Aylin Yildiz
Open from October 2026 — Buyer / Assistant Buyer
B.Eng. Clothing Technology & Management · Hamburg
Waste → premium product
Low six figures per season
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
Five projects · what came out · where to read itThen, further down: the analytics index — five data cases, one worked through end to end — and the person behind it.
Selected
Works
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
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 — half the run sold
Enter the project
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
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
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 projectMaterial to market, one system.
The Data Index
github.com/AylinYildiz26 ↗Five cases,
one worked through
Discount strategy, market sizing, pipeline design — and one case taken from 226,904 raw orders to a pricing rule the board could adopt.
92.8 % of orderlines discounted · €1.53 M revenue given away
Enter the indexAbout
The Contributor · Eng · Buying · DataOne thread runs through all of it: taste that can be justified. An editor does not fill a page. They decide what stays out — and can say why. That is how I buy: a range is what survives the tests, not what was ordered last season. Engineering rigour meets seven years in the premium segment, 2017 to 2023 — shop floor, buying office, and a label of my own.
What I want next is a buying desk where sustainable means what it used to mean: made well enough to be kept. A seam that still holds after years, a leather that ages instead of failing, a workshop that can say why the last is cut that way. I can pull a material to breaking point and put a number on it — but the number only proves it survives. Whether it deserves to be kept is settled by hand and eye, in the seconds before anyone opens the test report. I want to buy where both still count.
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.