From Paris to Bucharest | Editorial

The concept of the Future Folk. Costume Royal project refers to the extension of the original concept of future folk to an international dimension by interpreting the traditional costume of different cultures with contemporary design. The current concept concerns an inspired selection of XVIII - century French royal costume, in a stylistic tandem with the graphic symbolism found in Romanian folk costumes. Taffetas and increased volumes will reward this history sheet of France, which remains an inexhaustible source of inspiration for contemporary design. The dynamic rhetoric of sportswear area will enrich the look of a neo-baroque style. The visual tandem offered by designer Carmen Emanuela Popa by homogenizing the two worlds, France and Romania, is a stylistic explosion using new techniques of contemporary art, the juxtaposition of symbolic elements of seemingly antithetical cultures, starting from the original line of popular costume and placed on a visual stand. Sanda Miller, Journalist and Fashion Critic, London, says: "Borrowing this amount of cultural history is no slim task for Romanian designer Carmen Emanuela Popa. But the message is important and, hopefully, far-reaching; we need a wind of change in the world of fashion that seeks itself, and which must come exactly from sources such as folklore and places other than the world of pan-Western European fashion."