Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Palestinians Designers .. Eye of the heritage and the other to the West

Graduates of fashion crossing the Going on in their minds and ideas through fashion



View from the inside outward» was the title of the fashion competition in which twenty young Palestinians to design structures reflect the feelings, and is Bdakhlhm of feelings and ideas.

In the view of the German school designed and Susanna Comber, who worked in the past two months to train these young graduates from the Fashion and Textile Institute in Beit Sahour in the last years, it has succeeded in its mission, which was the motivation to bring out their feelings and ideas through exciting designs.

The Comber told «Reuters»: «These young designers have learned everything in theory in the field of design, and periodic merely encouraged to consider the application of what they have learned in theory on the ground, and surprise, I found myself in front of the distinctive».
The «number of participants chose the sea and others the night, Rose, marine biology, birds, flowers were selected and glass design ideas that were presented in Ramallah for two days».
It should be noted that the effectiveness was organized by the German Goethe Institute in Ramallah, occupied West Bank, in collaboration with the Institute of fashion and textile design in Beit Sahour, and the opportunity for participants to publicize the abilities of young people and a Palestinian fashion designers are able to innovation and competition.

This is indicated by the young Taher Aller, one of the graduates, saying that he attended three of the evening dresses in black, dubbed «what we want in the middle of the night», adding that «the workshop and the celebration Tsamimna introduced to the public an opportunity to publicize determined that there is in Palestine, especially Design from its inception until the end of our work, from painting to sewing to the minors. This tell us, because we have learned all these principles designed to enable any advantage of introducing any changes he wants, at any stage of its work ». The only thing that disturbed him Aller was the lack of professional models, only the view of «not enough to work well designed, you need to model appropriate to their sizes and expertise in providing such offers to show the form in which it wishes». She designed Ghada young Muslims, with the final touches put to the group, which chose its name «Rose»: «These models are suitable for presentation, but not all the presents can wear, but certainly refers to the capacity and potential of the designer. Each community traditions, and what can fit women in the West may not be suitable for our environment and vice versa .. True, part of what we have had a theater, but the majority can be worn on various occasions ». The young designer peaceful Ismail, who inspired formation of pools of Solomon, where archaeological fact that the Bethlehem side, he expressed ambitions to go global. He said «that the offer might be the beginning towards a truly global organization, I am designing model and oversaw the story and sew myself, and was adopted in the silk and to work hand». Not only participate in this workshop, students and graduates of the Fashion and Textile Institute in Beit Sahour, which was founded in 1994, but also to teachers at the Institute as the best mother Heidi, which she and a colleague decided to participate in the design adopted by the embroidery used in traditional Palestinian dress . She added, referring to a short black skirt embroidered with colors inspired by those associated with the old Palestinian Balsoub: «What we have done is to update the traditional dress so commensurate with the times without a name that the Palestinian heritage». As a result of the reactions that I have encountered offers the Comber seek to transfer the offer to both Berlin and Washington and Cairo.

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