Celebrating the Universal Day of The Romanian Blouse in Dubai

Today, 24th of June, is the Universal Day of the IE (known as the Romanian blouse or la blouse roumaine), a traditional Romanian blouse skillfully decorated with fine art hand embroidery. Initiated by the Facebook community "La Blouse Roumaine" just few months ago, this day is celebrated around the world by Romanians and their friends. It is from my knowledge the first time in history (ok, exaggerating) when Romanians around the world enthusiastically unite for a common cause, to unveil the beauty, the sense and the stories behind one of the most beautiful artifacts that Romania gave the world. 

I have few Romanian blouses, but my newest one was brought all the way to Dubai from Romania by TAROM, the Romanian Airline. 

Smaranda Braescu, the first Romanian pilot, also called
The Queen of the Air, wearing the Romanian Blouse

The beauty and elegance of the Romanian Blouse in Dubai

The patterns on this blouse symbolize continuity

Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, has a view of the Romanian Blouse :)

The Romanian Blouse - telling its own story

TAROM's uniform is rather beautiful, but what if we changed it to
something inspired from the Romanian Blouse?

The beautiful stewardesses from TAROM wearing the Romanian blouse.

                                     

"La blouse roumaine" - how I see it (and this is just the beginning)

Talking about handcrafts... I am over the moon with these two new items in my wardrobe, my own interpretation of "ie" - a type of typical Romanian blouse (also found in other countries in Eastern Europe and North Europe in different variations), most commonly known as "la blouse roumaine". This name became famous after the French painter Henry Matisse fell in love with the Romanian blouse and started to create a collection of paintings called "La blouse roumaine" (one of them you can see in the background of this blog).

After few other trials, I am lucky to have met an amazing woman who understand exactly how I want my "blouse roumaine" to look like and created these stunning pieces that are entirely hand embroidered. I am seriously blown away by the quality of her (and her team's) work!

This is not about fashion, it is about creating life long lasting pieces that you can pass on, clothes that have a soul and a story of their own. It takes about 3 weeks to make one piece, so imagine the energy, the emotions, the skills, the passion, the the effort that it takes...