLE PARIS
    PARIS UNIT
    STYLING – MICHAELA DOSAMANTES
    HAIR – ROMINA MANENTI
    MAKE-UP – TIINA ROIVANEN
    PRODUCTION ASSISTANT – LYNSEY PEISINGER
    LOCATION – HIROMI OTSUKA
    CATERING – EROKITCHEN
    VOICE by LYNSEY PEISINGER
    MUSIC by LORI SCHONBERG + SHANE ASPEGREN
    POSTPRODUCTION by THE STIMULEYE
    CYPRUS UNIT
    ALSO STARRING
    MYRTO KOUYIALIS
    DIVA MODELS:
    ALEXANDRA BUNETSKAYA
    KLELIA YIASEMIDOU
    ANNA DOROTHEOU
    LOCATIONS:
    ALMYRA & ANASSA
    THANOS HOTELS
    ALL CLOTHES CYPRUS: EROTOKRITOS ARCHIVES
    PARIS CLOTHES featuring
    LOUIS VUITTON, EROTOKRITOS, LOUIS VUITTON JEWELRY, APERLAI, MARC JACOBS, DIOR, FELIPE OLIVEIRA BAPTISTA, AURELIE BIDERMAN, OLATZ, KIKI DE MONTPARNASSE, BURBERRY AND VALENTINO
    THANK YOU
    Dimitris Dimitriou / Cyprus Tourist Organisation in Paris
    Philippos Philippou / Cyprus Airways
    Pavlos Metaxas / Diva models
    Antonakis Bar
    Eleni Chrysostomidou
    Lida Philippidou
    Mary Nicolaidou
    Maroulla Antoniadou
    Gallery Argo Nicosia
    Kostas Mantzalos
    The city of Nicosia
    The city of Paphos
    AND
    Filep Motwary

    Vogue Italia

    Erotokritos

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  • EYE CANDY

    coming soon : monsieur chypre

    - by antoine

    an erotic fashion epic, one year in the making….

    THE STIMULEYE presents MONSIEUR CHYPRE a short film with EROTOKRITOS with Vogue Italia

    MONSIEUR CHYPRE
    A SHORT FILM WITH EROTOKRITOS
    by Antoine Asseraf Asseraf & René Habermacher
    with VOGUE ITALIA

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  • EYEcon

    TOO FUNKY to last: the mini decade

    - by rene

    The other day, Stimuleye Erotokritos Antoniadis swung by with a little treasure: when working as a stagiaire at Thierry Mugler, he was asked to snap some backstage pictures of George Michael’s TOO FUNKY video shoot.

    And here they were – George, Thierry, the Lindas and Naomis, Shana, Eva, Rossy de Palma, Ivana Trump, Diane Brill, Lypsinka, Jeff Stryker and so on.

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    George Michael and Linda Evangelista on set of TOO FUNKY posing for the official picture. Photo by Erotokritos

    The song features a sample from The Graduate; Anne Bancroft’s line of “Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?” – and YES we were, then and now, instantly!

    When this video was released in 1992, it was both the epitome of a glamorous era stretching from 1988 to 1992,
    and a marker for the end of said era.

    An era that was no longer 80’s and yet not fully 90’s. What to call it ?

    “80’s and a half” ?  that would suggest that this era was an extension of the 80’s, when in fact it was more of a break…

    We settled for the “Mini Decade,” a 4-year period with visual, musical and cultural codes so unique that they deserved a decade of their own.

    As a teaser for our Mini-Decade series, here is a teaser, pictures which have been sitting in a box, unseen, for over 2 decades…

    Stay tuned for more.

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    Left: Ivana Trump, Thierry Mugler and Lypsinka stand in for another snap
    Right: Linda Evangelista, always ready for her 'look'. Photos by Erotokritos
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    Left: Fierce Trio with Rossy de Palma, and Right: the very young Eva Herzigova. Photos by Erotokritos
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  • EYE 2 EYE

    EYE 2 EYE: la lutte de l’amour

    - by antoine

    Caroline Daily interview of Antoine Asseraf about “La Lutte de L’Amour” (The Struggle of Love), the SS2011 film he made for Erotokritos.

    Caroline Daily: what is the first film which made an impression on you ?

    Antoine Asseraf: The most striking memory for me is David Lynch’s Lost Highway.
    It was my first Lynch, and the mix of glamour and goth, the changes in personality, the concept of looping, free intepretation, all left me without voice.

    With David Lynch, there is always a staggering artistic direction, a mix of architecture, music, design and casting which create entirely novel worlds.

    In a different register, there is also Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, which left a mark because it’s such a violent film, but with an “english” type of violence – very different from the hollywood violence to which i had grown accustomed.

    La Lutte De L'Amour

    (more…)

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