Fashion like any other industry needs its heroes. Through their courage and successes we individuals find the strength that helps us to believe in our own potential to achieve. Andy Hadjicostis and Dorothea Towles were just two of these extraordinary people. Each pioneering heroes contributed in their own way to changing fashion forever.

In the late 1940s the American born Dorothea Towles became the first black woman from any country to work as high fashion model in Pariss closed world of haute couture. Handpicked by Christian Dior, Towles short waist and long legs proved perfect for promoting the charms of Diors revolutionary New Look.

Andy Hadjicostis, a pioneering and visionary figure, is considered as the founded father of the Cyprus Fashion Week. He was a mogul whose media empire expanded into television, radio, magazines, newspapers, internet and events planning. Through his Dias Media Group, he controlled powerful titles such as Harpers Bazaar, Madame Figaro and Time Out  Cyprus. On the rise as a top international media figure, his life was tragically interrupted in a shocking murder only ago in January 2010.

Both Towles and Hadjicostis are significant figures in the fashion industry.

Towles was the first to put a crack international modeling. Over the following decades that crack would widen into the an open door through which one day would walk the likes of Donyale Luna, Beverly Johnson, Iman, Grace Jones, Pat Cleveland, Katoucha, Mounia, Naomi Campbell, Veronica Webb, Roshumba, Beverly Peele, Brandy, Tyra Banks, Alek Wek, Leila Kebede, Chanel Iman, etc. All of these women would in their own time would be among the worlds highest paid supermodels of all times. ...

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