CLUB COUTURE — ISSUE 09:
(Zeynep Uysal)
[Turkey]
CLUB COUTURE is a new Apparel Music feature dedicated to emerging talents working across fashion, art, beauty, image making. Designers, Fashion Designer, artists and creatives whose practice sits somewhere between craft, culture and personal expression. The project starts from Milan, telling the stories of our local community and the people shaping it, but always with an open gaze outward. Each issue introduces new artists through short portraits. No hype, just process, taste and perspective.
CLUB COUTURE — ISSUE 09:
(Zeynep Uysal)
[Turkey]
CLUB COUTURE is a new Apparel Music feature dedicated to emerging talents working across fashion, art, beauty, image making. Designers, Fashion Designer, artists and creatives whose practice sits somewhere between craft, culture and personal expression. The project starts from Milan, telling the stories of our local community and the people shaping it, but always with an open gaze outward. Each issue introduces new artists through short portraits. No hype, just process, taste and perspective.
Zeynep Uysal Q&A
Next issue of Club Couture is all about Zeynep Uysal, a designer who refuses to fit in one box. American-Turkish, Milan-based, trained in Product Design, her practice slides between objects, materials, tech, fashion, photography and everything in between. Curiosity and experimentation drive it all: AI, biomaterials, creative direction, entrepreneurship. The result is design that feels current, culturally sharp and actually means something.
-Where are you from?
- Im Turkish American. My roots are Turkish but i was born in the US.
-What kind of background did you grow up with?
- My mom is a math teacher and my dad was an electronical engineer, my household has always been very strict and technical which is why I think my passion grew more in creative practices.
-How did you end up choosing your current practice?
- I didn’t choose, it just came to me. I am very intuitive and always listen to my inner voice, one day that voice told me to go to an italian university consultancy, i went there and found out about the design majors here, next thing i know, I started going to an atelier near by my house to prepare my first portfolio in interior and product design.
-How would you describe your style or your work?
- My style of product design is geometrical, sculptural and fluid. I love working with wood and metal, and want to work with marble in the future. I moved between experimental projects and commercial works that focus on solving the needs of the market. But behind all objects and projects, my main goal is to find a problem to solve or to improve a system.
-What are your main artistic influences?
- I absolutely love david lynch and virgil abloh, their multi disciplinary approach to art and design is exactly how i aim to implement different disciplines in my process.
-What is your relationship with the city of Milan?
- I love Milan, it is the city that shaped who i am. I grew into a real professional and a real artist here. Of course there is a lot of things that needs improving in this city, a lot of potential that is not being used, but I’m not the one to spread negativity. The only point I want to make is creative community should unite more, we are each others support.
Zeynep Uysal Q&A
Next issue of Club Couture is all about Zeynep Uysal, a designer who refuses to fit in one box. American-Turkish, Milan-based, trained in Product Design, her practice slides between objects, materials, tech, fashion, photography and everything in between. Curiosity and experimentation drive it all: AI, biomaterials, creative direction, entrepreneurship. The result is design that feels current, culturally sharp and actually means something.
-Where are you from?
- Im Turkish American. My roots are Turkish but i was born in the US.
-What kind of background did you grow up with?
- My mom is a math teacher and my dad was an electronical engineer, my household has always been very strict and technical which is why I think my passion grew more in creative practices.
-How did you end up choosing your current practice?
- I didn’t choose, it just came to me. I am very intuitive and always listen to my inner voice, one day that voice told me to go to an italian university consultancy, i went there and found out about the design majors here, next thing i know, I started going to an atelier near by my house to prepare my first portfolio in interior and product design.
-How would you describe your style or your work?
- My style of product design is geometrical, sculptural and fluid. I love working with wood and metal, and want to work with marble in the future. I moved between experimental projects and commercial works that focus on solving the needs of the market. But behind all objects and projects, my main goal is to find a problem to solve or to improve a system.
-What are your main artistic influences?
- I absolutely love david lynch and virgil abloh, their multi disciplinary approach to art and design is exactly how i aim to implement different disciplines in my process.
-What is your relationship with the city of Milan?
- I love Milan, it is the city that shaped who i am. I grew into a real professional and a real artist here. Of course there is a lot of things that needs improving in this city, a lot of potential that is not being used, but I’m not the one to spread negativity. The only point I want to make is creative community should unite more, we are each others support.
-If you were a object?
- If i was an object i would be an iconic lighting piece, like the arco floor lamp. I could work when they need me at night, and rest in the morning. Illuminating spaces and being a part of the conversations that emerge.
-If you were a city?
- If I was a city, I would definitely be Barcelona, the sea, music, food and the energy of the people is a lifestyle and feeling I really resonate with.
-If you were a geometric shape?
- If i was a geometric shape I would be a sphere, represents infinity and continuity in my eyes.
-If you were a food?
- And for food, I have to go with sushi, and please don’t ask me which one because I love them all.
-What would be your music for the Couture Club?
- My music for couture club is Polaroïd/Roman/Photo by Ruth. I studied in a french high school for 5 years, and absolutely love these types of songs that evoque mystery and emotion.
-If you were a object?
- If i was an object i would be an iconic lighting piece, like the arco floor lamp. I could work when they need me at night, and rest in the morning. Illuminating spaces and being a part of the conversations that emerge.
-If you were a city?
- If I was a city, I would definitely be Barcelona, the sea, music, food and the energy of the people is a lifestyle and feeling I really resonate with.
-If you were a geometric shape?
- If i was a geometric shape I would be a sphere, represents infinity and continuity in my eyes.
-If you were a food?
- And for food, I have to go with sushi, and please don’t ask me which one because I love them all.
-What would be your music for the Couture Club?
- My music for couture club is Polaroïd/Roman/Photo by Ruth. I studied in a french high school for 5 years, and absolutely love these types of songs that evoque mystery and emotion.
