“What I create is literally a big part of me,” Findikoglu said. ”It comes from my soul sometimes, when I make something. It’s like, if I can’t explain something with words, I can through the garment.” Her kind of liberation—extreme and outrageous as it seems—contains empathy for where she comes from, as well as a release from it. “Because I like feel this everyday, even though I look like the most confident person in the
world, I actually am really emotional and insecure, and I feel the guilt that doesn’t belong to me,” she said. “So, it’s about also balancing toughness and softness all together. This collection is about giving voice to women that never actually have had it, and for me to
heal from my ancestral burden. This collection is my, like, goodbye, accepting and sending love to them, and then probably [I’m] the first girl to be this free from my whole ancestral line.” - Dilara Findikoglu (Additional Commentary: Vogue - Sarah Mower)
