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Hussein Chalayan
Cypriot fashion designer
Hussein Chalayan, MBE, RDI (; Turkish: Hüseyin Çağlayan[hyseˈjintʃaːlaˈjan]; born 12 August 1970) is a British-Cypriot fashion designer.
He has won the British Designer of the Year twice (in 1999 and 2000), and he was awarded the MBE in 2006.[1]
Chalayan is currently teaching at HTW Berlin.
Early life and education
Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia in 1970 and graduated from the Türk Maarif Koleji secondary school in his hometown.[2] At that time, the population of the island was divided because of the constant struggles between the Greek and Turkish authorities.
Ethnic conflicts between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities eventually led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and led to human right abuses towards civilians on both sides.[3][4] For this reason, Chalayan and his family were forced to move to England in 1978.[2]
After attending Highgate School,