Floats A 'Turkish Spring "made its way into the world of fashion

  Florence, Italy - Meeting in Florence Pitti Uomo 84 men mid-June mode, as expected, many European participants. Even more surprising was projecting Asia: The 870 Japanese customers are the second largest foreign contingent, and China, South Korea and countries in Southeast Asia have all increased participation.

In view of the East / West mix, it was normal that Turkey, straddling Europe and Asia, the host was a special exhibition of the work of seven designers. As protests in Taksim Gezi Park propel the country on the international stage, many say that young people in the mall, which can replace the park drive a renaissance opposite in the Turkish fashion.

A section? Given that Turkey is a young country. The average age is 29, compared to 37 in the U.S., 40 in the UK and 44 in Italy. In addition, a number of designers is studied back and forth and have lived abroad and now again to mix the Turkish culture with new influences.

These factors contributed to a "Turkish Spring" culture during the last decade, which affects not only fashion, but also the visual arts and cinema. Meanwhile, opened new modern and contemporary art fairs such as Istanbul museums and up to eight times more Turkish films were produced annually in comparison to the 1990s, in recent years. Own Fashion Week in Istanbul started nine years ago. Young Turkey less consumption and more on the creation.

"Turkey has a new generation of designers who studied abroad for many years, which are now mixing and harmonizing Eastern and Western cultures," says Tahsin Ozerden, husband of designer Elif Cigizoglu who do not participate Pitti because this time was pregnant. Cigizoglu studying in France and the U.S. and worked as a designer at Donna Karan in New York City. In 2007, they launched their own line Istanbul although it is still high fashion in New customer York.

In an e-mail, Cigizoglu stated: "Turkey has been in textile production for a long time, and Turkey is the leading producer in most high-quality textile products is preferred by many global brands as a textile manufacturing center. distribution. "she agreed with her husband that this tradition, more fresh inspiration from the outside, the head of the Turkish designers a new vision.

At the Istituto Marangoni in Milan - Similarly, Zeynep Tosun, whose mother is a knitwear designer and whose grandmother is a tailor who studied abroad and then worked with Italian designer Alberta Ferretti. Four years ago, she returned to Istanbul to start his own label. Now designs haute couture and prêt-a-porter, shown at London Fashion Scout window for the last three years and sold in Milan, London and Istanbul.

Tosun decided millennium, the prospects of the West. "I'm just getting the clothes I want to wear what I want to be because I about big love [clothing] most", she said, "the collection's unisex and I like mixing different concepts to [clothes] stronger, make the most dominant woman. "

Sisters and Pinar Deniz Yegin, the founder, who specializes shown in rumisu scarves, both lived and studied in the United States for six and 10 years. The silk and cotton scarves give elements of traditional Turkish and Ottoman design, modern playful touch.

They started with cotton voile scarf that Turkish Women picking cotton or working the soil. "We really ran with it and upgraded all the way and put it into a format that could be on the beach as a sarong", Pinar Yegin "said And use us old techniques -. Traditional headscarves are oya fed by [Turkish Tips] are used to decorate the edge of the scarf, your talent to show craft But instead of floral motifs, we used the Ottoman numbers with humor, which is very unusual, because in Islam, you never use numbers -.. No pets, no people , no eyes "

Deniz Yegin adds: "They are funky and funny, because in one corner of the scarf, there is an Ottoman imperial and other other side is a harem woman with big breasts, and the ladies who made them - that are also traditional - first were shocked. because they laughed. "