Born and raised in Turkey, Aslı Filinta launched her fashion line’ Aslı Filinta’ and showed her first collection in New York in March 2009. Since then, her collections have been exhibited at international runway shows and exhibitions, such as Turkish Designers Runway, New York, 2020; Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Istanbul, 2018; and Joyce Gallery, Palais Royal in Paris. Over the years, the brand has been available in stores in 18 countries alongside notable brands such as Chanel, Dior, Loewe, Celine, and Martin Margiela, and the brand has been carried by Joyce, Hong Kong next to brands like Sacai and Pleats Please Issey Miyake. Aslı Filinta has been featured in major fashion media, including Vogue US, Monocle, WWD, and Vogue Nippon.
Over the years, the brand has been available in stores in 18 countries alongside notable brands such as Chanel, Dior, Loewe, Celine, and Martin Margiela. Her creative designs have extended beyond the fashion world through collaborations with major global brands and organizations, such as Coca-Cola, Redbull, Skinceuticals L’oreal, Vestel, and more. The designer has also received significant recognition from leading experts in her field and substantial press attention from the BBC, The Telegraph, WWD, Forward, and CNN Turk, among many others.
One of her first collections, inspired by the historical Grand Bazaar ceiling motifs, defined the designer’s path in transforming Ottoman and Turkish stories into clothing. Throughout her designs, Aslı Filinta has embodied diverse love stories from Ottoman and Turkish history, among which one can find Nazım Hikmet’s love for life, Mimar Sinan’s love for Mihrimah Sultan, Rumi’s Parrot’s love for freedom or Leyla Gencer’s love for singing. Nikki Bedi from BBC outlines the brand as ‘unusual and original,’ and she says,