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Evgenia Papaioannou was born in
Kavala in 1982. She studied painting in
Vakalo Art & Design College in Athens
from 2000 to 2003 (Painting,
Scenography, Costume design, Art
History, Art Theory, Sculpture,
Graphic Art, Engraving). Then, she
studied fashion design in Veloudakis
Art School in Athens from 2004 to
2006 (Fashion design, Pattern, Textile,
Costume History, Aesthetics, Styling).
She speaks English and French. She
has been taking ICT classes and
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photography training courses (1
European Award, Isle of
Wight,UK,1996).
She works in the field of fashion magazines as a stylist:
Harper's Bazaar, KLIK, Gynaika, BHMAdonna, CELEBRITY, Pink
Woman, Icons traveller's, STYLE FAQ. She cooperates with fashion
designers and she edits fashion shows, video clips and shops’
windows. She used to be the Head of a twenty-member backstage
nd
team of the 2 Greek Fashion Week in Zappio, as well as the
habilleuse in many fashion shows in the context of of Greek
Fashion Weeks in Athens. She is also an associate to the clothing
company P&R Fashion (Anna Riska), as a fashion designer.
She has joined in many collective painting exhibitions in
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Athens and in Kavala, as well as in the 1 Athens Fringe Festival,
in Technopolis, Gazi. In June 2011, she performed her first
personal painting exhibition in the Municipal Tobacco Warehouse in
Kavala and she also presented her exhibition in the Filippi-Thasos
Festival.
She has been creating handmade bags and accessories
since 2008. The American website “Handbag Designer 101”,
announced Evgenia Papaioannou as the “Designer of the day”,
presenting her winter collection of handmade bags (November
2011).
She teaches both children and adults to paint.