Bahadır Türkgeldi
Intercultural design unites people through the new languages it proposes; it exalts the love and the sharing that are the purpose of a person's creation, and draws ever nearer to the perfection of beauty.
Projects
dei Turchi
AW26
SW25
Wilky
SS27
A hand between two seas
Bahadır Türkgeldi is a designer and editor building bridges between cultures through fashion and storytelling. Trained in Comparative Literature and Textile & Fashion Design at İstanbul Bilgi University, in pattern making at Altier Academy and in textile design at IED's Accademia Aldo Galli in Como, his work folds Anatolian and Ottoman memory into contemporary design: from the award-winning Enheduanna (IED-FWC, 1st prize) to kidswear seasons for KidZee.
Turkish names both seas by colour: the Black Sea is Karadeniz, the Mediterranean Akdeniz — the white sea. In the old Turkic colours of the compass, black is north and white is west.
Experience
- KidZeeFashion Designer2025 — 2026
- Marie ClaireContributing Editor2022 — 2025
- Altier AcademyFashion Design Lecturer2024
- Donna Bacconi CoutureIntern2021
Education
- IED — Accademia Aldo Galli, ComoTextile Design: Fashion & Interior, summer course2024
- Altier AcademyFashion Design, Pattern Making and Digital Pattern Making certificates2023 — 2024
- İstanbul Bilgi UniversityBA Comparative Literature, with a diploma in Textile & Fashion Design2019 — 2023
