Time for shopping in Laleli...

The traditional "Laleli Fashion Shopping" Festival, organized for the 2nd time this year by the Laleli Industrialists and Businessmen Association (LASIAD), started with a spectacular fashion show on May 27th.

On May 27, 2013, LASIAD Management came together for breakfast with the participation of Adnan Güler, Deputy Mayor of Fatih Municipality and with the arrival of Mustafa Demir, Mayor of Fatih Municipality to Laleli, they visited tradesmen in the streets of Laleli and distributed carnations. After the cortege march, there were live performances, dancers, marching bands, spectacular shows of mannequins and Disneyland characters on the streets of Laleli.

Famous names walked on a record 150-meter catwalk

Celebrities passed through the 150-meter long catwalk that Öner Evez, who organized the festival and choreographed the fashion show, set up along Laleli Mesih Paşa Street. In the fashion show consisting of the products of dozens of LASIAD member brands, 40 local and foreign models walked on the catwalk, including Wilma Elles, Ayşe Hatun Önal, Çağla Şikel, Didem Soydan, Merve Büyüksaraç, Ebru Öztürk, Tuba Melis Türk, Ülkü Taşkın and Selda Car. The opening of the festival, which was hosted by Tatiana, nicknamed the Russian Bride, was a surprise for Berna Öztürk. Berna Öztürk, who was a DJ during the fashion show, also added color to the fashion show by walking on the 150-meter runway. Among the special guests of the fashion show; Istanbul Deputy. AK Party Fatih Founding District Chairman and AK Party Vice President for Organization Ahmet Baha Öğütken, Istanbul Deputy Governor Kazım Tekin, IHKIB President Hikmet Tanrıverdi, Fatih District Police Chief İrfan Bekaroğlulları, Fatih Municipality Deputy Mayor Mehmet Ustaoğlu.

Raises hopes for the future

The "II. Laleli Fashion Shopping Festival" organized by LASIAD hosted Turkish textile manufacturers and guests from the Former Eastern Bloc Countries, Turkic Republics and Europe with various activities as well as discount opportunities for wholesalers in the domestic and foreign markets between 27 May - 02 June.

Giyasettin Eyyüpkoca, President of Laleli Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (LASIAD), which organizes the festival, said, "There is now a branded Laleli on its own with its increasing trade volume every day. With this festival, we show our innovation in terms of products and services. This festival, which is almost a mirror of the great change we have realized in recent years, makes our region hopeful for the future. Our region is united as one. Spectacular shows added great color to this festival organized worldwide. All our local and foreign guests are smiling. Seeing the glow on the faces of our guests in this magnificent organization is the success itself for us."
Deputy Presidents Kutbettin Ayyıldız, Hikmet Ünal, Board Member Cüneyt Mutkan and Secretary General Sami Kurt from OTİAD attended the opening of the festival.