Agis Panayotou

Agis Panagiotou is a Greek Costume Designer based in Athens, with a career spanning more than three decades across feature films, television, stage productions and audiovisual projects. His work focuses on the visual identity of characters through costume, helping establish period, social background, personality and atmosphere while supporting the broader visual language of each production.Panagiotou studied at the Stavrakos Film School of Athens between 1989 and 1992 and went on to build an extensive career in Greek cinema and television. His early credits include Black Milk (1999), followed by productions such as Straight Story (2006), The Wedding Party (2008), Empirical Data (2009), Christmas Tango (2011) and Magic Mirror (2016). His work has covered a wide range of genres and production styles, from contemporary stories to projects requiring carefully researched period detail.His collaboration with the visual arts has also extended beyond conventional feature filmmaking. In George Drivas' Empirical Data (2009), a video installation produced by Blonde Audiovisual Productions in co-production with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Panagiotou was responsible for the costumes.A significant part of his career has involved international co-productions. For Blind Sun (2015), Joyce A. Nashawati's Greece-France feature film, Panagiotou was responsible for costumes. The film, set against an oppressive heatwave in a water-stricken Greek seaside resort, was produced by Blonde SA, GLP Production and TBC Production and had an international festival presence.In 2019, Panagiotou worked with acclaimed director Costa-Gavras on Adults in the Room, taking responsibility for Costume Design. The film, based on the events surrounding the Greek debt crisis, featured an international cast including Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Valeria Golino and Ulrich Tukur. His Costume Design credit is officially listed by the European Film Academy and the film's production company.His international television work includes the Apple TV+ series Tehran, where he was part of the costume department alongside head costume designer Deborah O'Hana. His participation is credited in the production's costume department for episodes filmed in Greece.Panagiotou has also maintained a strong presence in Greek television and commercial productions, working across different periods, genres and production scales. His long experience has made him particularly suited to productions in which costumes need to work not only individually for each character, but also as part of a coherent period and visual environment.For Rififi, the COSMOTE TV / Tanweer Productions crime series directed by Sotiris Tsafoulias, Panagiotou served as Costume Designer across all six episodes. He worked as part of the production's wider visual department alongside Production Designer Mihalis Samiotis and Art Director Myrto Daskaroli. The Thessaloniki International Film Festival officially credits him for Costume Design, while the complete series credits list him as Costume Designer for all six episodes.The work on Rififi was particularly demanding from a costume perspective, as the series required a consistent visual identity across its characters and environments. Costume becomes an important storytelling tool within the period and crime-drama setting, helping establish the world of the characters while maintaining continuity throughout the six-episode narrative.With a career connecting Greek cinema and television with international productions, Agis Panagiotou has built an extensive body of work in Costume Design. From Blind Sun and Adults in the Room to Tehran and Rififi, his credits demonstrate a sustained ability to work across contemporary and period settings, different genres and productions of very different scales, always using costume as an essential part of the visual storytelling process.