YOUNG DESIGNER PRINTS IN İZMIR
IUE Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts and Design Prof. Dr. Tevfik Balcıoğlu pointed out that the exhibition in which different projects like, motorcycle, earthquake homes, kids’ wear and new brand designs took place, brought a new design perception to İzmir, and said, “We hope and wish our students that come out of an education perception in an interdisciplinary approach that is fed with creative, inquisitional and constructive projects would be more and more successful in the professional life. In this context, what makes us happy is to bring in new professionals in the field of design, to raise young people that carry intellectual and modern values and that interrogate these values and design products that increase the quality of life for the users and who work for a freer, happier and more democratic country”
Department of Fashion Design, which is the first Department of Faculty of Fine Arts and Design said goodbye to its 4th generation graduates by an exhibition that took place after the exhibition. IUE Head of Department of Fashion Design Şölen Kipöz said, “The 4th generation graduates of the Department of Fashion Design that display their perceptions about the environment they live in and their expectations from the future prepare to have a word in the next generation design with their collections under the name “Search”.
IUE Head of Department of Fashion Design Şölen Kipöz evaluated the collections executed by the young member of Fashion Designers Association, Berrin Gönen Luma as “The collections are full of references to consuming madness and the slaying of our environment, the virtual personalities created by our addiction to technology, the potential effects of the earthquake that awaits us, the personal armors created by the modern society. The themes are prepared in the light of the sovereignty war of women against men in 20s and 40s in the “Beautiful Era” of European society, street culture, bathe culture and hamam tradition, desert and African culture and modern architecture.”
Selections from the collections are reflected to the fashion catalogue through the lens of fashion photographer Emre Uzer. In the fashion show prepared by Uğurhan Akdeniz Agency, the clothes are exhibited by famous models like Ahu Yağtuğ, Ece Sükan, Duygu Akdeniz, Ece Tanya, Mine Postacı, Gülsün Durak and Özge Ulusoy. The children that presented the kids’ wear attracted attention too. The night ended after the reception.
Graduate Designers of Department of Fashion Design: Müge Elmacılar, Merve Sepetoğlu, Derya Gürbüz, Gülen Karabağlı, Büşra Edebali, Fulya Civaroğlu, Ayşegül Gürevin, Sinem Kaplan, Cem Candaş, Seyyal Uzluk, Ece Bayol, Elif Şeflek, Melda Güven