Remzi Cemil İpekçi (born 5 August 1948) is a Turkish
fashion designer
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.
Life
İpekçi was born on 5 August 1948 in
Istanbul
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. His paternal family are from
Thessaloniki
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. Through his father, he's a distant relative of
Sabbatai Zevi, and a cousin of
İsmail Cem and
Abdi İpekçi
Abdi İpekçi (9 August 1929 – 1 February 1979) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers ''Milliyet'' which then had a centre ...
. From his mother's side, he is a relative of soprano
Leyla Gencer. Cemil İpekçi, who comes from İpekçi family, has been living in Istanbul since the age of 5 years. In an interview with
Fatih Altaylı
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Life
He graduated from Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. Fatih Altaylı stepped into journalism at the newspaper ''Cumhuriyet ...
, he described himself as a
conservative.
Career
He finished his education in
England
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's
Royal Academy of Arts
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and graduated in 1971.
Between 1972-75, he worked as a stylist. In 1975, he founded the fashion house Tzagane. In 1979, a new branch of Tzagane was opened in
Nice
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. Until 1984, he worked on promoting Turkish and Anatolian culture in both of his fashion houses. In 1984 he set up the Haute Couture fashion house in Istanbul and returned to contemporary night fashion. Until the 1990s, Turkish and Anatolian motifs took a break in his work, but this break ended in 1992, with his new collection "Suzeni".
On 3 January 2008, he announced that he would not organise a fashion show at the universities until the
headscarf ban is lifted.
Cemil İpekçi: "Türban serbest kalana kadar defile yapmayacağım"
Milliyet, 2 January 2008
References
External links
"Yine aşk galip", Şule Çizmeci, 1 October 2005, Radikal
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1948 births
Turkish fashion designers
Turkish LGBT artists
LGBT fashion designers
Living people
21st-century Turkish LGBT people