Born in Athens in 1978, Angelos Bratis grew up in his seamstress mother’s atelier before enrolling at the Veloudakis Fashion School in Athens. He gained his master’s degree at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, formerly known as the Arnhem Fashion Institute, in Amsterdam. He then worked as an assistant to Couture Houses in Paris and Rome until his return to Greece in 2005 to establish his design studio. In 2011, the designer’s career and renown were boosted when he won the “Who Is on Next?” competition, founded by Vogue Italia’s Franca Sozzani and designer Silvia Venturini Fendi and AltaRoma.