When Mehmet Isik emailed me saying he was a fashion student from Turkey, I took a look at his work and said 'Student?!  You havin' a laff?'  Actually that's the way it goes when I get emails from supposed 'students' whose work tends to be impressive beyond what their student status says... it's all one big conspiracy...they're actually amazingly big designers in their respective countries and I just don't know it.  Students indeed...

In all seriousness though, what I'm trying to say is that fashion student doesn't really mean that they've got lots to learn and that they're not putting out impressive work.  Student shows every year are getting more and more intriguing for me and I'm probably going to have start my own compendium of names just to remember everyone.  Mehmet Isik is 23 yrs and old and hails from Istanbul in Turkey.  Other than that, I only have his work to go by which is a structured parachute or parachuted structure let loose in a collection.  Full of volume that is reined in in some way in the garments.... ignoring the billowing plastic bag action going on.  I never tire of designers that have an obsession with shape and form given my own intent in trying to inject interesting shapes into my own outfits so if Mehmet continues in that direction, I'm guessing he'll be upgrading from MySpace to a proper site soon enough...