1. What’s your inspiration?

My collections are inspired by a theme that comes to me as I start to plan. This might be a ethnic style or look, sometimes even just a small flash, a look or idea which I work to create a concept.

 

  1. You also work abroad. What’s the biggest challenge for a fashion designer that wants to work in another country as well as Greece?

This is not an easy question to answer. You need time and patience to develop contacts, to feel the market and to create goods, trusting relationships – which come about as both parties successfully complete everything that has been agreed.

 

  1. Where we can find your “pieces of art”?

I have my own retail shop in Athens (8 Efroniou Street – 11634 Athens). I also supply various customers abroad, in Germany, UK, Russia, Kuwait, Netherlands, USA, Canada, Belgium and the Caribbean.

 

  1. Are you an optimistic? Do you believe that Greece will – finally – see the light in the end of the tunnel?

Well, no Greek can help feeling disappointed by all that’s happened to us over the last few years. But I am optimistic – I believe we are a resilient from all that’s happened. We must learn to work to international standards. We have a long history behind us!

 

  1. Your personal secret of “having a great time”?

I enjoy my work! Of course I also love to hang out with friends.

 

  1. If you could give advice to a young person who wants to leave Greece and work abroad, what would you suggest?

That’s a hard question and will depend so much on the individual, what their background qualifications are, and what their long-term goals are. Personally I completed my education in the UK, so that’s what I know most about, and I travel to fashion shows there and customers as well. I studied in a city that was the center of the textile industry from very early days (Bradford) and moved to St Martin’s School of Art for postgraduate studies in London. So I was lucky to benefit from the wonderful cosmopolitan influences in a great city like London, after a proper grounding in the fashion industry in the north.

 

  1. Your favorite Greek island, restaurant, a hotel that made you feel at home?

As I’m from Peloponnese, I enjoy that area most of all – there are islands off Peloponnese which particularly attract me, such as Elafonissos.

 

  1. Your next business goals are?

To improve my international sales, both for my own benefit and to spread the influence of Greek fashion everywhere.

 

  1. Greece is a place for summer holidays….or it’s something more than that?

Certainly it’s something more than that. Greece is a philosophy, a way of looking at life. Of course we all love the summer in Greece, but who can forget the great philosophers, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, actors etc still working across the globe in top positions.