The internationally regarded fashion designer, Hussein Chalayan, was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1970 and went to London in 1982 when he was 12 years old. The Turkish Cypriot dreamt to be a pilot or an architect in his early life, turned to be a renowned fashion stylish where innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitude to new technology made him an exceptional.
Chalayan was educated both in Cyprus and England. He completed his graduation degree in 1993 from London's central St Martin's college of art and design with an exciting presentation of garments that he buried in the earth before to see how they would decompose and the whole collection titled ‘The Tangent Flows' was later purchased and displayed in luxury designer store in London.
The design lovely man has got inspiration from a wide range of different disciplines, to illustrate, architecture, philosophy, anthropology etc.
In addition to his own label, Chalayan designed three years for New York knitwear label TSE that based on experiments and even abstractions of existing items like meteorological charts were, in a word, elegant. His clothes are sold in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the United States, Hong Kong and Japan.
Moreover, Chalayan was appointed as the creative director for German sportswear label Puma in February 2008.
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