04/06/2026
Every week Beba sews Pete a new vraka.
Every week Pete takes it off as fast as he puts it on.
This is week one.
Kataklysmos is the theme.
The house of Beba opens the season at the water’s edge with a single look: the vraka, reimagined. Voluminous and drop-crotch cut the original Cypriot way, rendered in iridescent sea-glass blue and teal and hand-beaded, centimetre by centimetre, with magnificent breaking waves and scattered shells.
Worn open over a pearl-cream shirt with an extravagant ruffled jabot and all but buried beneath cascading ropes of gold chain, freshwater pearl and cowrie, anchored by a single oversized ‘Mati’ (evil eye) at the chest.
The traditional stivania return, reimagined, crusted in shellwork to the knee.
Oversized Amber worry beads are presented to emphasise the authentic Cypriot male look. Classic aviators, worn pushed up and away from the eyes, never over them.
The mood is maritime ceremonial.
The model’s expression is glacial.
52 weeks. 52 vrakes. Follow Beba’s campaign to make Pete fashionable. It will not work.
