Kids Gone Styled

08.05.2010

Annual Festival of Children’s Fashion has taken place in Tashkent

Sparkling glares in the eyes, happy smiles, children's sincerity and elevated mood ruled the holiday – Republican Festival of Children's Fashion Bolajonlar-Shirintoylar 2010 (Kids, Sweet Kids). The annual event is organized under the aegis of the Fund Forum and the Association of Modelers of Uzbekistan Osiyo Ramzi (Symbol of Asia).

To present the children such a “trendy” holiday has turned into a tradition, and this year’s festival is already the fifth. Throughout the years of this unique project’s existence, the festival has got rather wide popularity among both spectators and designers. Inspired with “colors of life”, the fashion designers create their inimitable collections that are presented to the people’s judging. This year festival was distinct in a great number of design works. 48 talented fashion designers have delighted spectators’ view with more than 40 exclusive collections that got reached the final stage. It is noteworthy that along with celebrated Uzbek fashion designers the young and promising designers - students of the Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry, professional colleges, academic lyceums and schools presented their collections.

The festival is the fine opportunity for young designers to grasp practical skills. Working over the certain fashion line, it is necessary for them to take into account the whole range of moments the success of a collection depends on,” comments Holida Komilova, the chairperson of the Association of Modelers of Uzbekistan Osiyo Ramzi. “For instance, working out the gowns of national style, it is necessary to study profoundly the features of a traditional suit. It concerns all models, including sports line and clothes for future mothers.”

The collections made in national and sports style, clothes for future mothers, gowns in avant-garde style were the basic thematic units have reached the competitive fashion show of looks.

“One could barely imagine from what the creative person can be inspired. Some fashion designers got their inspiration from such children's sports as artistic gymnastics, kurash (Uzbek national wrestling) and wushu.

“I choose sports theme as the basis of my collection because this year is declared as the Year of Comprehensively Advanced Generation. And sports take one of the leading positions in this process. My collection is developed for female gymnasts, and all looks are presented by young talented girls from the children's sports complex Forum Junior Sport,” tells fashion designer Gulshoda Rashidova. “Gymnastic outwear is the wide scope for imagination, here we can use rather wide range of colors, as well as fabrics. For this reason I called my collection Fireworks. It is outburst of colors, fireworks of childhood!”

Designers have done rather complicated and laborious work in order to present a genuine holiday to children. Students of fashion schools Art bureau Kolibri, Paradise, Baby Style and the Center of Children's Creativity Eski Shahar had the honor to demonstrate “fruits” of these works, having performed as models.

“I present the collection Colors of Summer, it is my first practice as a model. I do like everything here, beautiful decorations, and lots of people. I am very glad to be here today, says Yulia Zubkova, 12. “The collection I represent consists of all-purpose gowns that can be put on every occasion.”

“This festival gives the chance to discover talents, for designers to demonstrate their creativity, for people to see interesting beautiful products and to take pleasure,” emphasizes Zebo Abdug’aniyeva, 16, the author of the collection Fetching Mix.

It is rather difficult to present, that is to demonstrate clothes beautifully, than it is appeared at first sight. Not every child can walk on a runway with confidence and demonstrate the cloth and him/herself, yet Bolajonlar-shirintoylar is a good opportunity to grasp these skills: to develop correct bearing, beautiful step, good taste. That is the reason of huge success of this project

It would be noted that the Festival of Children's Fashion contains not only fashion shows. It is also included the scientific-practical conference on the theme Perfection of Process of Designing Clothes, the exhibition of national toys, contest of sketches.

Bolajonlar-shirintoylar is the holiday of childhood where the sincerity of children touches the hearts of grown-ups, makes returning involuntarily to the fairy world full of miracles and magic, and never to forget that only children are capable to present this inimitable happiness!