![]() Önümüzdeki sezonun ayakkabı trendlerini özetleyecek en güzel laf "uçlarda" olur. Evet 2007 İlkbahar-Yaz sezonunun ayakkabıları uçlarda gezip, ya çok yüksek topuklu ya da dümdüz olacak, orta topuklu ayakkabılar ise bir süreliğine unutulacak diyor, sizleri raporumuzla başbaşa bırakıyoruz. ![]() |
![]() Uzay Çağı: Yirmibirinci yüzyılda yaşamamıza ve büyük bir hızla ilerleyen teknolojiye rağmen kıyafetlerimizin bir türlü uzay çağını yansıtmadığından şikayetçiyseniz 2007 İlkbahar/Yaz modasında karşımıza çıkacak olan 'Uzay Çağı' trendi tam size göre. ![]() |
Bosphorus Boom
![]() Source: TIME Magazine December 6, 2006 Istanbul has become the latest luxury destination as a generation of free-spending, energetic entrepreneurs give the ancient city a modern edge. Brands like Fendi and Dolce & Gabbana are catching the buzz, eager to set up shop in the gateway to the East On weekends, the line at Istanbul's Mangerie, a hip rooftop restaurant with views over the Bosporus Strait, stretches three stories down the stairs toward the street. On a recent Sunday, Defne Kocabiyikoglu, 28, a design consultant, and her boyfriend, Baran Baran, 30, a motion-graphics animator, were settling into a Turkish brunch of kasar cheese and sesame-sprinkled simit pastries and expounding on the fashion constraints of the city. While Kocabiyikoglu can get any clothes she wants—favoring fashion-forward labels like Roksanda Ilincic and Tina Kalivas, which she buys online and mixes with local finds, she points to her Chanel ballerina pumps and adds wistfully, "I'd love to wear higher heels, but you just can't. Have you seen the state of the sidewalks?" ![]() |
Istanbul sets its sights on fashion heights
![]() Source: Monsters and Critics July 24, 2006 The fashion world has long taken advantage of Turkey's skilled, cheap labour - gratefully but with condescension. Turkey's apparel industry is tired of toiling in the shadows, though. In recent years, it has been working hard to revamp its image by promoting young Turkish designers and creating its own labels. ![]() In the industrial belt around the city, producers of clothing for overseas designers are looking for ways to stave off cheaper competition from the Far East. In the centre of the European part of the city, meanwhile, Turkish designers are busy. ![]() |