The foremost and unique bridal trade fair of Turkey, IF Wedding Fashion Izmir – 6th Wedding Dresses, Suits and Evening Gowns Fair will be arranged between February, 15 - 18, 2012 in Izmir International Fair Centre, Turkey by IZFAS - the strongest Turkish Fair Organisator - in cooperation with the Aegean Clothing Manufacturers Association(EGSD) and Turkish Fashion and Apparel Federation (TMHF).
14.410 professionals from 60 countries visited IF WEDDING FASHION IZMIR 2011 – 5th Wedding Dresses, Suits and Evening Gowns Fair between 16-19 February 2011 held in Izmir International Fair Center organized by IZFAS - the strongest Turkish Fair Organisator - in cooperation with the Aegean Clothing Manufacturers Association(EGSD) and Turkish Fashion and Apparel Federation (TMHF).
The fair was organized totally on 24.500 sqm for only professional visitors. Not only 188 exhibitors made a show of strength with their designs but also the leading world brands such as Demetrios, Oreo Sposa, Terani Couture, Laperi, Sincerity, Justin Alexander and Sweetheart from the U.S.A, Two by Rosa Clara, Aire Barcelona, Almanovia ve Lunanovias from Spain, Marie de Paris and Emelie Costa from France, Cosmobella, New Davud Scot Srl and Salera & Picone SNC from Italy, Enzoani, Tia Bridal, Benjamin Roberts, Modeca and Love in the fair from the Netherlands were represented during the fair.
Participating companies had a chance of making business contacts with buyers from Algeria, Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Libya, Liberia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Mozambique, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunusia, TRNC, Ukraine, UAE, USA, Venezuela, Yemen.
IF Wedding Fashion Izmir once again proved itself as one of the leading exhibitions in Europe not only in terms of allocation, but also the expanded trade volume as being the meeting point of Europe and Middle East for professional visitors.
2nd Wedding Dress Design Contest was organised with the theme of “Today For Infinity” during the fair for gaining young designers to the sector. The first three were Gökhan Yavas, Reyhan Görür and Emir Kirmizi. 15 finalist designs of competition were displayed during the fair. Thus; while the fair gives opportunity to increase business contacts simultaneously it also undertakes the mission of gaining new talents both with their designs and different perspectives to the sector.
Like today’s Turkish world famous fashion designers who started with these organisation taken place in the previous years, it is intended for these young talents to take their place among the worlds leading fashion designers in the following years.
FASHION SHOWS
The inauguration of the exhibition started with a presentation of Simay Bülbül’s extraordinary collection of evening gowns and bridals made of leather combined with chiffon and satin at the special gala night. Gamze Saraçoglu marked the closing of the exhibition with her inspirational designs of pastel colours. The exhibitor companies’ special fashion shows were spectacular, as well.
SIMAY BÜLBÜL “ATTARTI ANA”
“The woman of the magic memories of Izmir where people from different religions and cultures has shared a common life for centuries; the mother of the magician women...A magician who sees and knows all, beyond brightness and darkness, goodness and badness, enjoyment and distress... Things she has seen belong to invisible world. She is the woman who is not only enchantmenting but also transforming... The power that passes our limited conscious beyond time and that carries us to borders beyond and infinity. Magic is within us. Magic is in woman. This is the truth; always!”
THE MOST UNIQUE SYMBOL OF HUMANITY “PAPILA” by GAMZE SARAÇOGLU
Romantic creations’ designer Gamze Saraçoglu, showing her ‘’Papila’’ collection, as the closing fashion show of IF Wedding Fashion Izmir 2011.
Gamze Saraçoglu is inspired by the finger print, that is identified as “Symbol of Uniqueness”, which is the theme of the collection.
The design story of Saraçoglu in “Papila” starts at the 6th month when the baby’s finger print first starts to appear and resumes until the 6th month when we leave the finger print and it disappears. Papila, come to life with the spirit of Saraçoglu by expressing the layers of the finger prints.
Gamze Saraçoglu makes a difference in her collections by specialized hand-craftmanship and uses Papila at the technical details of the collection. Saraçoglu continues to emphasize romanticism by the colors she uses in this season too: body colors, bronze, ecru and citron. Citron, being the most interesting color of this season, also symbolizes conglomeration like Papila does.
Gamze Saraçoglu puts her signature to this season with soft colors by using Papila on collars, hemlines and flounces with embrodiery and printing techniques which is a projection that we would not want to lose during our whole lives and starts to form while we are in our Mother’s Womp.
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