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Fashion and Design Festival

The whole palette of modern art, bright images and bold experiments has made the Fashion and Design Festival the most colorful event of the week.

“We have been getting prepared for the festival for a few months, because we needed to cover the whole spectrum of youth culture in this field,” says Doctor of Arts, artistic director of the festival Kamola Akilova. “We decided to split the participants into categories - folk, theatrical dress, fashion lab and debut.”

Festival participants breathed new life into the usual dress, using traditional materials even in male images. An ornament of suzani inspired the famous designer Saida Amir for the creation of the new collection. At the master class, she introduced fashion designers to the complicated and long journey from idea to implementation.

Presenting their collections at the Fashion Lab show, the designers were inspired by music, architecture, they tried new shapes, fabrics, giving all the way to imagination. Of course, not all clothes are designed for everyday wear. Nevertheless, the designers gain huge experience and get emancipated in the process of creativity. During the master class, students of primary courses of the Kamoliddin Behzod National Institute of Arts and Design demonstrated the process of ‘laboratory’ work from the stage, and teachers commented on every step of creating the designs. That resulted in six interesting designs made of paper, plastic bags, and coarse calico.

An exhibition on ‘Pleasures of Batik’ and expositions of works of young artists under the festival presented the entire range of fine and decorative arts.