Turkish Fashion: Talent Amidst Chaos | Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2023
- Turkey is a country with a rich fashion history and culture. It is known as a producer country with factories that manufacture the clothes of some of the biggest fashion brands in the world. Despite this, there isn’t much coverage on the fashion scene within Turkey. This documentary focuses on the fashion creatives and professionals specifically in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish fashion designers have to jump over so many hurdles to achieve success - earthquakes, natural disasters, political unrest, a very volatile currency and more - yet, they persevere and see the positives in life.
As a Nigerian that grew up in Nigeria, I have always had an outsider’s view on the fashion industry. Fashion week is glamourised and the most famous shows take place in New York, Paris, Milan and London. Even when fashion history is discussed, the designers mentioned tend to almost always be from Italy, France, USA, or the United Kingdom. It is as though the promotion of global fashion was erased to promote a narrative of western fashion supremacy. This is inherently the problem with the way fashion is covered. The purpose of this documentary is to start a series of films that cover fashion in regions of the world that are not covered extensively by western fashion media. Fashion is a global industry, and the coverage of fashion should represent this. With time, the ultimate goal is to create a space that people visit to watch content about regions that they will not see on any other western media platform.
Huge Thanks To Everyone Featured In This Documentary:
i) Beril Turkmen - Former fashion journalist (worked at Vogue Turkey for over 10 years) | @beril_turkmen
ii) Begum Kiroglu - Jewellery designer and founder of Begum Khan | @begumkhan
iii) Beyza - Bag designer and co-founder of Bera Design | @beradesignofficial
iv) Metin Gursoy - Fashion Marketing & PR Agency founder, Communications manager of Hermes Turkey & Fashion Marketing Lecturer at ESMOD Istanbul | @metin.gursoy
v) Sansim Adali - Fashion designer & founder of Sudi Etuz | @sudietuzofficial
MY E-BOOK (EFFECTIVE WAYS TO LEARN ABOUT FASHION): www.thefashionarchivemag.com/...
SOCIAL MEDIA: linktr.ee/fashionroadman
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exactly the sort of journalism I like to see
Old school run and gun, inquisitive journalism - just the way I like it
When I lived in Egypt I discovered the good design and quality of Turkish goods. A few years later I found out that as you said, Turkey is the # 1 manufacturer of knitwear to Europe. I still have a long knit cardigan from Turkey I bought in Port Said Egypt and the quality is excellent. Turkey deserves to have world wide recognition for their very talented designers and manufacturers. I love the decor of the first Turkish woman you interviewed and the dress the 2nd woman who designs and operates a high end jewelry store.
Huge thank you to everyone that donated to the go-fund me so I could make this project a reality. Words can't describe how grateful I am. This was my final project while studying fashion journalism at Central Saint Martins - i'll be graduating in July. Also a huge thank you to everyone featured in the documentary. I have left their details below & in the description.
Beril Turkmen - Former fashion journalist (worked at Vogue Turkey for over 10 years) | @beril_turkmen
Begum Kiroglu - Jewellery designer and founder of Begum Khan | @begumkhan
Beyza - Bag designer and co-founder of Bera Design | @beradesignofficial
Metin Gursoy - Fashion Marketing & PR Agency founder, Communications manager of Hermes Turkey & Fashion Marketing Lecturer at ESMOD Istanbul | @metin.gursoy
Sansim Adali - Fashion designer & founder of Sudi Etuz | @sudietuzofficial
Good luck!🎉
Well done on the documentary and congratulations on your graduation!
Fantastic! I love how you really brought us into peoples’ homes and shops, and lingered… I felt like I was really getting to know these fantastic, interesting women! Gorgeous shots around Istanbul, they made me yearn to go there again. It’s compelling to think how Istanbul is becoming a fashion educational center for truly fascinating parts of the world that the West ignores. Such rich and remarkable textile/weaving/embroidery histories in all the Central Asian countries… my brain is ignited thinking of all their ikat and suzani techniques brought into modern gear. What a great job Ayo!!! I hope you’re really pleased with your result, and that you get to do more journalism like this!!
So glad you noticed! I wanted the documentary to have a sort of homely vibe that takes you deep into the space of each person.
such a interesting documentary, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Congratulations on this, you have every right to charge us to see this but thank you for sharing the knowledge with us.
Thanks for watching, also not everything is about money haha - I really just wanted people to learn about Turkish culture through the documentary so the more people that see it the better, and I can't achieve that behind a paywall. I'll put the extended interviews on my Patreon.
I honestly think the biggest problem for the smaller fashion weeks is fatigue. As consumers of fashion at the highest level, you, I, all of the people that follow it intently, simply cannot follow another 5 to 10 weeks worth of shows per year. We have so much to get through already, that most people don’t even see everything in the four major fashion weeks, let alone Copenhagen, Tokyo, Seoul, Istanbul, Lagos, South Africa. I know I don’t anymore, I dont have the time nor patience.
Realistically these upandcoming fashion weeks would be better advised to invent their own type of publicity rather than try to copy a system that despite trying is now failing because of fatigue and because of lack of funding for smaller designers. London is currently the most well funded fashion week for small designers, because of all of the different funds and grants, but even there, it’s near impossible to keep a business going profitably.
