Your Trusted Sourcing Partner of Choice

EY ISTANBUL provides professional guidance in the outsourcing of ready-made garment production in Turkey. We offer valuable services in supply chain and materials management. We combine our best resources and experience with a tailored approach to meet your specific needs.

Proactive: We do much more than just take initiative; we anticipate needs and act decisively.
Innovative: We are motivated to create, think, and execute in new and effective ways.
Dedicated: We achieve a deep understanding of what our customers want and commit fully to delivering it.
Boundless: We ensure the customer always wins with the right balance of price and quality.
Trust: We build long-term relationships based on mutual trust and reliability.
Transparent: We guarantee transparency in information and commitment throughout the process.

ABOUT

Elif Yazıcı is an accomplished apparel industry executive, trained at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York, with over two decades of experience. She handles all aspects of the high-end retail fashion business, including design, production, purchasing, brand management, collection management, merchandising, and supply chain logistics.

Elif’s philosophy centers on continually striving for excellence and providing high-quality products and services to international clients.

Elif has consistently selected and managed the most capable and reliable manufacturers to deliver high-quality results at competitive costs for high-end brands. She ensures that, in addition to deep expertise and knowledge of production techniques, these partners provide the highest level of care and attention to customer needs.

In addition to her deep professional success and industry experience, Elif maintains a strong commitment to academia, contributing to the education of future fashion and textile professionals at institutions like Marmara University and Istanbul Fashion Academy.

WHAT WE DO

EY Istanbul offers a wide range of possibilities tailored to meet the diverse quality, price, and volume needs of our clients. We work closely with our clients’ design teams to gain a comprehensive understanding of their specific requirements regarding quality, quantity, and cost.

Supply Chain Management

The responsibility of our supply chain is to align commercial objectives with our core vision of protecting the planet and enhancing people’s lives. EY Istanbul’s fundamental duty is finding the right materials and factories that uphold a strong commitment to quality and sustainability. We expect our suppliers to continuously reduce the environmental impacts of chemicals, wastewater, air emissions, waste, and noise pollution. Furthermore, we require them to operate with high standards of business transparency and ethics to enable environmental resilience. Achieving net-positive sustainability in sourcing means that traditional business models must evolve.

Product Development

EY Istanbul meticulously manages all aspects of sample creation, including fabric sourcing and development, lab dips, decoration, finishing techniques, prototypes, and sales samples.

Production Follow-Up

Our process typically involves vetting factories, negotiating prices, and rigorously monitoring production and quality standards. EY Istanbul is committed to working according to an agreed-upon schedule and critical path procedure.

Quality Assurance

Our quality assurance steps involve monitoring quality at every stage of the manufacturing process and consulting with customers on technical developments and opportunities for optimizing efficiency. All necessary material tests are completed promptly, either internally or through reputable testing institutes.

Suppliers

WOMEN AND MEN TAILORING

SUITS & JACKETS & PANTS & SHIRTS & BLOUSES Our core values center on high-quality workmanship, premium raw materials, and an exceptional fit. Our suppliers utilize modern methods and high technology to provide the best quality production while strictly adhering to a high code of conduct. To best satisfy customers, suppliers offer flexible production capabilities, fast interaction, and work with minimum order quantities. Various fabrics from different countries are utilized based on customer preferences.

WOMEN, MEN, AND KIDS JERSEY

SWEATSHIRT, SWEATPANTS, POLO & T-SHIRT Suppliers provide a full-service offering, starting from article research, style design and development, sourcing of materials and trimmings, prints and embroideries using any technique, wash and dye finishing manufacture, and concluding with the final drop-shipment.

WOMEN AND MEN KNIT

We work with a wide range of subcontractors for print and embroidery. Our suppliers import 80% of the yarns used in production from top-level Italian mills, available across different price ranges. They utilize the latest knitting technology from Japanese machinery makers to produce the highest quality goods. 100% in-house production allows us to pay the utmost attention to quality and facilitates the small, flexible, and fast production runs that are key to success in today’s luxury market.

WOMEN AND MEN CASUAL PANTS, JEANS AND BERMUDAS

High-quality pants production is built upon solid know-how and experience. Our facilities possess all the special machines required for pants manufacturing.

Washing: Normal, silicone, sand, stone, chemical, enzyme, etc.
Dye & Finishing: Reactive, retro, etc. The raw materials can be sourced locally as well as from France, Italy, and wherever else required.

WOMEN AND MEN OUTERWEAR

Our vendors manufacture high-quality garments such as trench coats, casual bombers, parkas, Harringtons, puffas, goose down, quilted jackets, and casual/sport jackets and coats, featuring wool, cotton, polyester, and various blend fabrics. The raw materials can be sourced locally, from France, Italy, the Far East, and wherever else required.

WOMEN AND MEN LEATHER AND SHEARLING

Suppliers source various qualities of leather from tanneries worldwide. They employ a specialized crew of leather craftsmen and the necessary machinery. They also provide a full service, starting from article research, style design and development, sourcing materials and trimmings, manufacture, and the final drop-shipment. A particular strength is the ability to produce garments that combine different materials such as leather, shearling, and knit in the same piece.

WHY US

PERFECT MATCHMAKING: BRANDS & SUPPLIERS

Our team is committed to delivering solutions that go beyond simply matching brands with producers. EY Istanbul acts as the primary problem solver for all our partners across every phase of production.

We are your ideal solution partner for selecting the best suppliers because we proactively recognize and overcome the difficulties posed by distance and language barriers. Our team is driven by a results-oriented mindset and an unwavering commitment to execution.

EY Istanbul offers an end-to-end solution for all processes of Collection Development, including:

Vendor Search
Vendor Evaluation
Vendor Audit
Vendor Selection
Vendor Development
Strategic Sourcing

I can certainly recommend Elif Yazici as an excellent contact to bridge a cooperation between Italy and Turkey in the fashion field, either for manufacturing or merchandising. Thanks to her professionalism and high competence in either men and women luxury brands, we reached up a great cooperation.

Hassine Hellali

Moda Luxury Fashion Agent

Her professional and personal skills are remarkable. She has an in-depth knowledge of the clothing and accessory market, knows how to manage collections while she is able to choose the best suppliers and the perfect qualities according to the customer's target.

With her merchandising skills she knows perfectly how to manage the balance between suppliers and companies so that allow you to better coordinate relation with the various players in the supply chain.

Gioia Musetti

Fashion Designer

I have known Elif Yazici for 5 years including the time she successfully completed our program in Brand Management at FIT in NYC. As the founder and facilitator of the program and as a hands on apparel executive having managed and/or run various departments and businesses in Women's, Men's & Children's sportswear, I can confirm without hesitation that her ability to effectively integrate and manage sourcing, merchandising and design of fashion apparel is without a peer in her business sector... Don't hesitate to engage her!

Wm D'Arienzo Ph.D.

Founder WDA Brand Strategies & Brand Management Certificate Program/FIT