When the designer Dilara Findikoglu signs on to Zoom on a recent evening, she’s dining at an outdoor restaurant in her hometown of Istanbul with a friend from high school. While she’s based in London, her high-drama, Victorian-meets-Goth fashion line is produced here, and the Central Saint Martins graduate has spent the past couple of weeks between meetings and visits to the workshop. But tonight, she’s relaxing with a margarita that she lifts into the frame of her phone’s camera.
Findikoglu has plenty of achievements to commemorate—her eponymous label has experienced a meteoric rise since it debuted in September 2017. She showed her first collection at a strip club and her second at a church, prompting conservative American radio host Alex Jones to call the presentation a “satanist orgy.” In the most literal sense of the phrase, her line is a cult favorite—among underground club kids and celebrities alike.
Today, Findikoglu launches her first swimwear collection. The 30-year-old designer took her fanciful couture creations—adorned with ruffles, pleats, and all kinds of embellishments—and shrunk them down to bikini, rash guard, and one-piece size. Standout pieces include a corseted bathing suit with ribbons to tie around the thighs and a black bikini with gold chains.For the lookbook, Findikoglu tapped director Yorgos Lanthimos to shoot images of models straddling jetties on the coastline.
Exactly. I started thinking about this when lockdown started last year. I was like, what I make is beautiful but not everyone can wear a black Gothic Victorian dress on the street. Plus, rather than covering the body, right now we’re taking all the layers off—we’re removing weight off of our shoulders, and off our minds as well.When I first started, I wanted to be out there making people see my world and understand what I had in my mind.
I went through all the stages, from emo to Goth, and I tried to be a little punky as well, listening to Good Charlotte and stuff. Notpunk, but you know, teenage punk. I used to wear loads of stripes, and I couldn’t go out without my studded belts. My friends and I called our studded belts “security belts” because they gave us self-confidence. If we went to a rock bar and we didn’t have that belt on, we would feel really insecure.Not that many people dressed the way my friends and I did.
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