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Modern Turkish designers such as Rıfat Özbek, Cemil İpekçi, Vural Gökçaylı, Yıldırım Mayruk, Sadık Kızılağaç, Hakan Elyaban, and Bahar Korçan draw inspiration from historical Ottoman designs, and Ottoman or Ottoman-inspired patterns are important to the Turkish textile industry.
Turquerie (anglicized as "Turkery"), or Turquoiserie, [1] was the Turkish fashion in Western Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries for imitating aspects of Ottoman art and culture. Many different Western European countries were fascinated by the exotic and relatively unknown culture of the Ottoman ruling class, which was the center of the ...
Rifat Ozbek (Turkish: Rıfat Özbek, pronounced [ɾɯˈfat ˈœzbec]; born 1953) is a Turkish-born fashion and interior designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits. [1] He was named British Designer of the Year in 1988 and 1992. [2] [3]
Image of a 17th-century Kizlar Agha, from the Rålamb Book of Costumes. The kizlar agha (Ottoman Turkish: قيزلر اغاسی, Turkish: kızlar ağası, lit. ' "agha of the girls" '), formally the agha of the House of Felicity (Ottoman Turkish: دار السعاده اغاسي, Turkish: Darüssaade Ağası), [1] was the head of the eunuchs who guarded the Ottoman Imperial Harem in ...
This category describes traditional and historic Turkish clothing. Turkish clothing should be categorised under Turkish fashion or Clothing companies of Turkey Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clothing of Turkey .
The fez (Turkish: fes, Ottoman Turkish: فس, romanized: fes) [1] is also known as a tarboosh (Arabic: طربوش, romanized: ṭarbūš [2]), also spelt tarboush. [3]The word tarboosh is thought to be a loanword from Persian: Sarpūš (meaning "headdress") [4] via the Turkish language, from Ottoman Turkish تيرپوس (terpos), [5] [6] and is used mainly in the countries of the Levant (Syria ...
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The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of Ottoman influence in Morocco during which Ahmad al-Mansur, who was greatly influenced by Ottoman culture, adopted Turkish costumes and customs, he introduced Ottoman fashions of dress, his army adopted Turkish costumes and titles and ambassadors even noted the use of Turkish pottery and ...