Folk, traditional culture and modernism seems should not go together. However, the beauty of life allows us to be alchemists and to combine various particles of our culture. This is one of the main features of the 21st century. We are not only able to go beyond the traditional lifestyle, but to come back and visit our roots, pick the best parts of the old world and go further to the future combining different elements of human culture.
Beautiful examples of inter-dimensional manifestation, mix of old and contemporary worlds, are works of a post-modern Iranian fashion designer Naghmeh Kiumarsi. She is one of the leading designers in the Iranian women's fashion industry. By combining traditional Iranian textiles, Persian poetry and modern fashion she creates alchemical gold in the fashion world.
Her fashion as well as clothes designed by POOSH design and Farnaz Abdoli goes hand in hand in liberating Iranian women from the pressure of the old world. However, for women living in Europe and the Western world, who are tired of a superficial pop fashion, Kumersi's kind of fashion brings back something real, something natural.
Energetic consistency of a traditional folk culture developed quite naturally during the period of thousands of years. It avoided influences of commercial market trends which were much weaker than it is now. That is why folk culture is so magnetic. Deep, almost mysterious ethno-culture combined with dynamic, independent force of modern human can create miracles.
Modern Iranian folk fashion is one of such miracles. I believe such style like Kiumersi's or POOSH design would perfectly fit women living in the New York city or other Western metropolises. The modern Iranian folk fashion tends to liberate Iranian women from traditional dogmas while for Western women it is like a fresh air in the commercial and soulless environment.
Moreover, beauty & human culture, including fashion, shouldn't have boundaries which are made up by politicians.
Post Scriptum. Another example of modern alchemists work is a song Leyila (Liepa) where ethno cultures of Africa and Europe come together. It is made by musician from Mali Baba Sissoko and Lithuanian world music genre group MaLituanie. One Love, One World.
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