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 English Department of Business as an honors student in 2001.
At university, she specialized in marketing and later worked in important positions with corporate companies such as Turkish Exporters Assembly, Eczacıbaşı, Koç Holding Company and Sütaş 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 business life and started working on creating her own ready wear brand which she had been dreaming about since her childhood times.
She started her journey by writing a blog at first and receiving education on Fashion Design at Advanced Technical School for Girls at the same time. As the number of followers on her blog grew, she started drawing attention and became the very first blogger in Turkey to prepare a collection for a ready wear brand. In this way, she prepared the “Bengi Söney for Okçu” collection made up of 20 pieces for Okçu Triko Company in year 2012.