On Wednesday, June 25, the State Museum of Applied Arts in Tashkent (Rakatboshi street, 15) will host the opening of an exhibition of national Romanian costumes, combined with elements of modern clothing design, inspired by traditional Uzbek clothing.
The exhibition will be open to visitors from June 25, 2025 to July 2, 2025.
The event is organized by the Embassy of Romania in Uzbekistan with the kind support of the State Museum of Applied Arts of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the participation of the exquisite Uzbek fashion designer Marhamat Umarova.
This is the second joint project of the Embassy and the Uzbek fashion designer. The first event was an exhibition at the Gallery of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan from June 21, 2024 to June 27, 2024.
The exhibition will be opened by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Uzbekistan H.E. Mr. Daniel Cristian Ciobanu and the Director of the State Museum of Applied Arts of the Republic of Uzbekistan Mr. Ismat Yusupov.
The event is dedicated to the International Day of the Romanian Blouse - a garment included in the UNESCO List of Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
The day of June 24 was established by the Decree of the President of Romania as the day to celebrate the traditional Romanian blouse, a valuable piece of national folk costume, which has been made for centuries in the homes of Romanian peasants from natural materials, woven at home, and decorated with hand-sewn ornaments made of yarn, dyed in natural colors. The ornaments, which vary depending on the region, are of rare beauty and have a meaning lost in the depths of centuries. Marhamat Umarova is a fashion designer, founder of the MARU brand. She is a holder of the UNESCO Certificate of Excellence and a trainer in UNESCO projects. She represented Uzbekistan with a collection at the US State Department, Harvard, Berlin, London and other international fashion shows. Her participation in this project turns the traditional exhibition of Romanian folk costumes from Tashkent into a meeting of cultures and textile traditions of Romania and the Republic of Uzbekistan - a delicate inclusion of Uzbek textile traditions in a traditional Romanian costume.
Romania continues to pay great attention to the development of relations with Uzbekistan at all levels, including in the cultural sphere, as a link that can best bring our peoples closer together.
