Traditions and folklore in female ethnic costumes

Price: Euro 10,00
(about USD 15,00)

Edited by F. Meo, Traditions and folklore in female ethnic costumes, Fondazione Giacomini-Meo-Fiorot, 1998

The exhibition presents an ample section of ethnic costumes and jewellery preserved at the Mazzucchelli Museums. These are costumes and objects which come from Egypt, Somalia, Morocco, South Africa and India, made from heterogeneous materials, derived from the vegetable and animal world: shells, horn and animal teeth, feathers, hard stones, pebbles, resins, glass, vegetable fibres and perfumed woods. Loaded with social, symbolic and religious value these objects bring back to life traditions which are deeply rooted in the distant past.

“While classical fashion, with its seasonal shows, has an almost neurotic mania for novelty and change, ethnic fashion has peaceful, perpetual rhythms taking pride in the times, designs, forms and colours of their past. On this note, just think how in India or Morocco, Mexico or Peru they often propose patterns of their most ancient traditions”. Franca Meo

30 x 21 cm., 29 pp. colour illustrations