Hussein Chalayan (* 1970 in Nikosia, Cyprus) is a Turkish zypriotischer mode creator and concept artist.

Life

The son of a Turkish zypriotischen family completed its Design study at the Londoner "cent ral pc. Martins college OF kind and Design". Since 1982 it lives in the British capital.

Its completely unorthodox, very experiment-joyful artistic bringing out convinced the specialists from the art scene and from the mode industry equally, so that he was booked for several international exhibitions in museums and two years one behind the other 1999 and 2000 the title "designer OF the Year" the British Fashion Awards carried off.

Since 2001 it participated with own shows in the   Porter mode weeks" in Paris. One year later, 2002, he brought his first gentleman mode collection out. In April it opened its "Flagship net curtain" as an entrepreneur in Tokyo.

Exhibitions, - participated

• Retrospective Hussein Chalayan in the art museum wolf castle (15 October 2005 - 5 February 2006)
• "10 years work" - first large solo exhibition in the museum Groningen/NL April until September 2005
• "Airmail Clothing" in the de la mode palace you Louvre" in Paris
• Biennale in Istanbul
• "Radical Fashion" in the Londoner "Victoria & Albert Museum"

Honors

• "Kindist into residence" at the Wexner centers (State University OF Ohio) 2001/2002
• "Designer OF the Year" 2000 the British Fashion Awards
• "Designer OF the Year" 1999 the British Fashion Awards

Literature

• Barbera van Kooij and Sue on van the Zijpp (Hrsg.): Hussein Chalayan - essay Caroline Evans et al., NAI publication., Rotterdam 2004. 191 S. ISBN 90-5662-443-1

Related links

• Retrospective Hussein Chalayan in the art museum wolf castle (15 October 2005 - 5 February 2006)
• Museum Groningen April until September 2005 first large solo exhibition
• Konzeptionalist at the dividing lines between mode, art and philosophy (the time 24 April 2003)

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