Word: kocabiyikoglu
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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...
...look at than your feet in this ancient city, although the poorly maintained sidewalks and snarled traffic do explain why freewheeling Istanbullus?as locals here are known?prefer to get around by boat when they can. Newly reinvigorated by a burgeoning young population of trendy, extravagant professionals like Kocabiyikoglu, Istanbul is suddenly the focus of luxury-goods purveyors looking to expand in what up to now has been a small market. Fendi has three retail doors with a fourth on the slate, Louis Vuitton is expanding its small store on the Asian side of the Bosporus next year, while Dolce...
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...
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