Iοulia Stavridou was born and raised in Serres. She studied painting, scenography and costume design at the École National Superieure des Beaux Arts and the Conservatoire du Theater in Paris. She created the sets and costumes for many important films in collaboration with great directors, such as Pantelis Voulgaris ("Petrina Chronia", "The jersey with No. 9", "Acropolis", "Everything is a road"), Lakis Papastathis ( "Theofilos"), Thodoros Angelopoulos "The meadow that tears",