Monday, December 7, 2009

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Witches and fairies Umit Unal


It is not unusual coming from the Doors, the shop Ümit Ünal workshop in Istanbul (Tunel Sokak Ensiz, 1B), the music is that of Antony and the Johnsons.
His clothes seem to be created for women suspended in a magical aura, a little 'witch and a little' do. Ümit but now denies. His life follows the fashion. The magic is in life and not outside of it, is in tears, in music, true love, in destiny (for one of his collections was inspired by the Fates). The magic is in the beauty that goes beyond the exterior to understand the depths of the mind and passions of the heart. Antony also said, alluding to the music flowing as we speak, is the magic of life.
Thus, the fairy touch of her clothes do not aspire to the dream, but emerge from the lived reality. Ümit Ünal sedimented in things like the signs and try to translate that into his style. Fashion designer? prefers to define an archaeologist in search of details of the past, vintage materials, colors dull, dusty, forgotten ... not by chance that the last collection was inspired by the Amish community in Pennsylvania where the lifestyle is still in the nineteenth century .
Ümit Ünal started to write his letters thread sewn onto the fabric at the age of eight years next to his father at work. It does still leave traces on his clothes craft, with the basting stitches loose. It is his way of communicating. In a world where everything is produced and consumed quickly, hoping that his clothes made for prêt-à-porter cure his long haute couture, to help recover and to go along with the slowness of time, the 'unique to Ümit leads to what is true and deep. On the walls of Doors, in the hangers of clothes, left his beautiful drawings and little messages to the reader. On a large table, pomegranates, bread, pears, small flowers speak of a daily life that Ümit, runs there, there, in the embrace of a long love of the consolidated mutual understanding. Working with him, in fact, a small community made up of talented family members and dear friends. Downstairs is their cuisine. Doors, Ümit is a place whose doors are open for all to browse and get to the heart of the people. places are important to him. It recognizes that his fashion, often as a modern metropolitan istanbuliota has a soul. Istanbul is a city that runs toward the future, but the huge load of his past opposition to join the fold and live. Similarly, innovative forms of his creations are dressed in old colors. And then keep going. When he meets a woman on the street wearing his dress, sitting at a table in a bar sipping a cup of tea at that time felt the success of his work, because her dress is a really entered into the life, as any one thing, like a smile, food, a gust of wind ...
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( The Gazette Istanbul, Year XVII, November 2009, n. 11)

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