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http://www.husseinchalayan.com/biography.php

Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and was educated both in Cyprus and England.

1993
Graduated Central Saint Martins BA (Honours) degree in Fashion

1997
Talk at the Tate Gallery on the parallels between fashion, art and architecture with Zaha Hadid and Michael Bracewell

1998
Current/See: Michael Clark Company, costume design

1999
Handel's Messiah, directed by Eric Fraad, John Jay College Theatre, New York, costume design

2000
Appointed Creative Director of Asprey

2001
C Magazine launch, curated and edited by Hussein Chalayan

2003
Temporal Meditations Spring/Summer 2004 Mens Collection, short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Pitti Uomo, Florence and Palais du Tokyo, Paris
Place to Passage, short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at The Truman Brewery, London

2004
Opening Hussein Chalayan Shop, Daikanyama, Tokyo
Place to Passage, screening Project 4 L Museum, Istanbul
Place/Non-Place, airport event, Heathrow, London
Place to Passage, sceening Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva Anaesthetics, short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2005
Place to Passage (installation), Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Place to Passage, Cano Studios, Madrid
Anaesthetics, Jaeso von Puttkamer Gallery, Berlin

2006
Hussein Chalayan awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2006

Compassion Fatigue – short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Garanti Galeri, Istanbul

Runway Rocks collaboration piece with Swarovski

Absent Presence – short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screene a the Venice Biennale
as the main representation for the Turkish Pavilion.