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His life started in Şanlıurfa… He lost his mum when he was
a child and he was dreaming of being a footballer… he was
inspired by his father’s fastidiousness and elegance… An unforgettable
advice from his father: “Have a good job and be
helpful for the society”… He came to Istanbul for his university
education and he went on his carrier there. He is our
first male fashion designer. Being affected by the line of Bedri
Rahmi Eyuboğlu that says: “The colour has been everything
that exists in the universe…”, he used the colour burgundy,
green and blue in man clothing… Although he wasn't
trained in fashion and tailoring, he is successful thanks to his
talent. He is a stylist who is still designing without using computer
and he never leaves his colour chart from his hand. He
doesn't need any stylists and designers, he also does fittings
himself. He is the first and the only one who has got a Vocational
School of Design attached to the General Directorate
of Foundations. And he is also the first one having used the
first bartering technique and having designed the uniforms of
National Team.
We are going to treat the life story, the education and the
professional success of Faruk Saraç, a person who is so shy
that he cannot tell his surname and that he cannot attend
openings alone.
Faruk Saraç was born in 1955 in Urfa where the colour yellow
dominate apart from the blue sky colour and which has a
scorched geography being 50C under shadow. He is the second
child of a family having three children. His father was an
an officer in a bank. He says that his father, who is Faruk's idol
in elegance, never went out without wearing a tie and having
a fastidious personality, he was always careful about wearing.
"Our home was situated in bazaar. At lunch time, my father
used to come home on foot, then he used to take off his suits
and wear his pyjamas, after having had his lunch he used to
take a nap then iron his suits himself, wear them again and go
back to his work." He says about his father.
His mother Cemile went to sewing course at Art Institude. Little
Faruk was watching his mum with admire while she was
sewing clothes for her children with a pedal sewing machine.
Sometimes Faruk helped his mother while she was covering
the quilts that had been cleaned. He was a naughty child, he
started primary school in Nizip and he went on his primary and
secondary education in the center of Urfa. He started playing
football when he was at primary school and he joined Young
Team of UrfaSpor. In 1973 he came to Istanbul from which
he would never go back. He walked from Harem to Kadıköy
very early in the morning in accordance with the address in his
hand. In those years, there was an opera theater there and
he says: "I watched for 10 or 15 minutes the poster of Yıldız
Tezcan and Ahmet Sezgin, at those times, people in Kadıköy
used to put money down with baskets through apartments.
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