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Castaneda_Jose Breskin_Danya Mohamad Younes Hussein Chalayan is a Turkish cypriot, born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1970. His name was originally Huseyin Caglayan but he changed it to Chalayan. He was an only child, his parent separated, his mother remaining in Cyprus and his father going to London. Hussein joined him there in 1982 when he was 12 years old. Chalayan is an internationally regarded fashion designer who is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitude to new technology. he was educated both in cyprus and england, at london's strict highgate boarding school. in 1993 he graduated from london's central st martins college of art and design. he caused a sensation with his graduate collection - decomposed silk dresses he had buried and exhumed. since then he has produced more than 20 collections and twice been crowned british designer of the year (1999, 2000). chalayan is inspired by architectural theories, science and technology. he famously produced a collection which included chairs and tables that became garments. he has been involved in numerous international exhibitions, including ‘radical fashion’ at the V&A victoria & albert museum in london (1997), ‘fashion’ at the kyoto costume institute in japan (1999), ‘airmail clothing’ at the musée de la mode palais du louvre in paris (1999), the istanbul biennial (2001) and 'godess: the classical mode' at the museum of modern art in new york (2003). chalayan has also designed costumes for opera and dance performances. hussein chalayan represented turkey at the 51st art biennale in venice (2005). he was awarded the M.B.E. (member of the order of the british empire) in the 2006 queen's birthday honours list for his services to the fashion Industry. His clothes are minimal in look, maximal in thought. His work challenges what you can do with a length of fabric. He rethinks the body and challenges the concept of zones of the body. He tries never to make his clothes sexy. He does not want them to be attractive in that obvious way. He uses a lean sinuous silhouette, great attention to detail and fabrics liked felted wools, double-faced cashmere, and matt jersey. There is often a darkness to his themes, vampires, tombs and constriction have all featured in his collections. However, overall his clothes are innovative, exquisite and technically brilliant.  =These are some of designs.= media type="youtube" key="DCaKdtpgy1s&hl=en" height="355" width="425" media type="youtube" key="g3gZZCm6Thg&hl=en" height="355" width="425"

=Chalayan's Robot Dress= Hussein Chalayan's transformer dresses at the Paris Fashion Show Looking to the future to express how fashion changes throughout history, [|Hussein Chalayan] created six mechanical dresses that would transform from one era to another, using embedded technology and smart wires, for his runway show at the //Paris Fashion Week//. The robotic dresses, which took six months to create with the help of the film special effects wizards of 2D3D, are not part of his new collection, but Hussein expressed that he wanted to collaborate with a technology company to make such transformations a reality. The girl walked in and stood stock-still, dressed in a long, high-necked corseted Victorian gown. Then her clothes began to twitch, move, and reconfigure of their own accord. The mono-bosom top opened, the jacket retreated, the hemline started to rise, and—finally, amazingly—there she was, wearing a crystal-beaded flapper dress: a woman propelled through fashion history from 1895 to the twenties in the space of a minute. This was one of six incredible feats of technology and conceptual commentary at the heart of Hussein Chalayan's show. The others also moved through decades—one from the hourglass Dior New Look to the Paco Rabanne metal-link shift. Hussein Chalayan closed his Spring/Summer 2007 collection with a dress of white shear fabric, that wound itself up into a hat, leaving the model wearing nothing but a heels and a smile. media type="youtube" key="uTFl0rNNQrY&hl=en" height="355" width="425" media type="youtube" key="U_Tm_w5aODE&hl=en" height="355" width="425"