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Love Letter no:3, Collecting fabrics

Love Letter no:3, Collecting fabrics

The inspiration behind collecting fabrics and making bags;I spent my childhood exploring how to respect different and original stories. Coming from a family with identities of different countries made me ask myself the same inquiry on and on.Where is the home, where do we belong? I was thinking a lot, and of course what people think about it.One part of my family is half German, half Italian, the other part has Spanish origin.We grew up in a house where culture and traditions were mixed and more than two languages ​​were spoken. Growing up with my twin sister, who was always...

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Love letter no:2

Love letter no:2

From Ordu, Turkey   Thinking about sustainability,   We have had an inquiry in our mind lately.  We are talking about a sustainable life, sustainable designs, even FASHION.  So, isn't there a mistake somewhere when we explain "sustainability"?    Last week we talked about slowing down. We have mentioned the period we live in pushed us to be slow. Our creative processes slowed down. We are experiencing that we can reflect the insignificance of the seasons to our processes. While the seasons are disappearing with climate changes, the world still goes to Pre Fall, Fall Winter, Resort, Summer Spring. In other...

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Love letter from Ordu, Turkey

Love letter from Ordu, Turkey

As a result of the uncertainty and fast lives we live in, maybe you are resisting the environment brought by today, you want to understand. You may be trying to skip the days we are in and be forced to keep up with the situation. As we pass through the same situation, we continue to travel slowly, stay where we are for a long time and observe the surroundings. We continue to travel, collect inspiration and materials.Our processes may have slowed down a lot, but weren't we escaping far from the fast life anyway? We have been in Ordu for a while. We...

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Gita's Handbag lockdown diaries

Gita's Handbag lockdown diaries

Two months in Turkey. For the first time not traveling at all. As you know our slogan is travel, collect and re-design. Three months spent very well and productive in Sri Lanka. We experienced working with locals especially with women who have so little words to communicate with.    An inspirational island. Handloom traditions, delicious food, lots of friends from all over the world. Good music, good taste, hidden places to discover. Well designed corners and unexpected touches. Still in our mind and heart. We were planning to launch our collection from Sri Lanka earlier in May. But some of the plans didn't go as planned.  We had...

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