Fashion Film Festival's video: In Conversation: Matthew Zorpas

Blogger, influencer, creative consultant and entrepreneur Matthew Zorpas in conversation with Tuna Yilmaz on menswear today, the power of social media, the future of fashion communication and the destiny of global fashion weeks… Matthew Zorpas is a Cypriot London-based creative consultant. He graduated with a BA in Public Relations from London College of Communications and with a MSc in Global Media and Communication from London School of Economics. In 2012 he founded TheGentlemanBlogger and has since collaborated with a vast selection of respected brands such as Bentley, Hugo BOSS, Harrods, Tod's, LabSeries, Johnnie Walker, Hackett, Massimo Dutti, Clinique, Montblanc and Bicester Village to name a few. Developing audiovisual material for brands such as Cutler and Gross, IWC Schaffhausen, Dsquared, and Mini Cooper. He has teamed up with Canary Islands Tourist Board, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Jumeirah Hotel & Resorts as part of travel partnerships exploring destinations and earthly paradises. Matthew was friends of the brand for IWC for two years and notably fronted the Gianfranco Ferré Fragrance worldwide campaign in 2016. 2017 was a seminal year with expanding his scope by becoming Nespresso Global Ambassador for 2018, a Breitling Global Ambassador, whilst also collaborating with furniture brand none other than Kartell as well as consulting the refurbishment of The Trafalgar St. James, whilst also promoting the expansion of Heathrow Duty-Free shopping in Terminal 5 with the introduction of Personal Shopping. As an embassador of men’s style, Matthew has been recognised as one of the Best Dressed Men in Britain by Esquire magazine UK in 2010 while GQ Taiwan named him one of the top best dressed men in the world for 2013. More recently British GQ crowned him one of the top ten best dressed men on instagram and honorably made him a judge for the British GQ Grooming Awards 2017. Apart from being a fulltime gentleman and running TheGentlemanBlogger, Matthew teaches luxury management and digital marketing at the international Istituto Marangoni in London. He also contributes to London College of Fashion, Regents College, Winchester School of Arts and PUC-rio in Brazil. Subscribe; https://bit.ly/2Ylsz0z Other videos; - Official Selection 2020: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuoQnghvbm9l3DYMNwWyWyqnl7s_vHeOc -Fashion Documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuoQnghvbm9lGdBZCzmsa-u_jY4c18sPx -Talks, Panels & Masterclasses: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuoQnghvbm9mvjh4VdCfCgrfTlIzTE17B -Official Selection 2017: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuoQnghvbm9neiRGJrqPrU2K_XVRjfGfr -Official Selection 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuoQnghvbm9n_k2MiEj-Pi1e6KKqi5sCL https://www.fffamsterdam.com https://www.fffistanbul.com/ https://www.instagram.com/fashionfilmfestivalistanbul/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/fffistanbul https://twitter.com/fashionfilm_TR https://www.linkedin.com/company/fashionfilmfestivalistanbul After two small events with fashion film screenings, Q&A's and parties (Corona presents Fashion & Film Vol.1 and Fashion & Film Vol.2 held in 2012), 2015 set the mark for the inaugural international fashion film festival for Istanbul organized by Tuna Yilmaz. As a hot spot for fashion, film and design fields, Istanbul has now its own fashion film festival since 2015. A comprehensive program of fashion films are presented to the audience alongside capsule talks with names from fashion and film, The festival also provides a detailed program dedicated to cutting edge design works, art videos, fashion documentaries, workshops, masterclasses and unforgettable parties.