Studio Venus believes that fashion can make your life brighter and that everything you need to express your style already exists; you just need the vision to see it.
Through a highly curated selection of sustainable, stylish, yet affordable clothing paired with styling tips, Studio Venus helps people unlock the hidden possibilities in every second-hand piece.
Beyond the clothes, Studio Venus is hub for fashion and art lovers alike, offering an exciting lineup of talks, workshops, exhibitions, and parties.
We’re dedicated to making secondhand shopping a practical and thrilling alternative to fast fashion, one that invites everyone to explore their style and identity, celebrate sustainability, and rethink how they consume fashion.
Studio Venus challenges the status quo by building a community that transforms fashion into a force for positive change, rather than an exploitative agent.
To us, Modern Gaze means new perspectives. It is the lens through which we will look at every one of our endeavours. Considering new audiences, new experiences, new mediums and new emotions. Challenging the status quo through a more creative and empathetic vision, imagining new definitions of success, growth and collaboration.
Studio Venus will work with communities of consumers, designers, artists, suppliers which give and take from each other in an equal manner. Concretely, if we take inspiration from a community for a project, we will make sure to empower them through that same project. If we ask our audience to give us their time or money, we will make sure that we are rewarding them for it with more than just another product for them to buy.
Did you know that 80% of any product's carbon footprint is locked in at design stage?
A lot of brands are struggling with keeping up with the sustainability standards they agree to on paper. That is because for most of them, sustainability is always an after thought. At Studio Venus, our entire ethos is based around sustainability, from our original concept to where we source our products and who we employ as our partners.
Fascinated by fashion and drawn to spatial and narrative design, Elisa Ghysels studied set design and immersive environments at Central Saint Martins, then worked as a creative director and set designer for numerous high-fashion brands.
While creatively fulfilled, Elisa grew uneasy about the industry’s sustainability issue. Elaborate sets and entire venues were built for fleeting events, averaging a 7-minutes duration, only to be dismantled and discarded. She explored sustainable production methods, repurposing materials and designing for reuse, but soon realised her clients favoured greenwashing over real change.
Elisa’s discomfort grew Fashion Week after Fashion Week, witnessing endless new collections and garments destined to add to the fashion industry’s unsustainable cycle. Elisa decided she no longer wanted to participate in promoting clothes the world didn’t need. Already committed to a secondhand wardrobe herself, she saw an opportunity to reimagine secondhand fashion as desirable and accessible.
This vision inspired Studio Venus which aims to elevate preloved fashion and make sustainability a celebrated part of a redefined fashion industry.
