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I saw a milkman, he took the money from the basket and put<br />

a bottle of milk in it. After so many years, I opened Boutique<br />

Faruk in front of the door of Opera Onur Bazaar where i had<br />

stood once."<br />

He passed the university entrance exam and started to study<br />

English Language Teaching at Marmara University although<br />

he could only say "help" when he was graduated from secondary<br />

school. He went on playing football as well. He played<br />

in the football clubs called Urfaspor, Tophane Tayfunspor Konya<br />

Ereğlispor and Adanaspor. He reached till Beşiktaş A Team.<br />

While he was playing in Karagumrukspor football club, he<br />

gave up playing football because of meniscus tear. He started<br />

to work in a fabric store belonging to a relative of him, then<br />

he met the fabrics that played an important role in his professional<br />

success and he learnt all of the features of fabrics. "To<br />

be a good designer, a person needs two important properties:<br />

to have a "good" eye and to have a "good" fingertip. I<br />

love fabrics as if they were my best friends and my colour chart<br />

is always with me. I know fabrics' language very well, when i<br />

touch fabrics they tell me what to do. To have a "good" eye<br />

means a talent that helps interpreting fabrics with a different<br />

viewpoint." he says.<br />

He came to Kadıköy with a paper in his hand to get the money<br />

of his relative from a tradesman. The destination was Kadıköy<br />

Opera Bazaar where he had looked at the cinema poster<br />

when he had first came to Istanbul. "Wait for checkout, I will<br />

work and pay your debt off." He said to the owner of the shop<br />

who was standing idle. "I really worked hard, everything went<br />

well, i started to pay all the debts off, i paid the last debts on<br />

an eve day and I brought the debts to an end. Then i bought a<br />

truck for the owner of the shop by the money that I saved up,<br />

he said me I had better own the shop, so I paid the key money<br />

and became the owner of the shop." he says.<br />

Then Faruk Saraç opened his first shop called "Boutique<br />

Faruk" in 1981 with the clothes that he had bought from<br />

abroad. One day, a woman came to his shop with her son,<br />

the boy said by insisting: "I want trademark clothes...". This<br />

reproach caused a dramatic changement in Faruk Saraç's life.<br />

Our designer gave all the clothes back in the evening of that<br />

day. Then a process started which leaded our designer to<br />

be a trademark with his own name just like Giorgia Armani,<br />

Christian Dior and Chanel. In 1987, he created the label "Faruk<br />

Saraç" in the form of signature with his own handwriting.<br />

From this date, he started to labour on his work till midnights.<br />

In 1991 he opened a shop in Swiss Hotel and another one in<br />

Nişantaşı. He started to sewing custom clothes which is called<br />

"Haute Couture" by bringing an iron from his home and employing<br />

a versed mechanic, on the offer of one of his clients<br />

who came to his shop with his own fabric and wanted Faruk<br />

to sew a dress for him. The burgundy-coloured suit that he<br />

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