FAMOUS LEATHER DESIGNER BÜLBÜL AT İZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS
Fashion Designers Association member Simay Bülbül told about her success in Derisigner Leather Design Competition, which she wins since 2003, and she told the steps towards branding. The designer that can create many different textures and surfaces encouraged the young fashion designers to use leather with the sample clothes and leathers she brought. Bülbül stated that she was using sheep leather in different colors and textures and showed how leather integrated with different materials like chiffon, cotton, knitting in her designs. Bülbül said that she was not following the current fashion trends in her designs and said, "I love to clothe not the bodies but the spirits with conceptual designs I develop with a spiritual story and internal journey. That is why I do not care about the fashion trends but timelessness and differences.”
Head of Department of Fashion Design Şölen Kipöz, who brought famous designer Bülbül together with the students said, “With her distinctive viewpoint and experimentalism Simay Bülbül redefined leather as a fashion material in a time when Turkish fashion design was in the death agony. Seeing the things that can be done with leather broadened the students' horizon."