John Paul Ataker at NYFW
At the New York Fashion Week John Paul Ataker show his qualities by walking on runway Karlie Kloss leading a voluminous, embroidered train.
Ataker wanted to deliver “a grave warning,” and his trope of choice was the the Chernobyl nuclear environmental disaster. “Show was choreographed to honor its victims.”
Closed with a song by Kazim Koyuncu, a favorite musician from The Black Sea Region, who was a victim of the fatal nuclear fallout of Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
The collection was inspired by the Black Sea Region of Turkey, a geo-ecological zone of deep blue waters and green fertile lands. The show comes in anticipation of John Paul Ataker’s first U.S. flagship store opening in October 2017 at 804 Madison Avenue and 67th Street in New York City.
According to the press materials, the collection incorporates the “wicker quilt art of fishermen, fishing and sailing ropes, and authentic wrung bracelets of the silversmiths of Trebizond knitting and weaving artisanship, and ethnic Kazaz silver knot art.”
The Black Sea has become a bearer of what designer Numan Ataker has termed “slow fashion.” He is calling on other parts of the world to opt for slow fashion because “it is about being purposeful and realizing that fewer is better and healthier both for humankind and our planet.”
Mainly John Paul Ataker described as contemporary interpretations of traditional fishermen’s boots and farmers’ footwear embellished with metallic fishermen cords that will be sold in the Madison Avenue store.
His world-renowned models walking the Ataker runway included Taylor Hill, Lameka Fox, Faretta, Birgit Kos, Charlee Fraser, and Dayana Mendoza.
The designer has sophisticated style and high-quality tailoring rapidly catapulted the company to an industry-leading position after its 1977 founding in Istanbul. Now headquartered in New York, the design house every woman who wears the brand feels both the elegance of the design and the soft caress of its luxurious fabrics. John Paul Ataker has been featured in numerous fashion and lifestyle publications Vogue, InStyle, Yahoo! Style, People Magazine.
