Olga Paparidou

Olga Paparidou was born in Athens, where she currently lives and works. She studied biology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Alba Graduate Business School of the American College in Greece. Alongside her main studies, she attended intensive fashion seminars at Central Saint Martins in London, as well as in Athens in private training workshops.

She started experimenting with making accessories and in the process created her own clothing brand called Blanket Lo. She then collaboratively created the clothing and accessories business Akira Mushi based in Athens.

As part of the S+T+ARTS workshops organized by the Onassis Stegi, she taught the concept of reuse in the workshop titled “Fix Don’t Buy”, constructing together with the students and with each of them individually a shoulder bag from their existing clothes.