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Hussein Chalayan Biography

Fashion designer

Hussein Chalayan, born on August 12, 1970, is a renowned fashion designer of Turkish origin. His design style is unique, blending high-tech elements with fashion, and he is hailed as a pioneer in the contemporary fashion world.

Thinking Feelings Fitting

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“I came to London when I was a year and a half for four years. Since then I have been back and forth. I do mostly feel like a Londoner: I enjoy the Angle-Saxon acceptance of difference and I feel it's more of an integrated society than most places. But this is in London, not the rest of the UK.”

Enjoy Acceptance Integrated

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“London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.”

Scene

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“My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.”

Interest Fashion Designer Admiring

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“I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.”

Thinking Trying Interest Architecture

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“Technology is the only means through which you touch on new things.”

Mean Technology

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“Istanbul is one of the most incredible cities in the world, and a must - see as much as London, Paris, or New York. It's the past, present, and future, and a city where you never know what will happen from one minute to the next. It's also a melting pot of so many cultures from that region which is so often homogenized by the nation-state.”

World Past Culture Incredibles Pot Past Present Past Present And Future

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“It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.”

Important Film

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“My furniture is banal and my house is pretty empty. The hardest thing to find is a sofa that is comfortable and looks good. The ones I like are never comfortable.”

House Empty

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“I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.”

Wish Appreciate End Times Spend Time

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“I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.”

Parent Creative Architecture

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About the Author

Born: August 12, 1970
Known for: Fashion designer
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