As fashion week month kicks off, top designers from around the world have begun displaying their designs for the 2017 spring/summer season. While all eyes are on the top luxury brands, Turkish designers are also in the spotlight due to their prominent designs and shows, and have been taking over the runaway. Here are some of the most sought-after Turkish designers from the different fashion weeks:Bora AksuThe İzmir-born fashion designer has already taken over the British fashion scene at the ongoing London Fashion Week with his show last Friday. He received his first award for fashion design at the İzmir Pret Fair and enrolled in Central Saint Martin's in London. He held his first fashion show at London Fashion Week in 2002 and earned a permanent spot at London Fashion Week . Hailed as the star of the show by The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Independent, Aksu's collection also attracted the eye of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabanna, who purchased pieces to use as inspiration. Known for his distinctive signature style, Aksu is popular for his elegant and romantic designs with "a darker twist." Throughout his career as a fashion designer, Aksu has collaborated with international brands such as Adidas, Converse, Anthropologie and People Tree and has designed costumes for Clare Maguire, Tori Amos, Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller Little Boots and the Cathy Marston Project dance company. In his latest runway show, the fantasy involved an invocation of rural Greece in homage to the designer's late grandmother and her lifestyle defined by the Aegean Sea and the coastal city of İzmir along with rural Greece where peasants wore beautiful, extremely revealing hand-embroidered gowns with sheer mesh panels on the backs and sides. The collection was called "a mixture of the traditional and the eye-catching," many pale cherry pinks, yellows and blues give the clothes a timeless feel. He opted for many high-necked dresses with the backs totally exposed, creating an unusual but attractive silhouette.Erdem MoralıoğluCommonly known simply as Erdem, the designer is not only one of the most sought-after figures at fashion shows, but is also the top choice of Duchess of Cambridge, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Michelle Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow, Emma Watson and Julianne Moore. Born to a British mother and Turkish father, Erdem graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto and completed his internship at the fashion house of late iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and Diane von Furstenberg. He established his ready to wear brand ERDEM in 2005 in London. Known for his use of experimental textiles, vibrant prints and detailed craftsmanship, Erdem has created a beautiful world of the delicate mixed with the bold. Erdem has also received numerous accolades over the years, including the 2008 British Fashion Council's Fashion Forward Award, the 2010 inaugural Vogue/British Fashion Council Designer Fashion Fund Award, the 2012 British Fashion Council's New Establishment Award, the 2013 British Fashion Council's Red Carpet Award and the 2014 British Fashion Council's Womenswear Designer of the Year Award. On Monday, Erdem presented his latest collection at London Fashion Week. Erdem, who always infuses his shows with a sense of drama and haunting beauty, did not let down his devoted fashion lovers this time as well. Models wore large, floppy black hats that obscured their faces, gliding on a weathered boardwalk that appeared to weave in and out of water. The dreamy clothes reflected the brooding nautical theme, crafted in washed-out shades of blue and silvery grey, and all the frocks seemed to be covered in miles of rolling ruffles, lace, frills and velvet ribbons. As always with Erdem, the devil is in the couture level of detail. Little gemstones twinkle on brocade gowns and some of the embroidery is stunning in its intricacy, especially the rich Oriental-style florals overlaid on sheer delicate fabrics.Hüseyin ÇağlayanHüseyin Çağlayan, known as "Hussein Chalayan" in the fashion world, is a British-Turkish Cypriot fashion designer. Çağlayan was born in Nicosia in 1970 and graduated from Türk Maarif Koleji in his hometown. After immigrating to London in 1978, he studied for a national diploma in fashion and clothing at Warwickshire School of Arts, and proceeded to study Fashion Design at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London. His graduate collection in 1993, titled "The Tangent Flows," contained clothes which he had buried in a back yard and exhumed just before the show where they were presented with an accompanying text that explained the process. The ritual of burial and resurrection was said to give the garments a dimension that referenced to life, death and urban decay. The work attracted the attention of the Browns fashion boutique in London who borrowed the collection to feature in their window display. Çağlayan's fashion shows are characterized by minimal sets and a mood of suspense, incorporating elements of contemporary interiors, urban architecture, and geometric structures. In the shows the conceptual and theoretical inspirations behind his garments are played out across the body. A technology and architecture lover, Çağlayan is famous for his visionary work and designs. Among his best-known works are a coffee table that doubles as a wooden skirt, a paper dress that can be folded into an envelope and mailed and armchair covers that can be used as dresses. One of the designs shown at one of his shows is that of breakable dresses, which he created to represent the fragile shell that we build around ourselves using technology and how easily these shells can be broken. The dress with plastic bubbles shows how the world around us influences the way we dress. This season, Çağlayan will present his latest innovative collection at Paris Fashion Week, which is scheduled to take place during the last week of September.Ümit BenanMen's wear guru Ümit Benan has been on the fashion radar for some time now. He is known to blend Turkish culture with masculinity archetypes from around the world. Benan was born to Turkish parents in 1980 in Stuttgart, Germany. He moved to Istanbul when he was two years old and lived there until he was 15, dividing his time between school and work at his family's textile company. After graduating from high school in Lugano, Switzerland in 1998, he moved to Boston to study marketing and public relations at university. During his time in the United States he decided to become a fashion designer and spent summers in Milan taking drawing lessons. He presented his first menswear collection in Milan for the spring/summer 2013 season. For his latest show at Paris Fashion Week, Benan took his inspiration from the Far East and blended Japanese culture with Turkish elements.