Can Oker
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About
I'm working as fashion designer for 15 years and i'm creating ready to wear textile collections for the biggest fashion retail brands from all over the Europe such as ZARA,H&M,TOPSHOP,RIVERISLAND,PULL&BEAR,BERSHKA,JACKNJONES,VEROMODA,ONLY,MARKS&SPENCER,TESCO etc.. i'm Turkish and l live in Istanbul..
Since 6 years my position is Head of Design (Design Manager,Director)..I'm leading the Design and production deparments of the company...Also i have a personal luxury bag line which is on my name...That bag collections are selling at NETWORK-QUE Stores which are the stores of one of the biggest and luxurious Turkish brand...The collection sells in 37 stores around Turkey, also they are on selling in RUSSIA,CYPRUS and hopefully soon in CANADA
I'm very talented and strong in my field also i won 3.rd best designer degree in 2009 all over the Europe and after than the retail companies i mentioned upwards, wanted to work with me for their suppliers in Istanbul...And i have many more accomplishments that you can see on ''Awards'' section.. -
Education
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4.9 Faculty of Arts & Design-Fashion DesignCENTRAL SAINT MARTIN’S2005 - 2006Arts & Design-Fashion Design (Distance Education)
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4.2 Engineering Faculty –Materials ScienceKOCAELI UNIVERSITY2002 - 2006
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4.5 ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOLUMRANIYE ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL1997 - 2002
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Experience
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DESIGN MANAGERNETWORK - QUE BY CANOKERIstanbul, TurkeyMar 2017 - Present (5 years 2 months)With the collaboration between BOYNER NETWORK QUE Brand and myself, i started to launch my own luxury women bag line under my name in NETWORK QUE Stores...
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DESIGN MANAGERCANDEMIR TEXTILEIstanbul, TurkeyAug 2014 - Present (7 years 9 months)As the Design Manager (Director), I’m managing and directing the design team...My team is working for the retail fashion companies from Europe and Asia..
My responsibilities are to oversee and manage everything to do with design and production by linking two departments each other to control every design from sketch to
the finished product…
Also determining design program, moods and trends and design department’s aims, controlling linked departments to create the chemistry, overseeing Client meetings to make sure the design presentation go well and to have the stability of client relations etc.. -
DESIGN MANAGERDEMKA TEXTILEOct 2013 - Aug 2014 (10 months)My design team was creating and building collections for the biggest retail companies around Europe and Turkey...
As the Design Manager,I managed and directed 8 designers in my team...My responsibilities were to oversee and manage everything to do with design and production by linking two departments each other to control every design from sketch to the finished product..
Also determining design program, moods and trends and design department’s aims, controlling linked departments to create the chemistry, overseeing Client meetings to make sure the design presentation go well and to have the stability of client relations etc..
My design team worked for;
ZARA,H&M,PIMKIE,EOTON,MARES&SPENCER,JENNYFER,DOROTHY PERKINS,BHS,DEBENHAMS -
FASHION DESIGNERTOLGA TEXTILEIstanbul, TurkeyJun 2010 - Dec 2013 (3 years 6 months)As a fashion designer I was responsable from the collections need to be create for
Danish Brands VEROMODA and ONLY…My role was to design new collection,over-see the production and to travel oftenly to Denmark for buyer meetings to show the new collection each time… -
FASHION DESIGNERKINGSHEEN INTERNATIONALIstanbul, TurkeyMay 2006 - Oct 2008 (2 years 5 months)As a Women’s Fashion Designer, I was working under Lior Cohen (Design Director) with the other designers in the design team…
I was designing and building collections and also creating mood boards for the coming trends... I was responsible to participate collection presentation meetings with clients...
The brands I was working for;
TESCO, LITTLE WOODS, MARKS&SPENCER, LOVE LABEL
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FASHION DESIGNERIstanbul, TurkeyJan 2004 - Aug 2005 (1 year 7 months)As a Women’s and Men’s Fashion Designer, I was working under the Head of Design (Gaurav Gupta) with the other 8 designers in the design team…
My role was to design and build Graphic and Non- Graphic Jersey Top Collections according to LTB’s Label DNA..
Also I was responsible to oversee the samples of my designs and also responsible to oversee the productions of my own collections to make sure everything perfect to design to the end...
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Awards
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
-I had the honor of being the youngest jury member of " DETAY Leather Design Competition" which competition organized by Istanbul Leather and Leather Products Unity and Turkish Exporters Unity (TIM) - 2017
-With the Collaboration between me and one of the best quality and most prestigious brand of Turkey, Network QUE ,I started to create luxury women bag collections under my name which collections are selling in Network Que Stores... It had a great sale success even from the first collection. - (Since March 2017)
-At the times when i was Head of Design Team of DEMKA TEXTILE ,my design team had extraordinary sale success that my team tripled all the budget targets even long before the targeted dates...I created a unique, well disciplined , highly creative, productive design team... Our clients admired and became follower my design team, which was the ultimate goal...
-When I was working as a designer in my career, the pieces i designed for the Brands (ZARA,PULLNBEAR,BERSHKA,H&M,EOTON,MARES&SPENCER,VEROMODA,ONLY,JACENJONES ETC..) are took the first place on weekly, monthly sale reports many times...
-The collection I designed for the brand "CHIC YAMADA" won the 3th best collection award at "TONGUE IN CHIC DESIGN AWARD INT 2009"
- I had an exhibition at "MAMA SHOWROOM" Holland Rotterdam for my fashion illustrations, with the support of "MAMA SHOWROOM" (2007)
-I had two exhibitions at "THE HALL" Istanbul for my fashion illustrations. (2005,2007) -
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It would be very exciting to take over a fashion company with high aims and pull it to the biggest point in all over the world which i believe i can do it and i'm very passionate about it...Also I have very strong connections with the production factories and suppliers in TURKEY so it will be a huge plus that I can give in production side…So i'm always open for that kind of new opportunities...
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