Crocheted leather at Berlin fashion week
Germany-based fashion label Issever Bahri will showcase its crocheted leather apparel pieces at Berlin Fashion week, from 6 July, 2011.
Derya Issever and Cimen Bachri met while studying fashion in Berlin and their mutual backgrounds as the children and grandchildren of immigrants brought them together.
Their label Issever Bahri combines a German design approach with an emphasis on construction and precise pattern-cutting with handcrafted techniques from their heritage lands, Greece and Turkey.
Ms Bachri found a set of handwork samples her mother did as a young girl, and one piece inspired one of the label’s signature looks: form-fitting garments made from crocheted thin strips of leather. The team even recruited Ms Bachri’s mother to help out with the crochet hook to produce garments for their collection.
Their designs have resonated stronger with buyers outside Germany, but Ms Issever says that forced them to make a push. “If Berlin had immediately said, ‘Yeah!’ and all the shops bought us, we never would have spread our wings to other countries,” she said.
