Eleni Chasioti is a Greek-born, London-based writer and dress researcher. She has a background in Archaeology and Art History. Trained in archaeological sites in Greece as well as several years of experience working in a contemporary art gallery in Barcelona, Spain, Eleni has always tried to discover human stories, feelings and emotions hidden within material culture and everyday objects.
Back in 2019, she felt that her personal mosaic of human history and biography, as seen through the lens of archaeology and modern art, was incomplete; an examination of fashion and clothes seemed to be the bit that was missing. Since then, fashion studies have given her access to a well-informed view of history, autobiography, collective memory, the past and the future. A research and archiving contract with Centre for Fashion Curation (CfFC), University of the Arts London, fired up her love for archives and preserving anything that’s dress and memory related.
Eleni has a keen interest in Greek regional dress and immersive curatorial approaches; her research methods as a practitioner span from museum visits and academic texts to video, photography, and creative writing. She holds a master’s degree in Fashion Curation from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
She is currently writing her first book The clothes Anatolian Greek refugees wore: items to bring with when fleeing in the 20th century that will be published in 2025-2026 by Lived Places Publishing.