Burç Akyol Fall 2025: Confront the Hard Words
For fall 2025, Burç Akyol declared himself a fighter against the stigma surrounding the LGBTQIA+ community and put a campy twist on those degenerative words he was labeled with growing up.
'The only thing you can do is make them become your banners, and then no one can offend you,' Akyol said backstage.
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The collection was ultimately drag, done in a high-fashion way, as he played dress up with the ideal female protagonist he had in mind. She seemed to be in power and has control over her body and her life.
On the top floor of the Institut du Monde Arabe, the show opened with a long, geometric-patterned coat made from bath towel-like material. He then offered a slew of sleek, faux-fur-trimmed jackets and boxy tailored blazers paired with drapey balloon trousers or split hem cigarette pants.
From the second half, the looks pivoted toward see-through, acid color evening numbers. The designer said his personal favorite was look 28, a sheer chartreuse blouse styled with a cobalt blue slit skirt. 'It's almost like wearing nothing. The liberty of that has no equal,' Akyol added.
While the pieces, in reality, would end up in the wardrobe of some oil-rich ladies, Akyol said that within his position as a designer, he would like to voice his support to the marginalized groups in a world that's collectively turning right.
'We have all these things going on. We cannot talk about them. We're going to offend the market and our buyers. But we just have to be resilient, keep pushing, and not forget who we are,' he added.
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