May, 23rd, 2013

Istanbul | BURÇE BEKREK | SS13

Burçe Bekrek is one of the most aspiring upcoming fashion designers of Turkey. Within two years she developed an unique signature style for modern designs with a focus on clean cuts, excellent fit and high quality fabrics. Serenity and minimalism are the core foundation throughout Burçe Bekrek´s design process. She is focussing on the simple pattern of a garment and is refining it with her remarkable details. By designing unique, functional, tailored and high quality pieces of clothing she aims to create an outst anding yet simplistic look. The wearability of her outfits are an important purpose for Burçe Bekrek as she wants her collections to accommodate the lifestyle of the women wearing them.

Born in Istanbul (1983), Burçe Bekrek graduated from Istanbul’s Marmara University (2005) – Faculty of Fine Arts, Textile and Fashion Design with an honors degree. Bekrek then went on to relocate to Italy to study the Image Consultancy at Istitu to Marangoni, Milan. Later deciding to stay on at Istitu to Marangoni to follow a masters program in Fashion Styling. Meanwhile, she worked at the projects for D&G and DSquared2. Upon completion of the Master of Fashion Styling, with honors, she moved back to her home town of Istanbul to take up the role of trend and concept advisor – working alongside her father at “Burce Textile”, a family-owned textile company. Meanwhile she has worked as designer and as commercial stylist for a leading denim company again, based in Istanbul. In 2008, Burçe received Fashion TV Turkey’s ”Most Promising Fashion Designer” award and started to work as an Instruc tor at Yeditepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, Fashion and Textile Design Department. Bekrek has been teaching “Fashion Styling” since 2008 and in 2012 she also started to teach at "Art and Design” department. As a freelancer, her commercial fashion designs were used by major br ands such as Porsche, Audi and Bentley – for the Au toShow fair. In December 2010, Bekrek established her own br and ”Burçe Bekrek” and launched the first collection “Intro/Versa Fall 2011” at her new s tore in Nisantasi, Istanbul. With her first collection, she has shown at catwalk-show which has been organized in Netherl ands Netherl ands Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey. And she has also been nominated in the Elle Style Awards Turkey for the Young Designer. More recently, in July 2012, Bekrek showcased her latest ”interleave- Spring Summer 2013” collection at MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK BERLIN.