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Athens, Attiki, Greece

Creating commercially successful collections for a high end luxury brand with minimal and sophisticated aesthetics. Researching trends, creating the main concept of the collection for each season, selecting fabrics and trims, sketching both by hand and by using illustrator for technical drawings, creating overviews and mood boards, overseeing the sample.

Piraeus, Attiki, Greece

Designed specialised workwear garments (ISO certified and non-certified) for various industries such as shipping, medical, restaurants and food processing, fire and chemical risk environments, maintenance jobs and many more. Responsibilities: technical drawings, specification cards, graphic design for garments and catalogue creation, research on.

Athens, Greece

Designing jewellery, accessories and clothes for various brands. Making techs and specs, alterations after the fittings, doing the follow up of the samples, preparing overviews and moodboards, designing graphics, product and material research and creation of jewellery samples manually.

Sion, Valais, Switzerland

Founder of a sustainable cruelty-free brand that sold jewellery and accessories made from up-cycled plastic and eco-friendly materials. Responsible for the whole productive process from creative direction to final product as well as all the other tasks in marketing, branding, graphics, web-design and pricing.

Fully, Valais, Switzerland

Created costumes for 21 actors for the play "Come back à Ithaque" which is an adaptation of the final part of the Greek epic poem "Odyssey" by Homer. Responsible also for the creative direction of the make-up and hair styles of each role as well as the backstage assistance (garment maintenance, backstage dressing assistance, maquillage of the actors).

Sion, Valais, Switzerland

Key collaborations:- Short films for the Swiss association 'Les Vins du Valais' for the promotion of wine culture and the book 'Inspirations' by Gérard-Philippe Mabillard (2015-2017).- Graphic design of the wine label for the Swiss rare variety 'Diolle' made by Didier Joris winery (2018).- Graphic design for various companies such as the Indian cuisine.

Basel, Switzerland

Designing Sweats & Graphics collections for the Tally Weijl fashion brand. Trend research, technical drawing using illustrator and photoshop, technical specification cards and fitting alterations on primary and pre-production samples.

London, United Kingdom

A short internship at this mainstream brand supplier to design a small garment collection for the Marks & Spencer brand. Key responsibilities: Designing clothes to suit the company’s style with a fresh perspective, trend research, matching fabrics, creating specs and technical drawings to send to the factories in China and India.

New Yor, USA

Designed technical sketches and line-ups for the luxury brand Christoforos Kotentos using Illustrator and Photoshop.

Greece

Designing, producing and styling (photoshoots) jewellery, accessories and garment collections sold in various outlets throughout Greece. Key collaborations include:- Styling photo shoots for various Greek designers who showed and sold their work through the fashionlover.gr (2012).- Jewellery collection for Positive/Nine Streets clothing company (Winter.

Athens, Greece

Designed jewellery, shoes and accessories to accompany and complete the garment collection. Additional duties included responsibility for all technical sketches (accessories, garments for menswear and womenswear (knitwear and woven and wedding dresses) using Illustrator and Photoshop programs; preparing technical specifications cards; assisting with.

Athens, Greece

Initiated and set up the jewellery and accessories department within the company, establishing procedures, codification system for the products and for inventory, organised tasks, originated sample stock exploitation and arranged production delegation to various manufacturers. Main role involved designing jewellery and accessories for an international.

Athens, Greece

Awarded First Place in the company’s (Attrattivo) clothes design contest and offered a mid-degree placement. Main role involved designing clothes for an international retail chain. Key responsibilities involved producing clothes, print and embroidery designs; graphic design; preparation of samples; sourcing fabrics and materials and liaising with.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Fashion, 2:1

Created various fashion and inter-disciplinary projects, such as the short film 'Anna in Puppetland' that was awarded first place from.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Ba Clothing Design And Technology, 2:1 (7,55)

Activities and Societies: Shortlisted for the participation to the contest 'Triumph Inspiration Award'.Attended as a part-time student..