Umit Benan

Umit Benan was born to Turkish parents in Stuttgart, Germany in 1980 and brought up in Istanbul. He studied at boarding school and university in Lausanne, Switzerland and the US. After his graduation, Benan started his career as a film-maker, but quickly transferred his interest to a career in fashion design, partly inspired by his clothes-manufacturer father. Benan worked with famous designers in New York and Milan. In 2009 he settled in Milan and launched his own fashion brand. In 2010, he won the Who′s on Next /Uomo contest at the Pitti Uomo in Milan. In 2011 he worked as the creative director of Trussardi′s menswear and womenswear. His first womenswear collection was praised as one of the best of the season in the inaugural issue of Style.com. Benan currently focuses on his own menswear line in Milan.

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