MILAN - After almost 15 years in business, striving for and thriving amid independence, Umit Benan sensed it was time to give his namesake brand some external fuel. After pausing his conceptual ...

Two-and-half years ago, Umit Benan held a great Fall 2016 show in Paris—and then that was apparently it. The German-born, Swedish-raised, Turkish-lineaged designer of much-loved menswear dropped out ...

At Umit Benan’s revamped headquarters, where once stood brutalist concrete, fluted tan wainscoting adds a homey feeling. Replete with a bar counter, velvety sofas, vases of dried hydrangeas and large ...

Umit Benan made his name young, hitting the menswear scene with his eponymous label in 2009 and winning Pitti Uomo’s distinguished Who Is On Next? award that same year with his second collection, all ...

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To establish a viable men’s fashion business from scratch as a solo designer these days requires a cocktail of iron-clad conviction and cojones. It takes even more (of both) to then suddenly change ...

Designer Umit Benan is known for his shows that combine beautiful menswear with atypical menswear models—but that’s only because they tend to be "real" men, sometimes casted off the street, as opposed ...

Umit Benan staged his Fall-Winter 2016 runway show around a naked tattooed woman covered in sushi. The models were street-cast tough guys in judo suits, shearling jackets, and elegantly cut overcoats.

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Umit Benan played tennis as a kid, four times a week for ten years. He wanted to turn professional, until life got in the way. But when he called his show "Tennis Club de Cartagena, Colombia," it was ...

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