Water
Washing is the most water-intensive part of what we do, so it is where we pay the closest attention, choosing techniques and cycle settings that use less water per garment where the finish allows.
Since 2017 · Istanbul
Denim and ready-to-wear, made in Istanbul.
We manufacture garments for European apparel brands: a 180-person team, a 4,500 m² facility, and the steady habits of a business built slowly.
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About
A manufacturing team built around flexibility and care.
Bluefun was founded in 2017 by Ayhan Canlıoğlu and M. Ali Dirik as a marketing and sales organisation inside the production facilities of Canlıoğlu Textile, a manufacturer with roots going back to the 1990s. The aim was quiet and practical: build manufacturing teams that actually understand the brands they make for. After fifteen years in the European denim industry, the founders wanted a business set up to work the way their customers needed it to work.
Since 2022, Bluefun Apparels has operated out of a 4,500 m² facility in Istanbul, producing denim and non-denim ready-to-wear. It took close to five years to assemble the current team of 180 skilled people. What holds them together is a short set of values the company returns to whenever a decision gets hard: innovation, flexibility, sustainability, punctual delivery, and social compliance.
What we stand for
- Innovation
- Flexibility
- Sustainability
- Punctual delivery
- Social compliance
- People on the team
- Manufacturing space
- Year founded
From our founder
The story of Bluefun Apparels started in 2017, after leaving behind a career of 15 years at Isko Denim, where I had experienced almost every stage of denim fabric evolution, cultivated in European denim industry and witnessed probably the most innovative era of global denim industry. During those years, I dreamed about a business model to create difference in apparel sourcing industry through its flexible methods of operation, its commitment to innovation, its variety of sourcing partners, code of business principles, socially & environmentally responsible structure and through wide range of products from jeans to chinos, shirts to overshirts, jackets to blazers and skirts to dresses.
Finally, my dream come true.
What we make
Denim and ready-to-wear, across seven product families.
We produce for European fashion brands across full-package denim and non-denim categories, from everyday basics to more tailored, considered pieces.
How we work
Nine steps, from early trend to finished shipment.
Each stage has its own specialists and its own quality checks. Here is how a piece moves through the facility once a brief lands on our desks.
01Trend Forecasting
Our product managers and design team travel regularly to fairs, trendsetting shops, and the cities where things surface first. We watch what is actually being worn, not only what is being shown, and bring that reading back into every season we work on.
02Design
Our in-house design team works across the full arc, from first mood-board through to final presentation. The range spans clean, simple casualwear through to more intricate, edgier silhouettes, whichever direction a brand is pulling toward.
03Fabric Sourcing
Our sourcing team listens first, then interprets. Our fabric specialists read where the market is heading, test washes and finishes widely, and build a material palette that fits the collection rather than forcing the collection to fit the fabric.
04Modelling Room
Eighteen experienced pattern makers, fluent in both Gerber and Optitex, handle every pattern requirement that comes through. The room is set up to move quickly on revisions without letting accuracy slip.
05Sewing
A pair of jeans is made up of 19 to 42 parts, depending on the style. Each seamstress runs one machine and owns one stage, and a garment passes through 50 to 80 stages before it is complete. The discipline is what holds the quality.
06Cutting
Fabric is rolled out across 30-metre tables and layered to a height of 50 to 70 plies, depending on the order. Pattern paper is pinned on top of the pile so every panel is cut cleanly, repeatably, and to the same tolerance.
07Washing
Our design and washing developers work through a wide catalogue of washes and finishes to land on the right treatment for each collection. A separate technical team keeps researching and testing new washing techniques, season after season.
08Shipment
Once the final quality checks are signed off, garments are packed and shipped to their destination. Healthy working standards and our registered compliance commitments sit behind every shipment that leaves the building.
09Packaging
Packing is handled to each customer's specification, from hangers and polybags to folded, tagged, and retail-ready, so the product arrives the way the brand wants it on the shop floor.
Sustainability
A quieter, more careful way of making clothes.
Denim manufacturing uses a lot of water, a lot of fabric, and a lot of hours. We try to be honest about that. Our approach is to keep improving how we wash, who we source from, and how we treat the people inside the building, rather than claiming more than we can stand behind. We work on it one season at a time.
Fabric
We work with long-standing fabric suppliers who share our view on quality and responsibility. Where customers ask for certified or lower-impact materials, we source them through partners we already trust.
People
It took close to five years to build the team of 180 people who work here. Social compliance, fair conditions, and steady, long-term employment are the things that made that possible, and the things that keep it that way.
Compliance
Committed to quality and responsibility.
Our operations are built on clear social and environmental standards. We maintain registered certifications covering quality management, workplace practice, and environmental responsibility, and we renew them as part of our normal operating discipline. Specific certifications available on request for brands evaluating us as a supplier.
Registered certifications covering quality, labour practice, and environmental standards.
Get in touch
Start a conversation.
Tell us about the project: product type, volumes, target timeline. We will come back with a considered answer, not a generic one.
- AddressCumhuriyet Mah. Dersaadet Cad. No:16-A / 887 Sultangazi İstanbul
- Emailinfo@bluefun.com.tr
- Phone+90 212 668 90 99
- HoursMonday–Friday, 08:00–18:00