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Timeless designs reflecting today's and tomorrow's fashion and standard features between women meet in oil portraits of fashion designers. The timeless approaches of women who define life from the perspective of emotion and logic, like timeless designs, are emphasized in the portraits. The endless energy of women is embroidered with red, and their boundlessness with blue.

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ISTANBUL (TR) - The similarities between timeless designs that shape the newest trends in fashion and women brought fashion and painting together at a common point. The canvas and fabric collaboration, which started with adapting the fringe ideas of the crazy painter Salvador Dali to fashion designs, inspired fashion designers. Fashion designer Simay Kışlaoğlu, one of the fiercest advocates of timelessness in fashion, defines timeless designs through the versatile character of women in the oil-painted portraits she signed.

Stating that she emphasized the functional features of the “less is more” trend accelerated by the pandemic with her portraits of women's versatility, Simay Kışlaoğlu said, “Timeless designs with the 'less is more' approach in fashion, just like women, complement the identity of consumers with the richness they contain. Timeless designs prevent wastefulness, which does not allow standardization created by the fast-moving consumption trend. Women, who act as a balance element in the family, in business life, on the street, and in every aspect of life, have the power to manage life wisely with their deft hands. They know very well where to let go of their instincts and emotions and where to put logic into action. As the representative of aesthetics and simplicity that come together in timeless designs, they have the power to manage time very well. I reflect the common features of women and timeless designs in fashion with different faces in my portraits. The women in my portraits are the voice of timeless designs.”

Reflects the similarities between women and timeless designs

Pointing out that timeless designs define elegance with their free, comfortable, simple and plain lines in the minimalism style, Fashion Designer Simay Kışlaoğlu said, “Women draw the framework of their own freedom in the world they create with their instinctive impulses and sometimes with their logic. As with timeless designs, every line on women's faces makes them special. While women with different identities shape the lives of different people with the power of their labor, timeless designs prepared with the power of labor, not industrial machines, also bring this function of women to the fashion industry. In my oil painting portraits, which I have signed inspired by these similarities, I deal with the innocence of women's nature from different angles with the concepts of freedom, self-confidence, spiritual wealth, peace and love. By combining the energy of red with the vast freedom of blue, I describe women's endless energy and boundlessness.”

A call for support for art and artists

Mentioning that she aims to transform her portraits into exhibitions, Simay Kışlaoğlu said, “I have no difficulty in delivering my timeless designs, which I developed as an artist, to fashion lovers. However, it is not so easy for a painter to present their works to art lovers. It expects to be supported by people and brands. For example, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean's drawings, which Andy Warhol transformed into pop-art in the 90s, were revived thanks to Versace. For similar initiatives to occur in Turkey, more exhibitions must be organized to support young artists. The support we give to art and artists can accelerate the birth of new brands that provide added value to our country.”