If these designers, with the major fashion weeks and grants to help promote and finance them can’t stay in business, there are fundamental errors in the fashion week system that need to be solved. If the smaller fashion weeks can solve this problem, they will overtake.
That is true, now that pre-fall and resort are seen as proper seasons too there's just literally no time for these other cities to stand out.
This is a very good point you raised as always! Because now that I think about it, the only reason I follow every show in the major 4 fashion weeks is because I review a lot of the shows but after following the 4 i'm so exhausted I have to take a week break from fashion in general just out of fatigue. So adding more fashion weeks we need to follow can be challenging considering they will probably get limited attention.
Im so proud of you. Literally your going places. I am a black man from Seattle living in Ny.
Big thanks!
This is what people need to see, amazing job man! Putting the spotlight on craft and tradition. If you ever want to see what we do in MX I’d love to host!
I'd love to come to Mexico at some point to film a documentary!
thank u for covering the east and giving us some attention!! the fashion archive pulling thru as always
Always! Fashion is a global industry
Wow, This is so much more beautiful, poetic, Full of history and handcrafted! Much better than western „Dirty“ fashion. I can‘t wait to see more Turkish fashion ❤❤❤
Since you mentioned you were making this documentary, I've been waiting with much excitement!!!😆
Congratulations!!! I'm always looking forward to seeing what else you do x
Incredible work. I love how each of the brands and designers you feature has a strong story behind their work. And you, of course, draw that out of them with excellence.
Glad you enjoyed it! I really tried to get each interviewee to tell the story of Turkish fashion.
i’m so excited to watch yaaaaaaaay
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Kudos to you @Fashion Roadman ! That was a very interesting idea, and also very informative! Cant wait to explore more up and coming fashion cities and their coulture
Glad you enjoyed it!
i cannot thank you enough for exposing me to begum khan. absolutely incredible work!
No problem! I really love her work, she’s amazing at what she does and also a really nice person as well.
@@FashionRoadman i can truly tell. i feel like im being invited into a magical and fantastical forest with her work! thank you so much, again!
Excellent documentary. I hope you can do a new one about fashion industry about Peru, since the materials peruvians use is high quality and has an emporium of textil industry in South America, it calls "Gamarra". Thanks.
This is so interesting! I'll add it to my list for sure.
amazing!
Merci!
Omg your channel is so cool! I’m really getting into fashion journalism because of you.
Thanks for watching & goodluck with your journey!
Woot!! Watching now! Congratulations my friend!!
Merci!
I really enjoyed this documentary , your doing great work!
Thanks so much for watching!
Congrats to you hope you can make more fashion documentaries more often in this channel
Thanks! Hoping to make more soon
Ayo, congratulations for your work! It's really necessary documentaries like this and your content is so helpful and inspiring for the learning of students or anyone; and for an inclusive fashion industry. Amazing documentary really! I wish you all the best!
Glad you enjoyed it!
phenomenal Ayo, can't wait to see whats next
More stuff coming soon! Stay tuned
Thanks for making this video! It was really cool to know more about how the fashion scene is going in other countries! I travelled to Istanbul in 2016 and while I didn't find a lot in terms of fashion, as you say it is an artisanal city with with a lot of beautiful traditional arts and crafts. I wonder if they have any interesting new menswear brands coming up too - since the only Turkish designer I can think of off the top of my head is Umit Benan who started with menswear. Also tell me you did try the lokum there, it's so much better than what we have in the UK - I miss it!
Oh yes! I literally ate my weight in turkish food when I was there haha. It's so good. Also, the Turkish fashion scene is really interesting - there have been a few brands popping up in the past few years.
this is such a cool idea for a video
Such a great documentary
Thanks!
Thanks for the interesting documentaries. I hope you will be able to visit Georgia in the future and introduce outstanding designers to your subscribers. Tbilisi is an interesting city for that.
he rocking the Dickies sweatshirt...it was then i knew Turkey's level of legitimacy was unquestionable
This is fucking insane Ayo, well done mate 🎉🔥
Thanks! Glad you liked it
good morning🌈🌞 cool video🦋
Thanks for watching!
I think the story behind all this are amazing.
Perfect
you are a legend
So are you
(Prior to watching this video) I visited Istanbul last year and seeing the fits genuinely depressed me.
The general style is very bland and this is something that a lot of Turkish people I spoke to said. It's because people don't want to stand out (according to the Turkish people I interviewed) but it's slowly changing.
good video
You should do it in Tbilisi as well
My brother 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Quite Interesting choice @FashionRoadman wonder why you chose Turkey…!?
Because I feel like Turkey is known for fashion in terms of production & having huge factories that make clothes for the biggest brands, however - i've never seen a focus on the actual designers there, fashion scene, fashion schools etc.
Is it the book from James Laver that first woman is showing? I can't see the author's name but it seems so ❤
Begum Khan should collaboration with Schiaparelli.. because same aesthetic they have
This but in South Africa 🕯️
I want to do one in Johannesburg soon! I've already done one in Cape Town
yo can I get an invite to ur discord