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Dilara Karayazi Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Fabricca Headbone Headwear in Fashion and Travel Accessories Design
Dilara Karayazi acknowledged for fashion and travel accessories design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 26, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fashion and Travel Accessories Design category for Fabricca Headbone Headwear by Dilara Karayazi, designed for Fabricca. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Fabricca Headbone Headwear
Headbone is a wired textile headwear design that redefines traditional head coverings through an integrated internal form control system. The design enables stable shape retention without pins, knots, or complex wrapping, allowing the wearer to intuitively sculpt and adjust the form. Its two sided construction provides dual styling options within a single object. Combining functional engineering with sculptural aesthetics, Headbone offers a modular, accessible, and contemporary approach to headwear design.
About Dilara Karayazi
Dilara Karayazi is a multidisciplinary professional working at the intersection of design, product development, and business strategy. With an academic background spanning engineering, innovation management, fashion merchandising, and music, her work combines analytical thinking with creative practice. She has held senior roles in global organizations across consumer goods, retail, and technology, contributing to product portfolios, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. She also serves as a board member of the Turkish Council of Women Entrepreneurs, contributing to initiatives that support entrepreneurship, inclusion, and sustainable economic development.
Award Record
This recognition makes Dilara Karayazi a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fashion and Travel Accessories Design Award
The A' Accessory Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good accessory designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to accessory designers, fashion designers, travel accessory designers and luxury goods manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include handbags, scarves, belts, luggage, hats and travel bags. Awarded accessory designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/accessory
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/180717
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/180717
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!180717
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/379518
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.fabriccadesign.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Fabricca Headbone Headwear
- Function
- Headwear
- Category
- Fashion and Travel Accessories Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion and Luxury
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Ghost White, Saddle Brown, Light Gray and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Fabricca
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Dilara Karayazi
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #180717
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Headbone is an innovative wired textile headwear design that integrates an internal form-control structure to enable shape retention without pins, knots, or complex wrapping. The two-sided construction offers dual styling options in a single product, allowing users to intuitively sculpt, restyle, and secure the form in seconds, transforming traditional headwear into a functional, modular, and sculptural fashion object.
- Inspiration
- Headbone was inspired by the sculptural elegance and cultural strength of African women colorful headwear traditions, combined with a functional intent to support women experiencing hair loss due to health conditions. The design emerged from research into form retaining textiles and inclusive fashion, aiming to offer a chic, dignified, and empowering alternative that unites aesthetics, comfort, and accessibility.
- Research
- Type of Research: Applied design research. Objectives: To create intuitive, inclusive headwear combining form control and elegance. Methodology: Material testing, prototyping, and user-centric iteration. Data & Tools: Textile sampling, pressure tests, wear trials. Participants: Female users, including individuals with hair loss. Results: Stable, easy styling without fasteners. Insights & Impact: Improves accessibility, dignity, and sustainable fashion practices.
- Challenge
- The primary challenge was reinterpreting culturally rooted headwear into a contemporary, functional design without losing its symbolic value. Internally, the project addressed social inclusivity and dignity in relation to hair loss. Externally, challenges included developing a safe, durable shaping mechanism within textile constraints, sourcing sustainable materials, and ensuring compliance with production and safety standards while maintaining aesthetic integrity.
- Realization and Technology
- Headbone is produced using breathable textile materials sourced from surplus fabrics of large-scale textile manufacturers, reducing material waste and supporting sustainable production. An internal non-breakable shaping wire is integrated into the structure and has undergone pressure and durability testing to ensure long-term form retention, flexibility, and user safety without compromising comfort
- Operation and Interaction
- Headbone operates through an intuitive interaction between the user and its integrated shaping wire. The wearer positions the textile over the head and gently bends the internal structure to sculpt see, secure, and adjust the desired form. The design maintains its shape without pins or knots, enabling rapid transformation, stable wear, and repeatable styling with minimal physical effort.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2020 in Istanbul and was completed in July 2020. Headbone was first launched to the public through the brands official website in August 2020.
- Specifications
- Headbone is a soft textile headwear product with a total length of 540 mm and a height of 290 mm. The flexible construction allows adaptive width and depth depending on styling and head size. An integrated internal shaping wire enables controlled form retention while maintaining lightweight comfort.
- Keywords
- wired headwear, modular fashion design, sculptural textile, inclusive fashion, sustainable headwear, reversible design, functional fashion, wearable design, contemporary headwear, form-retaining textile
