Tahir sultan biography

He studied under the legendary John Galliano and he’s got his sights set on global domination. Enigma’s Annelle Sheline meets Tahir Sutlan, the wickedest, wildest new designer on the block.

A serene face worthy of a boy band member masks the frenetic energy of Tahir Sultan’s precocious brilliance.

Lounging on a sofa in HIP’s sunlit showroom in Mohandessin – where his 2009 collection is now available in Cairo – Sultan hotly describes the world of fashion; careening from disgust to pride in the space of a sentence.

Like any artist, the work the rest of the world finds appealing (like the pieces currently being priced downstairs), he considers the daily grind. Instead he pours his real talent into sartorial works of art, many of which are un-wearable.

“The stuff I want to do is going to be insane!” he crows, “Because I don’t like beautiful fashion.” Yet the genius of Sultan the craftsman is balanced by the calculations of Sultan the businessman: his spring/summer 2009 line i