Kutnia—Gaziantep, Turkey’s cutting-edge luxury ready-to-wear collection—blends ancient kutnu weaving mastery with modern innovation and classic style. With experience with ancient silk weaving techniques, Kutnia merges heritage with mastery, modern innovation and classic style. Kutnia’s proprietary weaving technique is rooted in the silk-warped and cotton-wefted “palace cloth”—uniquely indigenous to Gaziantep—which, for centuries, was used to craft royal kaftans of sultans and sultanas and later for the vestments of Ottoman and European nobility.
The world has been swooning over kutnu cloth for more than five centuries. Visual and textural richness, a perfectly put-together color palette, and contemporary silhouettes make this newest collection exceptionally polished.
Through this collection, Kutnia founder and visionary Jülide Konukoğlu is helping to sustain and reenergize Gaziantep’s weaving tradition and heritage—a legacy dating to the origins of the Silk Road. The result of intensive research and development, Kutnia’s technology-driven update of the kutnu weaving tradition has helped reinvigorate a culturally significant community and tradition as it expands output and international availability of this time-honored royal and ancient fabric.
Kutnia’s designs make spectacular use of kutnu’s unequaled capacity for textural and visual variation—an attribute that gives each piece unlimited potential as either the foundation of a look or a new style created by the wearer. Rooted in tradition, Kutnia breaks new ground in the present, creating new possibilities for the future—it is everything a designer ready-to-wear brand should be and can be. Available at kutnia.com and morphewworld.com.