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Hussein Chalayan is a Turkish Cypriot, born in 1970. His name was originally Huseyin Caglayan but he changed it to Chalayan. He was an only child, his parent separated, his mother remaining in Cyprus and his father going to London. Hussein joined him there in 1982 when he was 12 years old. His father, whose name is Ata, has since remarried.

Chalayan did not consider designing clothes initially; he wanted to be a pilot or an architect. He very nearly studied architecture but changed his mind at the last minute and joined St. Martins School of Art, London. His degree show in 1993, was received with elation

It was displayed in the windows, by Browns, the store which has started so many young designers including John Galliano. His collection was made with fabric which he had buried in the garden with steel filings to give an aged look. He had tried to put magnets on the catwalk to pull out steel rods in the garments, but it didn't work. Even though it was a radical design, the collection had commercial pieces which sold immediately.

In 1994, he presented his first

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Hussein Chalayan - Biography

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Hussein Chalayan is a Cypriot-British fashion designer known for infusing intellectual concepts into his designs. Hailed to be one of the most experimental and innovative designers in the contemporary era, he has created designs that include airplane parts, garments resembling furniture and a robot dress loaded with Swarovski crystals. Renowned internationally for his futuristic and intellectually stimulating designs, his works have been displayed in museums such as the Palais du Louvre, London’s Design Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. Born to Muslim parents in Cyprus, he grew up in an era marked by political turmoil and violence. His family moved to England when he was a young boy when the situation in their homeland became unbearable. He studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and impressed the fashion fraternity with his graduate collection titled "The Tangent Flows” which was bought in its en

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the past, not deeming it commercially viable. In 2001, the designer

was left "devastated" after Tom Ford - then creative director of

Gucci and YSL - chose to work with Stella McCartney and Alexander

McQueen - rather than him, as Gucci Group's new acquisitions. "We

met up a few times in posh restaurants," he told the *Sunday

Times* in June 2011. "They started a business plan, but then

dropped me a like a hot potato and started talking

to McQueen and Stella [McCartney]. I was

devastated. Tom doesn't even know that. It really killed me. He

told me I was too avant-garde. I thought 'Tom you are so wrong'. He

looked at it in too obvious a way."

His contribution to the fashion industry has been widely recognised. In June 2006, he was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire and the London College of Fashion named him an honorary fellow in July 2011.
Chalayan's work has been worn by the industry's boldest dressers - from Bjork, who chose his work for her 1995 European tour; to Lady Gaga, who in 2009 steppe