The hands behind the work
Maria Chrysafi
Maria Chrysafi is a fashion and textile designer with fourteen years of experience, based in Greece and working with people from all over the world. She reads a body before she reads a size chart: pattern cut by hand, moulage worked on the stand, and the garment corrected on the person who will wear it.
Since 2020 she has run her own slow-fashion practice — small numbers, unique pieces, and embroidery worked into the garment rather than added onto it. Alongside it she has taught for four years in both the private and public sector, at IEK Delta 360 Athens and on public adult-education projects: pattern making, fashion design, textiles, history of fashion, and CAD.
Her training runs from a Fashion Design degree at the University of Central Macedonia through professional pattern-making and draping, styling, shoemaking, and art therapy, to a Master's in Graphic Arts & Multimedia now in progress at the Hellenic Open University.
Creativity has always been the driving force in my life.
The record
- Based
- Serres, Greece
- Practising
- 14 years
- Teaching
- 4 years · private & public
- Own label
- Slow fashion, since 2020
- Languages
- Greek · English · Italian
The full record
Practice & teaching
- 2022 — nowFashion Instructor · IEK Delta 360, AthensPattern making, fashion design, textiles, history of fashion and CAD.
- 2020 — nowOwn slow-fashion practiceUnique pieces and embroidered outfits, made in small numbers.
- 2024 — 2025Fashion Instructor · opanda.gr (public sector)Contract post teaching pattern making and sewing on an adult-education project.
- 2023Accessories Designer · Kiddoz Accessories, Athens
- 2021 — 2022Graphic Designer · BeeznessGraphic design for communication and social media.
- 2020 — 2021Set & Costumes · theatre productions
- 2018 — 2020Fashion & Graphic Designer · Double OutfittersLogos, labels, accessories, prints, production and social media.
- 2018Graphic Designer · Gr-SetDigital projects, sublimation and all-over print techniques.
- 2017Graphic Designer · Polystamp
Training & studies
- 2024 — 2027MA Graphic Arts & Multimedia · Hellenic Open UniversityIn progress.
- 2014 — 2018BA · University of Central MacedoniaCreative Design and Clothing — Fashion Designer.
- 2022Professional Pattern-Making · Athens Fashion ClubOne-year programme.
- 2023Shoemaking · Nikolas GermanosDesign, production and construction of three pairs of shoes.
- 2021 — 2022Styling · AKTO College · Arts & Education · Easy Education
- 2021Fashion Business Fundamentals · Athens Fashion Club
- 2020Pattern making · Draping method · Creative portfolio
- 2021 — 2022Panteion University · two one-year specialisationsEducation for people with special needs; positive psychology and adult education.
- 2022Centre of Prevention & Consulting · City Unity CollegeArt therapy, art for people with special needs, music therapy.
- 2019C2 English · NOCN (ESOL International)