• Abidin Güçkıran is one of the rare craftsmen who has managed to make his name a brand, keeping up with the developing age and constantly renewing himself in order to keep his profession alive, which he started as a child and continued to this day. Abidin Güçkıran started apprenticeship when he was only 10 years old, with one of the famous tailors of his times in Turkey and known as "Kara", Hayri Usta. He worked with Hayri Usta until he went for the military service. Abidin Güçkıran says: "Although my family forced me to put me in this job in order to acquire a profession, when I realized that this is not just a job, but an art that requires special care and labor, I also realized that I fell in love with this profession.

   

  Since then, like every master, I continue to sign the name of Abidin Güçkıran with great satisfaction, while I weaving my needlework". After completing his military service, he continued to live in Istanbul for a while and joined the Tailoring Institute established by the Ministry of Education. In the 1960´s he worked in tailor shops in Beyoğlu, which at that time preferred by many famous names to sew their suits.

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 Thus, as someone who has learned both the fashion of that day and the intricacies of the profession, he returns to his hometown Gaziantep.He starts his own tailor shop when he was just 26 years old. At that time, he started a new era in men's clothing in Gaziantep.

 

 

 

Guckiran stated that he started to apply the fashion in Gaziantep, which he followed and mastered in Istanbul. Although it was very difficult to get it accepted at first, he started to sew more modern models instead of classical ones. In time, he changed the understanding in fashion in Gaziantep. He expresses his concerns with the future of his profession; "While nearly 5 thousand people were working in tailoring in Gaziantep, mass production of the ready-made clothing sector started to reach people, with the stores opened one after another. That caused the tailoring profession to disappear gradually, today only 50 people are trying to keep this profession alive, most of them could not resist the investments made and they are already started repairing the products, which are purchased from fabricated brands.”