Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan de son vrai nom Huseyin Çaglayan est né à Nicosia (Turquie), en 1970.

Après des études de design à Londres, il participe en 1995 à un concours organisé par « Absolut » qu’il remporte devant 100 concurrents. Il investit ses 28,000 £ de prix dans la création d’une collection pour la « British capital’s Fashion Week » en Octobre 1995.

Fashion

Hussein Chalayan
He raises daily life to a level of something magical, he was born with these powers and it is a question of whether 50,000 business people are willing to go there with him.

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Hussein Chalayan
What’s different about Björk’s approach is that her ideas in the early nineties were touching on things that most musicians hadn’t touched on before. She made references to things that weren’t related to fashion or music — like nature and poetry and technology — that she kind of introduced through fashion and music.

Vogue 2000-09

Hussein Chalayan
When Hussein was starting out, in ’93, he had just come out of school and nobody knew who he was and we would meet for coffee and talk about his shows for three hours like lunatics.

Vogue 2000-09