Adopting the modern luxury concept, Dilek Hanif is appreciated by Turkey's well known names with her attractive and sophisticated style. By improving her position in the international arena, the designer also aims to represent Istanbul's lively and creative spirit through fashion. In Dilek Hanif's collection making references to Ottoman-style intensive by using a combination of Turkish and Armenian motifs and representing 'modern global fashion', the silk, and lace, organza and chiffon decorations are also included.
In the interview that we, as Tekstil Dünyası Media Group, made with famous designer Dilek Hanif, she made important statements about the fashion industry and her own designs. Saying that she creates innovative designs by keeping the points of inspiration, Dilek Hanif stated that she does not do any distinction among the women for these designs as one of the basic principles. Therefore, emphasizing that all women feeling Dilek Hanif's woman style with her style and personality can find themselves in these designs, Hanif continued her speech as follows; ''Dilek Hanif's woman style does not represent a woman who copies the style used for fashion shows or advertising campaigns , on the contrary, this style represents a confident woman's profile who can combine her life style with the pieces standing out in the season. ‘’.
‘I Create Timeless Collections’
Expressing that she determines a theme for each collection and prepares the collection within the framework of this theme, Hanif stated that each designs includes its own features even though the sources of inspiration and collections change. Hanif; "First of all, I believe that my designs are timeless. I imagine to create clothes that do not change according to the season trends but can be combined with them, or that you may present your grandson 30 years later. My main sources of inspiration are the stories of this land where the civilizations are intertwined and its cultural and historical wealth feeds us. Sometimes with traces of Anatolian civilizations, sometimes with the Ottoman motifs.’’. Pointing out to the fact that she does not make a special distinction daily for personal clothing, Hanif added her speech that she likes to wear designer pieces with the combines of ready wear clothing brands.
‘Style Icon Is Not in Turkey Yet’
Making statements about the fashion conception of Turkish Men and Women, Hanif said that women are more interested in fashion than in the past, and there are many women who follow the world fashion trends. Hanif stated that: “For me, the first rule of 'Having a Style' is self-confidence. Besides, some people apply all the trends offered by the temporary fashion movements unconditionally make such selections because of lack of confidence. I can say that the women who can make brave selections, do not fear of going beyond the conventional line of the society in terms of clothes and can express themselves with their dressing styles have style. When we evaluate all these criteria together, unfortunately Turkey has no style icon yet. Yes, we are more interested in fashion according to the past but we have a long way to take in creating a style icon.”
Stating that there is not a specific fashion designer that she takes model or gets inspired by in her designs, Dilek Hanif concluded by saying that she follows the trend analyses explained about 2 years before each season and she takes her inspiration from the figure of CocoChanel with her character and revolutionary designs that she introduced to the fashion world.
