Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and was educated both in Cyprus and England.
1993	Graduated Central Saint Martins BA (Honours) degree in Fashion
1997	Talk at the Tate Gallery on the parallels between fashion, art and architecture with Zaha Hadid and Michael Bracewell
1998	Current/See: Michael Clark Company, costume design
1999	Handel's Messiah, directed by Eric Fraad, John Jay College Theatre, New York, costume design
2000	Appointed Creative Director of Asprey
2001	C Magazine launch, curated and edited by Hussein Chalayan
2003	Temporal Meditations Spring/Summer 2004 Mens Collection, short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Pitti Uomo, Florence and Palais du Tokyo, Paris
	Place to Passage, short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at The Truman Brewery, London
2004	Opening Hussein Chalayan Shop, Daikanyama, Tokyo Place to Passage, screening Proje 4 L Museum, Istanbul Place/Non-Place, airport event, Heathrow, London
	Place to Passage, sceening Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva Anaesthetics, short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2005	Place to Passage (installation), Centraal Museum, Utrecht Place to Passage, Cano Studios, Madrid Anaesthetics, Jaeso von Puttkamer Gallery, Berlin
2006	Hussein Chalayan awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2006
	Compassion Fatigue – short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screened at Garanti Galeri, Istanbul
	Runway Rocks collaboration piece with Swarovski
	Absent Presence – short film directed by Hussein Chalayan, screene a the Venice Biennale as the main representation for the Turkish Pavilion.