VCUarts Qatar welcomes Ayse and Ece Ege, founders of luxury fashion brand Dice Kayek, to give a lecture “Crossing Boundaries” on April 3, 2018 in the VCUarts Qatar Atrium.
Dice Kayek was launched in 1992 by sisters Ece and Ayse Ege and over the past two decades has built a reputation for its carefully curated universe, one in which tradition combines with modernity, film, art and personal memories to inform its designs which are inspired by architectural lines to build strong, structural silhouettes.
After almost two decades since Ayse and Ece Ege founded Dice Kayek, they felt the urge to go beyond the temporality of fashion and look deeper into their primal source of fascination: Istanbul, an indefinable city belonging neither to the West nor to the East, blending the wisdom of traditions and a flair for modernity. Characterised by its magically coexisting contrasts, they were wondering how they could translate Istanbul’s rich architectural, cultural and religious diversity into couture.
In 2013, Dice Kayek won the Jameel Prize 3, an international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic traditions, for its Istanbul Contrast exhibition, which was hosted by the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Read the full article in Marhaba.
Image cover: Portraits by Serdar Bilgili (left); Haghia Sophia dress by Dice Kayek. Credit via Marhaba.
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