Myrto Peristiani is a London-based Image Maker, Fashion Stylist & Art Director studying Fashion Image and Promotion at Central Saint Martins. Her work explores identity, representation and body politics, examining how systems regulate and discipline bodies and how fashion imagery can be used to renegotiate power, visibility and authorship.
Driven by an interest in agency and lived experience, Myrto’s practice draws on critical approaches to visual culture informed by thinkers such as Michel Foucault, to investigate how power operates through clothing, casting and image-making. Through intentional casting, narrative-led styling and the subversion of familiar fashion archetypes and institutional dress codes (including military aesthetics, workplace uniforms and sportswear), she works from within these structures to conceptually undo them - visually disrupting imposed identities around gender, race and embodiment.
Working across editorial and moving image, and moving between conceptual research and hands-on customisation, Myrto develops character-driven projects shaped by diverse visual references. More recently, these have included the magical realism of Bird by Andrea Arnold, the intimate portraiture of Ruven Afanador and Peter Hujar, and the contemporary subversion of stereotypes in the music and visual world of Mustafa the Poet. Her work maintains an empowering tone, creating space for subjects to reclaim how they are seen and understood while inviting viewers to reconsider how bodies are framed, controlled and interpreted within contemporary visual culture.
Myrto is increasingly expanding her practice through photography and moving image.