First Craft Fashion Week to be announced

To rescue tradition in design, to make proposals according to both our weather and our society and to reduce foreign influence in our commercial shops circuit are some of the purposes of the the Primera Semana de la Moda Artesanal en Cuba (First Craft Fashion Week in Cuba), that will be celebrated from October 15 to 18 at Havana’s Casa de la Amistad, as part of the activities for the Cuban Culture Day.

The event sponsored by the Cuban Association of Artists Artisans (ACCA, as per its initials in Spanish) and with the decisive support of the National Council of Visual Arts and the Cuban Fund of Cultural Assets will include children’s collections and will be attended by 48 creators from Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, and Villa Clara provinces.

As declared to the press María Salomé Morales, the event’ General Coordinator, there will not be great fashion shows with individual collections. A limit of 15 designs has been established—with a more utilitarian nature rather than artistic—for each participant to facilitate a greater representation of our designers

However, she noted, the call this occasion did not have the expected answer from the artisans from other territories of the country, something they hope to solve for future editions.

On his part, Jesús Frías stated that although the event has been organized by the ACCA Textiles Section, of which he is vice-president, some members of the Sections of Gold and Silversmith, Costume Jewelry, Leather goods and Textile goods using the Patch Work technique were also invited to exhibit their works.

All this will result in a more comprehensive proposal for the outfit that made with national resources will be exhibited by the models, all selected in collaboration with ACTUAR Agency.

The First Craft Fashion Week in Cuba, to be celebrated in the context of the activities to celebrate ACCA’s 35th anniversary in 2016, in its first night will homage deceased Rafael de León, ten years after he received the National Prize of Design. 

Source: Cubarte