EHKİB Fashion Design Competition Winners Announced

Winners announced in EİB Fashion Design Competition, organized for the 16th time this year by Ege Hazırgiyim ve Konfeksiyon İhracatçıları Birliği with support from the Ministry of Commerce, to meet the designer needs of Turkey's fashion industry and create opportunities for young, innovative designers. Hasan Hüseyin Çanga won the 16th EİB Fashion Design Competition with his design titled Gentle Prototype. Eda Polat came in second with her design THX 1138, while Burak Günel took third place with his design Wanderlust. With the support of jury member Arzu Kaprol, Birce Avcu received the Silicon Valley Special Award for the bio-materials used in her design titled Re-Contact, earning the right to complete a two-month internship under the Wearable Technologies Coordinator at the Silicon Valley Design Clustering Center. The top 10 finalists presented the collections they developed under the mentorship of Özlem Erkan with İzmir Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü, choreographed by Öner Evez. EHKİB Social Organizations and Competition Committee Chair Tuğba Hazar stated, "We set the theme of our 16th EİB Fashion Design Competition as contact-less due to the pandemic's impact. For the first time this year, our competitors designed Spring-Summer collections for both women and men. All entries were highly successful. We extend our thanks to the Ministry of Commerce for its contribution to our event, to the Turkish Exporters Council, to our competition mentor Özlem Erkan, to İzmir Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü which undertook the sewing of the collections, and to everyone who contributed." Ege Hazırgiyim ve Konfeksiyon İhracatçıları Birliği Chair Burak Sertbaş said, "With this opportunity we are giving our young people, we are starting from the very foundation of the circular textile process. Sustainability begins this way. Together with our youth, we will surpass even more boundaries. As long as we have such brilliant young people, this sector will never end, and we will continue to conquer the world." Turkish Exporters Council Chair İsmail Gülle said, "Our design competitions have brought tremendous value to the sector. The fashion designers who are our country's pride today emerged from these competitions. I congratulate Chair Burak and his administration for the work and dedication where young people are realizing their dreams."

Who are the jury members in the EİB Fashion Design Competition?

The jury of the 16th EİB Fashion Design Competition, mentored by Fashion Designer Özlem Erkan, included EİB Fashion Design Competition Committee Chair and Jury Chair Tuğba Hazar, Fashion Designer Arzu Kaprol, Fashion Designer Özlem Kaya, Fashion Designer Simay Bülbül, Fashion Designer Tuana Büyükçınar, Fashion Designer Çiğdem Akın, Fashion Designer Niyazi Erdoğan, Fashion Designer Murat Aytulum, Fashion Designer Belme Özdemir, Fashion Editor Anıl Can, İzmir Fashion Designers Association Chair Esin Özyiğit, and Maseksport Company Representative Mert Telyas.

EİB Fashion Design Competition Finalists:

AYCAN ASİYE BAYRAK BİRCE AVCU BURAK GÜNEL EDA POLAT HASAN HÜSEYİN ÇANGA İZEL SANDIKÇI MANOLYA YALÇINKAYA NUR GÜNGÖR SEDEF BİRİCİK SELİN SUDE YAVUZ

What are the awards in the EİB Fashion Design Competition?

First Place Award TRY 18,000 Second Place Award TRY 13,000 Third Place Award TRY 8,000

International Education Scholarship Award

Award-winning designers will have the right to study at prominent fashion schools around the world for 2 years with the support of the Ministry of Commerce.

EİB XVI. FASHION DESIGN COMPETITION

Contact. The most important thing that connects the world within a person to the world outside. The human spirit, through this, touches the universe… And with each touch, the fingerprint left carries the person's identity along with their story. Life has been advancing through digital world tools that have settled at the center of our lives during the pandemic period for a long time. Education, social, cultural and work life are now nourished by phones, screens, emails, video conferences. We are somehow communicating with our communities in every field, but are we really seeing each other? Despite all the benefits of the digital world that eliminates distances, the privilege of being physically in the same space and sharing remains our greatest longing. Are we really touching, are we really making contact with life? For 15 years, EİB has been creating an awareness platform by giving Turkey's young designers the opportunity to present themselves and contributing to the development of the Turkish Fashion Industry with the new values it brings to the sector. The concept of EİB's 16th competition brings these questions to the forefront.

CONTACT-LESS!

Contact-less presents the reality of digital contact with billions of people through technology rather than physical touch as this year's new playing field for fashion designers. New digital realities we are waiting for include environments simulated with technologies that will experience the concept of mixed reality by adding touch to visual and auditory reality, Avatars that will be our new digital identities, the rise of bio-materials and the creation of a biophilic design world, the transformation of the concept of sustainability from a concept to a vital necessity, and a reinterpretation of business world, wealth, prosperity, success, politics, and economic values in a way that will prioritize individual satisfaction and pleasure concepts… A completely different world is forming before us.