02/02/2021
Petros Kaminiotis is the designer behind PlaymoGreek, a project that combines his favorite childhood toy with his passion for Greek folk culture. An adept folk dancer, he has been crafting elaborately detailed, miniature outfits for his Playmobils since he was five, both as a personal hobby and later as a way to showcase the fascinating complexity and astonishing variety of traditional Greek costumes to a much wider and younger audience.
Classical Greece looms large in the country’s cultural heritage but when it comes to modern Greece, it’s the country’s customs and traditions that inform to a large extent its popular culture and that shape everyday life. Alas, modernity has been steadily sidelining folk culture, diminishing i...
