Elena Strongyliotou

Elena Strongyliotou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus into a family of the largest shoemakers in the country. At the age of 17, she left Cyprus to study fashion design at St. Martins College and then Cheltenham’s College of Art. After she had graduated, she worked for two years with Mark Boham (Dior’s designer) for the Hartnell’s House of Haute Couture.

She returned to Cyprus in 1991 and established her own company under her own label, Elena Strongyliotou, creating wedding dresses and evening gowns. With her unique style (modern yet luxuriously elegant) and attention to detail, she managed to set herself apart, identified as a serious haute couturier.

Her collections have been characterized by Fashion Insider as “feminine & explosive,” and each collection presented is finished in exquisite craftsmanship and detail.

Elena was awarded Fashion Designer of the year 2006 by the readers of Madame Figaro magazine in Cyprus.