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...WEEKENDS, THE LINE AT ISTANBUL'S Mangerie, a hip rooftop restaurant with views over the Bosporus Strait, stretches three stories down the stairs toward the street. On a recent Sunday, Defne Kocabiyikoglu, 28, a design consultant, and her boyfriend, Baran Baran, 30, a motion-graphics animator, were settling into a Turkish brunch of kasar cheese and sesame-sprinkled simit pastries and expounding on the fashion constraints of the city. While Kocabiyikoglu can get any clothes she wants?favoring fashion-forward labels like Roksanda Ilincic and Tina Kalivas, which she buys online and mixes with local finds, she points...
Originally from the capital city of Ankara, Kocabiyikoglu and her boyfriend had been living in London but chose to return to Turkey because, she says, "I felt it was pointless to be Turkish if I was going to miss out on Istanbul again becoming a city of the world. Many things are beginning here, whereas in London it is all very developed." Her dream is to open a fashion boutique with her sister Basak, who is currently an assistant buyer at the London specialty store Browns...
...start something right before summer break, so I waited. Earlier in the fall, I made overtures (not explicit) to ask her out earlier this year, but she always replied with “I’m busy this weekend, maybe next.” She now has a boyfriend who goes here. Needless to say, finding out about that kind of broke my heart. As it stands now, I’m happy as long as she’s happy, but there’s a part of me that hopes that someday I might have a chance...
...lucky to even stay friends if you start acting like a jerk around this girl. No matter how much it might feel like you’re shooting yourself in the foot, you’ve got to suck it up and be honest about the boyfriend when you meet him. I’m not saying you have to go overboard with compliments, but a sincere “he seems really nice” is the right way to go. Of course, if he seems like a total tool, don’t feel like you have...
...slate for Sundance 2031 is looking promising. SOFIA COPPOLA, 35, the first American woman nominated for an Academy Award for directing and the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, just had her first child with boyfriend THOMAS MARS of the French rock band Phoenix. The couple named their daughter Romy, after Sofia's brother Roman. Romy joins a Coppola clan that includes actors Nicolas Cage, Talia Shire and Jason Schwartzman. Expect some mighty slick birthday videos...