<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/mert-kantul/index.html" dsn=""><featured/><pubDate>8/8/2024, 1:44:20 PM</pubDate><title>Mert Kantul</title><exhibition_year>2024</exhibition_year><exhibition_title>Annual Exhibition</exhibition_title><exhibitor_name_first>Mert</exhibitor_name_first><exhibitor_name_last>Kantul</exhibitor_name_last><exhibitor_department>BFA Fashion Design</exhibitor_department><exhibitor_portfolio/><exhibitor_bio>My name is Mert Kantul. I’ve spent majority of my life in Istanbul, Turkey. As a freshmen in high school, I moved to the United States and spent 4 years in a boarding school in Santa Barbara. My interest in fashion grew with being a shoe collector and it grew out of shoes into the fashion industry. I am a graduating Senior.</exhibitor_bio><exhibitor_bio_image><img src="/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/mert-kantul/images/27_bestwork-compressed_page_9_5660-350.webp" alt="Mert Kantul"/></exhibitor_bio_image><exhibitor_thumb_image><img src="/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/mert-kantul/images/bestwork-compressed_page_9-300.webp" alt="Mert Kantul"/></exhibitor_thumb_image></item>