Who is Bengi Söney?
Bengi Söney was born on 12 April 1977 in İstanbul. After she finished Saint Benoît French High School in 1996, she graduated from Koç University Business Administration as an honor roll student in 2001.
At university, she has specialized in marketing and later she worked in multinational corporate companies such as Eczacıbaşı, Koç Holding, Sütaş and Turkish Exporters Assembly for many years. She got married in 2004. She gave birth to her first child in 2009 and had her son Yaman. She moved to İzmir in 2010 in connection with her husband’s work. She worked at her own family’s company for a while. Later she completely quit her professional career and started working on creating her own ready-to-wear brand which she had been dreaming about since her childhood times.
She started her journey by writing a blog at first and taking courses on Fashion Design at the same time. As the number of followers on her blog grew, she started attracting attention and became the very first blogger in Turkey to prepare a collection for a ready-to-wear brand. In this way, she prepared the “Bengi Söney for Okçu” collection made up of 20 pieces of knitwear for Okçu Triko Company in year 2012.