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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hussein Chalayan
MBE is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer who graduated from
Central Saint Martins in 1993. Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia in
1970 and graduated from the Turkish Maarif College of his hometown. He
moved with his family to England in 1978,obtaining British citizenship.
He first studied for a National Diploma in fashion and clothing at
Warwickshire School of Arts, and proceeded to study Fashion Design at
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. His graduate
collection in 1993, titled "The Tangent Flows", contained clothes which
he had buried in his back yard and dug up again. An instant sensation,
the whole collection was purchased and displayed in luxury designer
store Browns in London. In 1995, Chalayan beat 100 competitors to clinch
a top London fashion design award