Our Fashion Design Program Student Alara Alarcin's Work "Oriental Breeze"

by Janset Öztemur | May 11, 2021
The work of our Fashion Design Program sophomore Alara Alarcin's work "Oriental Breeze" has been selected to be exhibited at the FIT Graduation Exhibition 2021 - AAS. The work named “Oriental Breeze”, prepared by our student inspired by eastern culture, modern Egyptian and Indian art, consists of a patchwork dress.

Selected to be exhibited at FIT Graduation Exhibition 2021 – AAS, our Fashion Design Program student Alara Alarcin's patchwork dress titled "Oriental Breeze" is inspired by eastern culture, modern Egyptian and Indian art.

Since the purpose of the design, which includes the colorful fabrics brought by the eastern breeze, oriental patterns, geometric shapes and the mystery of shape-color confusion, is to design a recycled product, each piece in the dress is either cut from leftover fabrics from previous projects or from various shawl-like clothing and accessories.

Designs, in which both knitted and woven fabrics are used together, it is possible to see many natural and synthetic fabric types from satin to wool, from viscose to polyester. On the other hand, it was desired to give the dress a more natural and shabby atmosphere by making several different vibrantly colored overlock stitches outward rather than inward. Since the harmony of so many different elements reflects Istanbul and Hagia Sophia, which has a universal value, it was preferred to shoot the design in front of the fascinating Hagia Sophia Mosque.

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İTÜ Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design

Textile Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) is the first and the single one offering textile engineering education in Istanbul, and also comes first among the top textile engineering schools in Turkey. Its history could be traced back to 1955; the year in which the textile division was established in the body of Mechanical Engineering. The school gained its current name and independent status in 1983. Therefore, it is obvious that the Textile Engineering Department is fairly new compared to the history of İTÜ stretching back to 240 years.

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ITU Textile Engineering Undergraduate Program is an accredited program by ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), www.abet.org, (Criteria: General Criteria Only (EAC)). For further information on accrediation of ITU Textile Engineering Undergraduate Program, please visit the following link: https://tekstil.itu.edu.tr/en/education/accreditation/abet