Greek-born Ellie Tsatsou is a freelance photographer and filmmaker, currently based in New York. After completing a BA in Communications in her homeland, Athens, she went on to study an MA in Fashion and Film at the University of the Arts, London, from which she graduated with a distinction.
Ellie's research interests focus on the aesthetics of avant-garde art of the 20th
century while her personal projects explore and cherish togetherness,
wilderness, kindness and intimacy. She has collaborated with and worked
for Ryan McGinley, Nick Knight, Marie Schuller, Christopher Thomas Allen, Alice
Hawkins, Julie Verhoeven for Chloé and Melissa, and Topman among others,
while her projects and contributions have been featured in SHOWstudio.com, LOVE and Dash
magazine.
Tsatsou currently focuses on a range of different personal and
commissioned projects in between NYC, London and Athens, aiming to identify and
portray freedom, honesty and affection.
Ellie let us pick her brain, sharing with us her personal style, current fashion obsessions, inspiration and more:
Fashion-Pixel: What is your personal style when it comes to dressing?
Ellie Tsatsou: I like patterned fabrics, pastel colors, black trousers and washed out jeans. Patterned shirts have a prominent role in my wardrobe as well as monochrome cotton long-sleeve blouses and high-waisted trousers. I like to be dressed minimally but with a twist of painterly color and embedded nature.
F-P: What is your favourite colour?
ET: I’ve grown to love all the colours really but at the moment, I tend to prefer blue and white.
F-P: Which designer do you admire?
ET: Phoebe Philo- she has a mellow breeze that reminds me of summertime.
F-P: Do you have a piece of jewellery that means a lot to you? What is it? If you want, tell us why is it so important to you?
ET: I’ve got a ring that my mother has recently given to me and which I wear ever since. It is made out of three rings, one silver, one gold and one bronze, and I like to think that it is our family bonded together. She is the gold.
F-P: What are you going to buy next for your wardrobe? Where from?
ET: A long and lean jeans with flared legs from Gap, in baby blue color.
F-P: What is your favourite outfit?
ET: I favour anything that makes me feel comfortable in my own skin and imagination. It really depends on my mood too. A patterned shirt though never fails to make me feel nice.
F-P: Do you usually buy clothes from your trips abroad?
ET: I would usually, yes.
F-P: What piece would you place in a fashion museum?
ET: I am not sure how to answer this. Since I tend to see clothes as the most intimate things we put on our bodies, I can’t really feel or experience them when in museums. But maybe jewellery or hats could impress me in such a context.
F-P: What is a key item that all wardrobes should have?
ET: Blue jeans, white shirt.
F-P: Would you like to live in another era?
ET: Many people have told me that my physic looks like it has come out of the Renaissance era, but I am pretty fine where I am now. I kind of like our era- it can still be tough and romantic at the same time, and it is a turning point. We see things we had never seen before.
F-P: What inspires you?
ET: Elephants, dogs, my brother and father, the seas of my homeplace, the poems of E.E.Cummings, Ryan McGinley, New York, my jazz drummer, trees, orchids, the colours of Basquiat, the kindness of Julie Verhoeven, mangos, driving at night and the open, wide roads.
F-P: What
is your favourite material to use?
ET: My camera and then watercolours.
ET: My camera and then watercolours.
F-P: What
is your fashion fetish?
ET: I am not sure if it is a fetish but I like reddish-burgundy, plum lips.
ET: I am not sure if it is a fetish but I like reddish-burgundy, plum lips.
F-P: What
is your latest fashion obsession?
ET: Earrings and ear cuffs.
ET: Earrings and ear cuffs.
F-P: How
do you determine what is chic?
ET: The lightness of a feather is very chic to me. And flamingos.
ET: The lightness of a feather is very chic to me. And flamingos.
F-P: Is
there anything else you would like to share with our readers?
ET: Maybe ‘Voyagers;- it is an inspiring little story of humans.
ET: Maybe ‘Voyagers;- it is an inspiring little story of humans.
All images courtesy of Ellie Tsatsou©. Video: Chloé©
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