Turkey’s first fashion brand to become global, Mavi, was founded in Istanbul in 1991. Leading jeans brand in Turkey since the last 28 years, Mavi is now sold in over 4000 department stores and specialty chains in 50 countries including the US, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Russia. Mavi has over 285 retail stores with flagships in New York, Vancouver, Istanbul, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Dietzenbatch, Hamburg, Oberhausen, Leipzig and Moscow. Apart from its own retailing network of 285 stores, Mavi is available at leading international chain stores including Nordstrom, Lord&Taylor, Brooklyn Industries, Peek&Cloppenburg, Breuninger and David Jones, and is sold next to premium and high-end denim brands.
According to the independent researches, Mavi stands out among the best brands in abroad as well as Turkey. In 2006 Time Magazine placed Mavi amongst the top 16 best jeans brand worldwide in its A-List. In 2009 Mavi was chosen “the best place to buy jeans” by Georgia Straight weekly magazine of Canada. In 2012 the world-famous Sportswear magazine chose Mavi to be the ‘Best Denim Brand’.