Lakis Gavalas was interviewed by OK magazine and Giorgos Prasino, who revealed that he wants to retire.
“Now I’m doing my paperwork to retire. My best man, Agnes, is putting together my papers so I can get 850 euros. When she told me, I asked her “per day?” and she replied “the quarter”,” he noted.
In fact, she confessed that she would like to present a TV show with Fanis Lambropoulos: “When I went to the famous Mykonos, I didn’t go there to party. I made a tasteful house with small Cycladic windows, the swimming pool that ‘went’ into the rooms, and the columns that hugged the house. So I made a house inspired by Delos and Venice. To put small stones around, I brought in an expert Rhodian and got permission from the then Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri that I could transport these stones from Rhodes.
I was an all-rounder back then, I had 80 international fashion houses and brands that I introduced, I had three stores in Mykonos, a multi-culti one where I pioneered houses like Dior, Valentino, Fendi, I had the Greek Lak, more economical, for the youth and one at the airport with housewares for villas,” he pointed out and continued:
“I remember that I had furnished – for free – the office of the director of Mykonos airport at the time and I had decorated the VIP waiting room with very expensive Italian furniture. Ryan O’Neill spent several hours there with Farah Fawcett on his way out of Mykonos,” he said of his “golden” years in Mykonos.
“The parties started to thank my guests and colleagues, later they became gigantic. I also had parties at the Kifissia house, but in Mykonos, where I would bring down twenty truckloads of food, furniture, bring David Morales and Tsilichristos to play music – Morales would then go to Cavo Paradiso to play. I was the then Scorpios and Alemagou!
I didn’t drink anything when I was tired, at 3.00am I went for a three-hour nap and when I woke up at 6.00 in the morning, I would eat with my 20 close friends a pot of soup that I had prepared in advance and asked my cooks to prepare,” said the famous designer.
She was asked: “Don’t you feel there is a Lakis show missing from Greek television?” and replied, “When people talk to me, they say ‘congratulations on your speech and your speech’, not ‘you are funny’. I think I could have a show on Greek TV and it bothers me (which I don’t have). But maybe I don’t, maybe I scare them… What would I like? If I had a show, with lifestyle elements, with Fanis Lambropoulos and we had a conversation.”
