Brief Overview: - So its that time once again where we must travel to the vibrant city of culture and fashion to choose our final collections for the Spring/Summer of 2025 at the Paris Fashion Week and the shows of Curate and Tranoi, and as well as catching up seeing what is new with the designers and brands that we carry at Jacu, such as Umit Unal, MiiN, Moyuru, SOH, La Vaca Loca and La Haine Inside Us and possibly introducing some new project collaborations. Starting with our old friend and college the beautiful man that is Umit Unal.
Our Final Buying Trip @ Paris Fashion Week Curate - September 2024 (Part 1 - Umit Unal)
So its that time once again where we must travel to the vibrant city of culture and fashion to choose our final collections for the Spring/Summer of 2025 at the Paris Fashion Week and the shows of Curate and Tranoi, whilst popping into the fantastic Cube Showroom. In this blog of multiple parts we shall be talking about our trip to Paris where we shall, in various shows and showrooms, be meeting up with some friends and fellow fashionistas, and as well as catching up seeing what is new with the designers and brands that we carry at Jacu, such as Umit Unal, MiiN, Sort Aarhus, Xenia Design, Moyuru, SOH, La Vaca Loca and La Haine Inside Us and possibly introducing some new project collaborations. Starting with our old friend and college the beautiful man that is Umit Unal.
Talking of Parisian influences, one of our favourite brands is Umit Unal or as some have said before the "Turkish Yves Saint Lauren" who will be showing us his new collection at Tranoi...
Established in 1992 in Istanbul, international exhibitions and sale offerings of the brand's collections started in Istanbul and Dusseldorf. Henceforth, the masterwork has regularly been celebrated buy fashion buyers from the fashion centres in Dusseldorf, Paris, London and New York City. the creations of designer Umit Unal, dedicated to personal collection design, project and fashion consultancy his clothing draws inspiration from the rich tailoring traditions of the Anatolian region. Infusing an androgynous flair with a touch of gothic sensibility, Ümit Ünal's designs from a view of creating real silhouettes taken from life as the prime tenet shape-wise, with the most special techniques belonging to the past, remembering and interpreting new male and female life postures into monochromatic coats, knitwear and trousers that seamlessly integrate into the modern urban wardrobe with that handwoven sense of craftmanship. The fashion sense has a stance far from flashy shapes. It frees itself with a shape closer to thoughtful narratives of contemporary art, music, and design
“I assign a new identity to all details related to the tailoring that I was introduced to in my childhood by small sartorial ateliers squeezed into narrow streets.”
