Regions and cities live and develop with their values. While these values are formed in the historical process, they can also emerge periodically. Laleli Shopping and Fashion Festival came to life as an idea put forward exactly eight years ago and has survived to this day as a value of our region. This festival, which came to life with different concepts and contents in the past years, has undertaken many missions over time and added significant values to our region in all of them.
This project, which emerged with the aim of improving Laleli’s brand value and image, has contributed greatly to Laleli’s goal of becoming a world-renowned and influential fashion center over time. It preserved the excitement and dynamics of the region during the difficult political processes our country went through and provided a strong motivation to our country. This organization, whose commercial gains are increasing day by day with its increasing energy and developing structure, is one of the most important commercial events of Istanbul and our country. This organization, in which we host buyers coming to Turkey from many different countries of the world and establish important global commercial cooperation with them, can be considered an important milestone on the way to our country’s 2023 goals. In addition to its contributions to Laleli’s future vision, the Laleli Shopping and Fashion Festival, which also develops the concept of acting together, has now turned into a global scale organization where fashion and shopping meet. While we feel this deeply over time, it has also undertaken an important task in consolidating and growing the commercial bridges developed from past to present. In this respect, this festival, which will be held for the eighth time this year, is one of the most valuable assets of Laleli’s future journey.
The power of every work done is related to its continuity. However, jobs that become permanent can turn into added value. As LASİAD, we always believed and gave strength to this event despite all the difficult processes we went through. Today, this festival is a remarkable organization that has its feet firmly on the ground and has taken its place in the calendars of global buyers. It is the ultimate fruit of our efforts to make Laleli a world brand. This organization, which everyone who loves Laleli, embraces Laleli and lives by it should be proud of, is an important means of awareness that we can pass on to future generations. It is the biggest indicator for our region of what can be done if it is desired and believed wholeheartedly. “Laleli Fashion & Shopping Festival” is the name of being united and standing shoulder to shoulder.
We will be very happy and honored to see all our friends and stakeholders among us at this event. While sadness decreases together, happiness and joys increase and increase together. We invite all Laleli friends to this organization to share our happiness and excitement. Again, we would like to thank all the chamber and union presidents who believed, trusted and supported us in the realization of the event. We would like to thank everyone who has participated and shared our excitement since the beginning of the festival. I’m glad to have you. It’s good that we are one and together.
Gıyasettin Eyyüpkoca
