Madam Meryam Pacaci, wife of the Turkiye ambassador hosts the show at the Turkiye residence
Mahnoor Ansar
ISLAMABAD: Madam Meryam Pacaci, the wife of the Turkiye Ambassador to Pakistan Mehmet Pacaci hosted a rare fashion show titled “Ottoman Fashion Show”, introducing famous Turkiye fashion designer Cemile Gul in Pakistan.
Spouses of the diplomatic corps were invited to be part of the show and admire skills of Ms. Cemile Gul, had flown all the way from Turkiye to Pakistan to make her works known to Pakistanis and the international community living in Pakistan as well.
The caftans designed and produced by Cemile Gül, a fashion designer from Kütahya, who sewed clothes from Ottoman motifs for the wives of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister and some ministers, reflect the magnificence of that period.
Gül said that after working as an embroidery teacher at the Kütahya Public Education Center for about 20 years, she retired and opened a 12-square-meter workshop.
Stating that she later expanded the concept of business and established and put into operation an art gallery, museum and showroom, Gül said, “We have a fashion house in Bursa. Here, too, we design and produce women’s clothes from the Ottoman period, henna clothes that young people can wear, evening dresses and wedding dresses. In addition, we are trying to keep Ottoman embroidery alive in home textiles.”
Cemile GÜL’s entrepreneurial story began in 1978 when she enrolled in the “Ready-to-Wear” department of Kütahya Girls’ Vocational High School. She adorns her dreams with her passion for dressing up as much as she loves to dress, Ottoman clothing culture and hand-embroidered patterns.
“You can’t get enough of success. Once you have achieved success, you cannot stop there, you need to be able to set an example for the next generations”, GÜL, who also graduated from Dumlupınar University, Department of “Leather and Apparel”, has also pioneered creating added value for the economy by training many colleagues with more than 20 years of Public Education Center Teaching in the field of embroidery.
She has set goal in the education process that starts with studentship, continues with apprenticeship, and ends with journeyman and mastery. One day, she will have a business and introduce the Ottoman culture first to Turkey and then to the world; It will ensure that the art of embroidery reaches where it should be with its clothes decorated with traditional motifs and home textile decoration products.
In addition, the art gallery in Kütahya, which she decorated as the “Kütahya House” and exhibited products, has become one of the important places visited by local and foreign tourists.
