site.btaFashion Show by Bulgarian Designer Ivan Donev Held in Ankara
A fashion show by world-famous Bulgarian designer Ivan Donev was held in Ankara. Haute Couture Gala Bulgaria – Turkiye was organized at the initiative of the Bulgarian Embassy in Turkiye and Ambassador Angel Cholakov.
At the start of the event, Cholakov welcomed the guests to "the celebration of fashion, beauty, music and, most of all, Bulgarian-Turkish friendship." He described Donev as one Bulgaria's biggest designers and a true ambassador of Bulgarian culture and talent. In Cholakov's words, Donev is a bright name on the Bulgarian and world catwalk as well as a big Bulgarian public figure.
The Ambassador said that a unique Bulgarian dress is presented for the first time in Ankara; it will be shown in Tokyo in five days. It has been created within Donev's initiative From the Golden Hands of Our Grandmothers and Mothers.
The dress is made of white crochets donated by a large number of Bulgarian women.
The collection presented at the fashion show was described as a "story about experiences, a gallery of paintings created from the emotions, philosophy and visions of designer Ivan Donev" and as being focused on the colours white, black, and gold, which describe best the world of Donev, who was born in Bulgaria but has spent half of his life in Italy. The fashion show tells about Donev's free spirit and his wish to achieve and build dialogue, peace, unity, tolerance, and equality, it was also noted ahead of the fashion show.
The designer dedicates several models to the colours of the uniforms of doctors, police officers, and volunteers who save human lives. One of the dresses is dedicated to the Bulgarian firefighters who arrived in the first hours after last year's devastating earthquakes in Turkiye, as well as to the Turkish firefighters who helped Bulgaria put out the wildfires this summer. Another dress is dedicated to Antarctica, demonstrating the cooperation between Bulgaria and Turkiye in the field of polar research.
Presented were dresses made of recycled materials and dedicated to the clean waters of oceans and seas, clean air, green and colourful nature.
Among the many guests of the event were the Director of the State Institute for Culture with the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Snezhana Yoveva, former Turkish ambassador to Bulgaria Hassan Ulusoy, the head of the Balkan Immigrants Economic Research and Social Assistance Foundation (BISAV), Dr Yuksel Ozkale, many foreign diplomats, journalists from Turkish media, including Anadolu Agency and TPT, Bulgarian nationals in Ankara.
A Turkish jazz band played during the fashion show. The Bulgarian song "Hubava Si Moya Goro" was also performed.
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