Dilara Fındıkoğlu is fed up with the fashion system.
“Fashion is not how it used to be anymore – there needs to be more fantasy. I wish people pushed boundaries more – every time I look at a collection on the runways, it looks like the same thing, without shading anybody. Sometimes I really consider if I should just make art,” she said backstage.
The Turkish-born designer’s fall 2025 collection was nothing short of a dream of goddesses and beautiful monsters.
She titled the collection “Venus From Chaos” and dressed her models in shells, safety pins, and pearls; sheer Victorian undergarments, and a leather dress moulded onto the model’s breasts and derriere.
This was no collection for the high street and the designer made it clear she doesn’t want to see it on a rack next to “other simple brands.”
“There’s definitely a limit between the high-fashion fantasy that we want to live [in] and makes people dream to the brands found on the high street,” she explained.
Fındıkoğlu calls fashion her escape from reality and wants more people to express themselves through it.
Her instructions to the models before they went out were to channel a “medieval rockstar,” “moody but ethereal,” and “don’t give a f–ck but hypnotic.”
“I’m going to the planet where I was born – Venus and I’m creating the ultimate world,” she declared.
