In 1991 is the year when Sofia Lapihou makes her dream come true, creating together with her sisters, Maria and Georgia, a fashion store in the city of Giannitsa under the brand name “Aperto”, at 17 Apostolou Louka Street. This store will immediately become a pioneer and synonymous with high aesthetics and quality for the entire city and the surrounding area.
That attempt will take its first steps by choosing some of the biggest names of international designers and brands of the time, at a time when the overall fashion market was changing in our country, Greece. The goal of the dynamic team has always been to offer fashion products of high aesthetics and quality, thus educating the woman customers of the local market. This effort met soon a great success and thus a large loyal audience follows it, year after year
Great commercial success and satisfied customers provided a strong momentum, which the family group used to transition into the new millennium. While the number of partnerships was increasing the need for useful commercial space was increasing too. Thus, in 2000, the store was transferred to a privately owned store and developed under the “shop in shop system”, innovative for the time. Team’s effort was even more intense by giving even more attention on product’s selection, but above all to respect the personality and uniqueness of each woman who trusts it. Team’s effort was even more intense by giving even more attention on product’s selection, but above all to respect the personality and uniqueness of each woman who trusts it.
Entering the third decade of the store’s life, fermentations and changes are coming to our commercial activity. In 2010, Sofia Lapichou continues her career as a store owner independently and the name of the store changes to “InFashion Boutique”. However, nothing changes in terms of its basic principles: choosing high quality fashion products and total focus on high level service, always with sincerity and excellent value for money.
The selections of Sofia Lapichou are starting to expand covering also a wide range of large sizes, with a strong insistence on the natural qualities of raw materials, in order to offer clothes that the woman’s body loves even with the sense of touch. Clothes that every woman loves to wear every day!
Environmentally aware Sofia Lapihou continues strongly in the new era, also supporting sustainability in fashion so that we all enjoy a healthier planet. Its selections are now enriched with ecological raw materials, both in the clothing fabrics and in the knitting yarns, while ecological and compatible treatments complete the final finishing of the products.
Its latest creation, the website www.sofialapihos.gr, completes yet another transition, this one to new technology and to give it greater access to the global market, without limits.α.
31 years of experience and the journey continues….