DOHA: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) is organising the first cultural forum for folk costume designers and manufacturers from tomorrow until April 13 from 5pm to 10pm at Building 15 and 18.
Eighteen Qatari designers in addition to participants from Turkey, Syria, Morocco and Iran are taking part at the forum.
The forum aims to enhance the national identity with all its cultural, historical and social features through traditional costumes with all related handicrafts such as embroidery. It will also host several exhibitions displaying the creativity of traditional costume-making. Some of the pieces which will be showcased were made in contemporary style by designers such as Lulua Al Kubaisi and Fakhriya Al Ansari.
It will also include some fashion shows of traditional models from different countries in the region participating in the forum to introduce their national fashion.
Moreover, the forum which comes within the cultural project “My national costumes are my identity” launched by Katara, will feature lectures by some famous fashion designers such as Salma Al Nuaimi who will speak on
“The aesthetic values in the Qatari women’s costumes” and a similar lecture by an Iranian fashion designer.
