Asli Filinta Demir is an internationally acclaimed young Turkish designer who started out in NYC. Her work has been profoundly inspired by Anatolian Culture and the beating heart of her brand ‘Aslı Filinta’ is centred around social conscience. 

While the fashion world is still in a hamster wheel, she has actually pressed the pause button to work on a solution by producing less, upcycle more and empower others. She has created a woman empowerment program to support disadvantaged women by giving them a purpose and work. It is these women who are behind the beautiful hand embroidered details and artisanal work on her clothing. After seeing how vulnerable the entire world is after the pandemic, she has been putting effort on raising awareness for social sustainability, to inspire others to consume more consciously and to believe in ‘Sharing the light’

Born and raised in Turkey, Asli Filinta Demir graduated from Bilkent Economics in 2001.Having worked in finance for one year, she moved to New York.She launched ‘Aslı Filinta’ and presented her first collection in New York in March 2008. She was honored the Young Designers Fashion Award of Who’s Next organisation of Paris in 2009. Filinta was invited to design a colletion for Target from SS 2009 season and announced by the online-media mogul, Daily-Candy, as the genuine, the unique and the next among young international designers. End of her second collection, she caught the eye of Vogue Nippon and was invited to the Comme Des Garcons pop up store at Dover street Market Aoyama with the superbrands Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Loewe, Celine, Lanvin, Martin Margiela, Chloe, Marni and more. After getting featured at Vogue Nippon and Japanese Newspaper Nissen many times, and announced as the young talent for mixing Anatolian tradition with global fashion awareness at WWD, she was invited to do an exhibition at Joyce Gallery, Palais Royal in Paris and the Asli Filinta brand has been carried by Joyce, Hong Kong next to the brands like Sacai and Pleats Please Issey Miyake. In March 2019, after her presentation in a former synagog in Istanbul, the headlines were ‘’ Aslı Filinta is the name to know from Mercedes-Benz Istanbul’ at Vogue US and The Forward.