Günseli Türkay

Günseli Türkay graduated from the Department of Economics at Middle East Technical University in 1999. During her education, she worked in the sales team of Zara. It became a good experience for her to learn fashion retailing. She continued and completed her fashion study at Accademia Italiana in Florence. During her study in Florence, she worked with an Italian fashion design office, which gave her a chance of working with several Italian brands. Türkay then worked with Mudo as a menswear designer. Mudo has more than 30 shops all over in Turkey, so that she had a great experience not only fashion design but also marketing, visual merchandising and retail sector in general. She also took classes at Mudo Academy for 6 months. In 2003, Türkay started designing for Mexx in Istanbul. In 2004, she opened a fashion design office “Pasaj Istanbul Design Studio”, aiming to establish a fashion design office in Turkey with an international design team, which can offer different tastes to different customers. Pasaj Istanbul Design Studio currently gives the services of consultancy for branding and collection design to the brands and exporter manufacturers. Türkay also started to work on her own brand “Günseli Türkay”. She launched her first collection at Istanbul Fashion Festival in February 2007 and Galata Moda, which was organized by Istanbul Fashion Designers Association.

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