An important part of our cultural history. By MIka Panagou -Costume designer and researcher In the past, cloth was made by our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers before it became an industrial technique. Each local costume was specific and marked family history, social status, and origin. It was part of a more complex cultural-geographic history and […]
Textiles & Embroidery tradition in the Balkans. Read More »
DEIMANTE BULBENKAITE Home In the last couple of months, most of us had some time to, in one way or another, rethink our relationship with our clothes. I know I did. And not only as a person who has been working in fashion for more than a decade, analyzing and questioning why and how it
Pandemic Has Changed Our Relationship With Fashion. Now What? Read More »
Tradition is a critical value-based element missing in today’s fashion world. A large majority of people are following fast-fashion trends, which are neither sustainable nor reflects our diverse cultures. The so-called fast-fashion makes us all look all the same, bland and limit our self-expression. I believe that fashion’s mission should be the one allowing us
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By Edelhida Dervisevic, Bravo organization, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian rug, which is mostly of oriental origin and looks, represents an important cultural heritage for Bosniaks but also the rest of the nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are decorated with colorful painted ornaments, which are connecting the impact of the Orient and Balkan-themed elements.The historian Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888-1959)
Fashioration project is an Erasmus+ project related with Costume tradition and contemporary fashion
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