A comparative study of collection, development and production stages of individual fashion designers and fashion designers working in corporate companies

Clothing is one of the most important factors that play a role in looking beautiful, embellishing, joining a group, feeling good and safe, revealing your personality, besides being thehumannature's protection motive. Today, individual fashion designers and fashion designers working in corporate companies create their collections by making various clothing designs in order to meet these needs of people. While conducting this research, it is examined how both individual fashion designers and fashion designers working in corporate firms create their collections and what kind of stages they have gonethrough while creating their collections. The sources and events they inspired when creating their collections, what methods they reflect their inspiration on their designs, and what elements they consider when designing them are examined comparatively. In addition to the process of creating a collection, the development of this process and the production process of the resulting products are also examined. While making these examinations, the content of the research was prepared by interviewing both eight individual fashion designers and eight fashion designers working in corporate companies. Interviews were conducted with Ahmet Baytar, Barbaros Şansal, Çiğdem Akın, Ezra Çetin, Gamze Saraçoğlu, Nihan Peker, Niyazi Erdoğan and Yıldırım Mayruk as individual fashion designers. As fashion designers working in corporate companies, interviewswere conducted with Çağrı Öztürk and Demet Ateş in Boyner, Aysu Yavuz in Colin'sbrand, Tuğba Kaya in George Hogg, FigenUygun in İpekyol, Aslıhan Akdemir in Koton, Şirin Ezgi Yalın in LC Waikiki and Hilal Uysal in Pierre Cardin. In addition to the interviews, visual and written sources from the designers are included in the thesis content. As a result of the research, the differences between individual fashion designers and fashion designers working in corporate firms, collection creation, development and production processes are revealed. Keywords:Design, Designer, Collection, Individual Fashion Designers, Fashion Designers Working in Corporate Firms, Collection Creation Process, Collection Development Process, Collection Production Process