The Core is the sector of the IFCO trade show where each season the collections of a coherent set of emerging and research-based Turkish designer brands are presented. IFCO's aim with The Core is to discover them to the public and to support and promote their commercial activities. Every season the selection of brands featured on The Core always attracts great interest from the visitors' audience. But it is also an 'opportunity for buyers of prestigious Turkish and international stores, to find and present later to their audience new talents, new original and exclusive aesthetic proposals.
This SS25 season, over 20 designers brands will present their latest collection in The Core @ IFCO hall 7. Among these brands we present: Arzu Kaprol, Meltem Özbek and Tuba Ergi̇n
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ARZU KAPROL
Photo courtesy of Arzu Kaprol
Arzu Kaprol made her name known in the fashion world thanks to the prestigious Beymen Academia "Avant-garde Designer" award. In 2011, she started to organize fashion shows in Paris Fashion Week, Fashion Federation Official Calendar and opened her office in Paris. Turkey's first holographic fashion show was held in May 2015, with a multidisciplinary approach; Digital Symphony, where design, music, dance and technology meet. Defining design as clothing architecture, Arzu Kaprol makes references to the fashion culture of the future by creating timeless clothing and accessories with a modern and unique design language and original workmanship that grows in the details that are identified with her.
MELTEM ÔZBEK
Meltem Özbek has graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University “International Relations Department” in 2006.She participated in the “2010 Koza Young Fashion Designers Competition” organized by ITKIB and won the first prize in the "Leather Category". Özbek, who completed the "Design Realization" program at “London College of Fashion Center” for Fashion Enterprise with the scholarship of ITKIB in May 2012, then she started the process of creating her own brand identity in this period. Also she continued her professional work in a leather company.
TUBA ERGIN
Tuba Ergin completed her high school education in Chicago, USA and studied fashion design at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2010, she founded her own brand Garden Of Denim Design; "G.O.D.D." and participated in Cph, Premium, Who's Next and White trade shows. In 2013, she created the brand "Tuba Ergi̇n" and actively participated in Istanbul Fashion Week. She collaborated with Desa brand and prepared "Tuba Ergin for Desa" capsule collection. As one of the 7 Turkish designers selected by Italy Vogue and Leather Promotion Foundation, her collections were published in L'uomo Vogue and Vogue Italia magazines.
The Core @ Istanbul Fashion Connection (IFCO)
August 07 - 09, 2024
Istanbul Expo Center
Atatürk Caddesi No: 5/5 - 34149
