Belt Bag in woven seat-belt webbing, red with blue stitching
Portfolio·N°01·Autumn 2026

Aylin Yildiz

The engineer who buys like an editor.
Buying × Data Analytics · Premium & Luxury

Open from September 2026

B.Eng. Clothing Technology & Management · Hamburg

me@aylin-yildiz.com CV (PDF) ↓

Bachelor thesis · Grade 1.0
Waste → premium product
Buying · 120+ brands
Four brands brought in
Hamburg — 2026 ▏▍▎▏▍▎▎▏▍▏▎▍▏▎
The Issue
Companies, labels and trade floors — sourced · sold · co-founded

Companies, labels and trade floors: BROGUE, HAW Hamburg, COMVM, MyMexiko, Die Wäscherei, Filson, Sebago, Carmina, Danner, Buttero, Moon Boot, Puma, Secrid, Heschung, Corgi, Astorflex, Pitti Uomo, Première Vision, Maison & Objet, CIFF, Munich Fabric Start.

The Lookbook —
Fifty Square MetresTwenty pages from the MyMexiko floor: the fashion concept and the display rooms of the house around it, set as a magazine.Click the cover to flip through

In this issue

Six projects · what came out · where to read it

Then, further down: the work itself — and the person behind it.

What happens when an industry slowly becomes the opposite of what made people fall in love with it?

A thought I keep coming back to
About How I look at things The eye · the years · what next

Selected
Works

Seat-belt belt bag
01 Bachelor thesis · HAW Hamburg · graded 1.0

From Waste
to Product

247 metres of decommissioned seat belt, reengineered into two products — cut with a self-built hot tool, pulled to failure against the automotive belt standard.

Graded 1.0 · cross-tack seams failed at a mean of 642 N

Enter the project
COMVM wordmark stamped in gold on black leather
02 COMVM · Como · co-founded

A Label From
Scratch

Brand, price architecture, sourcing and market entry for a premium slipper house — moodboard to first order, handmade in a Como atelier.

Five lines, ~400 units — handmade in Como

Enter the project
Two beakers labelled alum and alum plus iron sulphate — the mordant baths
03 Textile technology · HAW Hamburg · 2025

Process at
the Material

Eight standard test methods at HAW Hamburg — tensile, abrasion, pilling, rub, fastness, dyeing, spectrophotometry, flammability — run against ISO, DIN and UN/ECE.

Wash fastness grade 5 mordanted vs 4 raw

Enter the project
Leather swatch fan, colour selection on the fair floor
04 BROGUE · Concept store · Buyer & creative advisor

Assortment
by System

Buying and product development across 120+ labels on 250 m² — assortment planning, order appointments in Milan and Paris, goods receipt back home.

Four brands brought in — nearly all still there when I left

Enter the project
The MyMexiko neon sign on the grid wall
05 Concept store · Herzogenrath · 2025

Fifty Square
Metres

A fashion concept on 50 m² inside a 10,000 m² furniture house — concept drawn, roughly ten brands bought, the interior built by hand, then corrected against the conversion figures.

Half a percent of the floor · 17 % of the house's revenue

Enter the project
Slide from the deck: 226,904 raw orders across four tables, cleaned to 40,985 completed orders
06 Analytics · SQL · Python · Tableau

Five cases,
one worked through

Discount strategy, market sizing, pipeline design — and one case taken from 226,904 raw orders to four pricing rules, each argued from the data.

92.8 % of orderlines discounted · €1.53 M revenue given away

Enter the index
The Method

Material to market, one system.

01Reclaim
02Material
03Process
04Test
05Build
06Market
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The Classified Archive

Not everything belongs on the surface. Unreleased concepts, full tech packs, tensile data, pricing models and the work still under wraps — available on request, not on display.

Normative EngineeringMaterial DossiersPricing ModelsUnreleased Concepts
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01 Thesis From Waste to Product material → process → test → product Decommissioned seat belts, reengineered. 02 COMVM A Label From Scratch taste → material → craft → market A premium house, built from the bench up. 03 Textile Process at the Material hypothesis → method → measurement → result Eight standard test methods — and one series carried through end to end. 04 Buying Assortment by System look → compare → buy → inspect Four brands brought in. Nearly all still there when I left. 05 MyMexiko Fifty Square Metres concept → buy → build → conversion → correction Half a percent of the floor. A sixth of the revenue. 06 Data The Data Index question → data → analysis → decision Sell-through told me what had happened. It never told me what belonged.
CV (PDF) 2026 Lookbook MyMexiko Test protocols 5 of 8 Certifications Tableau · PCEP Tech packs on request LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗

Contact

me@aylin-yildiz.com

Aylin Yildiz — Buying × Data Analytics · Premium & Luxury
Open from September 2026 · Hamburg