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ERDEM AKAN: WHERE DESIGN TALKS ACTIVISM

Like his home city Istanbul, where thoroughly modern ideas and traditional practices exist side-by-side, Erdem’s philosophy is based on the tension between opp...

OKHTEIN: THE YIN AND YANG DUO OF FASHION

Egyptian design duo siblings Aya and Mounaz Abdelraouf launched their brand Okhtein – meaning, appropriately, "sisters" in Arabic – because of their vision to ...

RUMISU: USING SILK AS A DRAWING CANVAS

Turkish sisters Pinar Yeğin and Deniz Yeğin İkiışık are the creative minds behind Rumisu, a joint design project that invites everyone into their “whimsical wo...