In the last few weeks and days I've been a bit busy following different art and fashion events for various publications. I promise I'll catch up with London Fashion Week soon (though Russian readers can already read my reports - together with those penned by editor Julia Vydolob - for online magazine Look At Me here - many thanks, Julia, for your hard work and translations!).
In the meantime, since today London Fashion Week focuses on menswear, let's look at how specific details from traditional costumes can inspire contemporary fashion designers.
The pictures in this post show the details of the trousers that are part of a groom's wedding suit (on display at the British Museum) from Galičnik, a mountain village in the Republic of Macedonia.
The suit includes a red jacket decorated with metal thread braiding and trousers with stripes forming decorative motifs on the front and at the back. According to the description accompanying this particular costume, it was made by the village tailors from locally woven wool cloth. Don't you think the appliqued elements formed by the stripes could be somehow reinvented in a modern key to create geometrical motifs on men's trousers?
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