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 photography training courses (1st 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 team of the 2nd 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 Athens and in Kavala, as well as in the 1st 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.