The African continent, which is rich in fertility, privacy, cultures and civilizations, was the source of inspiration for 32 female - students, with a BA in Clothing Design Department at Faculty of Applied Arts (FAA), Helwan University, Class of 2020.
As the clothing and fashion industry is a dazzling world and rich in details, the designs came out as a mirror that reflects the richness of the continent’s civilizations, and the depth of thinking of a new generation of designers and innovators in the world of fashion, from Egyptians qualified for internationalism.
The Egyptian talents succeeded in discovering the continent's forgotten treasures.
And they proved that the clothing industry is a source of national income that must get more attention , supporting, encouraging exports, facilitating offered to for small and large manufacturers.
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has taken many decisions to boost the textile industry and revive the major Mahalla factories, after they had been neglected for many years.
This means that we are waiting for bright hope for Egyptian textiles of international quality.
Due to f the importance of this industry, its stages cover three majors in the Textile Department of Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, which received the title of "mother", because it is the most ancient in other nascent faculties.
These other specializations include: textile, printing, and clothing design.
Female –students in the last major specifically took this year notice of the glamour of the African continent because persity and exclusivity of its costumes, which became the inspiration for projects that graduate its students.
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Dr. Doha El-Demerdash[/caption]
The author of the idea was Dr. Doha Mustafa El-Demerdash, a professor of the project subject for the clothing design department, who was inspired by the global trend, a topic that turns into a source of inspiration for the 2020 batch, because she believes that Africa is in the heart and conscience.
As Egyptians, we are proud to be part of the oldest and most ancient continents of the world, and the persity of its cultures its costumes make her a rich source full of treasures.
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Fashion sketch and design created by Amira Kamal[/caption]
The students were immediately excited about the idea, and each of them began a journey of research, exploration and study, delving into the African countries and their tribes, their arts and heritage, their cultures and the most important characteristics.
A continuous hard work that started from the first semester and continued until the end of the year, so that the graduation project would be designing a dress for an evening dress and another for a casual.
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Fashion sketch and design created byHadeer Nashaat[/caption]
The task was not easy, after the research stage comes the role of inspiration for the idea, then drawing sketches that may reach (100) sketches, followed by this stage.
Painting, then creating patterns, cutting the model and embroidering the units manually, and at the end the design is detailed to appear in its final form in the graduation projects that dazzled us, after it turned into stunning artistic paintings.
*A trip to the tribes of the continent
Just a look at the designs gives us a free trip to the countries of the continent, and it brings us to their various tribes, which were a source of fertile inspiration for the students.
From Cameroon, located in the west of the continent, the student Marwa Nagy was inspired by her project, and she called her brand name (Togo), which is the name of the traditional dress of the people of Cameroon, and despite that came out very contemporary designs.
As for Burkina Faso, which is rich in its culture and various arts, it was a source of inspiration for the student Omnia Khalid, who wore the sacred crocodile on a white dress, and the crocodile for the citizens of Burkina Faso is a source of values, light and happiness.
The Zulu tribes ( in South Africa) were the source of inspiration for the student Nesma Hamdy, who saw that the clothes of these tribes are distinguished by the abundance of details and decorations, and chose for the brand the name (Hlukile), which is a word that means distinction and difference in the language of these tribes.
The student Anfal Ramadan belongs to the Nuba, in south Eypt, so she chose the tribe and region (Sumpuro) in Kenya, and in turn, she was inspired by a roar, her design originated from the (Sambura) tribe in northern Kenya.
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Fashion sketch and design created byAnfal Ramadan[/caption]
As for the Massai tribe, which extends between Kenya and northern Tanzania, it was a source of inspiration for the student Manar Mustafa Khader, as the tribe is distinguished by the strength of its women and the persity of their roles in society.
* Batch girls face COVID-19 Isolation
The 2020 batch of ready-to-wear clothes included 32 girls.
Faculty of Applies Arts houses fourteen departments, include boys and girl.
The Fashion Design Department is headed by Dr. Abdel-Rahim Ramadan, but this exceptional batch (Corona batch) consisted only of female students who had love and perseverance, and a passion for work and intonation in all the walks of the field of fashion design, and each of them challenged circumstances Corona and isolation were encouraged and followed by Dr. Doha.
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Fashion sketch and design created byMarwa Nagy[/caption]
She followed the e-learning method with them, to follow the different steps of the project, and to give alternatives to the students in order to overcome the conditions of the isolation.
She also allowed the students to use newspaper paper to draw and cut the pattern in the event that the paper for this could not be available.
There is a stage where the pattern is cut on the (damour- a cotton fabric ) cloth before cutting the expensive original cloth, which is a very important stage, but the students could not go to the cloth market under the ban, so she advised them to use the old sheets at home.
Contributed by Ahmed Moamar
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