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ORBISFASHION HOUSES & BOUTIQUES IN ISTANBUL8 stores · curated ORBIS register
Koton offers Turkish fashion and denim through a chain that began with a small Istanbul shop in 1988. Network brings smart-casual and occasion clothing into the same selection, following its launch in Turkey's ready-to-wear market in 1999. Its NetWork Limited series adds limited-production pieces to the label's wider range, with the series first introduced for Spring/Summer 2012.
Multiple locations, Istanbul
Boyner is a Turkish multi-brand department-store chain carrying local and international fashion, beauty and home goods. A specific Istanbul branch should replace this multiple-location record.
Best for Hundreds of local and international fashion labels at Turkey's largest department-store chain
Turkey
Turkish fast-fashion chain founded in Istanbul in 1988 by Yılmaz and Gülden Yılmaz from a 25-square-metre Kuzguncuk shop; now roughly 460 stores across more than 30 countries.
Best for Affordable Turkish fashion and denim
Koton is a Turkish fast-fashion retailer founded in Istanbul in 1988 by Yılmaz and Gülden Yılmaz, who opened their first store - just 25 square meters - in the Kuzguncuk district. The company moved into wholesale ready-to-wear in 1992, then opened its first store outside Turkey, in Munich, Germany, in 1996. In 2000 it shifted its main focus from wholesale toward larger-format retail stores. Koton has since grown into one of Turkey's largest ready-to-wear chains, operating roughly 460 stores in more than 30 countries. The company went public on Borsa Istanbul in 2024, trading under the ticker KOTON.
Istanbul, Turkey
Ay Marka launched NetWork in Turkey's ready-to-wear market in 1999; the limited-production NetWork Limited series followed from Spring/Summer 2012.
Best for Turkish smart-casual, corporate and occasion dressing
Ay Marka launched NetWork in Turkey’s ready-to-wear market in 1999. The label’s first-party history frames the name around connection and the technology era, then follows the collection from idea and design through production and presentation. Since 2012 it has widened its vocabulary through limited editions, leisurewear, occasion-focused Ceremony pieces and the technical N-Tech line. In practical terms, NetWork is a Turkish wardrobe brand spanning smart casual, formal and evening dressing rather than a single-category tailoring specialist.
Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Tomtom Kaptan Sokak is a Beyoğlu street lined with fashion boutiques, galleries and ateliers. It is an area itinerary rather than one merchant, so individual businesses need separate door records.
Best for Turkish fashion designers, concept stores, art galleries and ateliers
Maslak, Sarıyer, Istanbul
Multi-purpose venue with shops, restaurants, and events in Maslak — contemporary Turkish design, fashion, and lifestyle. The concept represents modern Istanbul's creative energy.
Best for Shops, restaurants, and events in Maslak — contemporary Turkish design, fashion
Istanbul / Turkey / Online
Vakko is a Turkish luxury house spanning womenswear, menswear, accessories, home and food. A specific Istanbul branch should replace this broad brand-level record because services and departments vary.
Best for Istanbul luxury fashion house
Turkey
Istanbul menswear brand under Vakko Holding, opened its first store in 2003 and has grown to roughly 40 stores in Turkey and abroad, pairing special fabrics with contemporary tailored cuts for business and everyday wear.
Best for Business-casual Turkish menswear with Istanbul polish
W Collection is a menswear brand belonging to Vakko Holding, the Turkish fashion and textile group best known for its flagship Vakko label. W Collection opened its first store in Istanbul in 2003, aiming at urban professional men who wanted clothing that could move between office and off-duty wear without a hard style break. Over the following two decades the brand expanded within Turkey and into a small number of international markets — reported at roughly 38 domestic stores and two abroad. The line's design approach favors special fabrics — technical blends and finished wool and cotton cloths chosen for comfort as much as appearance — worked into tailored but wearable silhouettes: suiting, shirting, knitwear and outerwear cut with contemporary proportions rather than strict formalwear rules. As part of Vakko Holding, W Collection draws on a parent company with a long-standing textile manufacturing and retail base in Turkey, giving the brand access to established production relationships. Its stores sit in shopping malls and city-center retail strips across the country, including branches in Istanbul (such as İstinyePark) and Antalya, targeting professional and semi-formal menswear customers at a mid-to-upper contemporary price point rather than mass-market fast fashion or the highest end of Turkish luxury retail.
Teşvikiye, Istanbul, Turkey
Fashion designer Rifat Ozbek turned to interiors in 2005 and, with partner Erdal Karaman, founded Yastik to make cushions from hand-woven ikats and suzani embroideries sourced in Central Asia and Uzbekistan. The Istanbul shop at Şakayık Sokak 13/1 in Teşvikiye carries limited-edition pieces with lavender folded into the down filling. Further stores followed in Alaçatı and, from 2010, in London.
Best for Ikat and suzani cushions
Yastik is the cushion house that the fashion designer Rifat Ozbek started in 2005. After thirty years on the runway, decorating his own holiday home in southern Turkey turned his attention to interiors. With his partner Erdal Karaman he created Yastik, the Turkish word for pillow, and opened a small shop near Bodrum. Own-brand stores followed in Istanbul and Alaçatı, and the label launched in London in 2010. The Istanbul shop and head office sit at Şakayık Sokak 13/1 in Teşvikiye. Yastik cushions are made in limited editions from hand-woven ikats and suzani embroideries sourced in Central Asia and Uzbekistan. The house describes these textile traditions as telling their stories through colour and weave as much as pattern. Ozbek and Karaman recombine and rework the fabrics so that they sit in either a traditional or a modern room. A handful of lavender flowers goes into the down filling of each cushion. The inner pillow is 100 percent goose feather. For its tenth year in 2016 the brand added two scented candles, Istanbul and London, developed with the perfumer Azzi Glasser. Wholesale accounts have included CFOC and Le Bon Marché in Paris and Dwell in New York. The cushions have furnished the Amanzoe in Athens and Maca Kizi in Bodrum. Ozbek was born in Istanbul and graduated in fashion from Central Saint Martins in 1977. He launched his Ozbek label in London in 1985, and the British Fashion Council named him Designer of the Year in 1988 and again in 1992.
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