Modern Dress
Most Kurdish women and men have a large collection of Kurdish dresses and are always on the lookout for new designs and fabric. They usually buy the fabrics of their choice and then have it tailors as such there are tailors who specialize in making Kurdish clothes. Recently these respected tailors have turned into designers that have created different designs for the conventional structure of the dress. In villages most of the time women tailer for their entire family after everyone making their own fabric choice.
There are known designers like Dilkash ‘Della’ Murad who integrate modern techniques with traditional and modern Kurdish styles. There are so many different styles of the Kurdish dress/clothes today that in recent years there have been many fashion shows, showcased for a Kurdish and International audience. For example shows have been held, in Vancouver, Canada, in Melbourne Australia at the Kurdish Film Festival by the Kurdish Women's Society and in Hackney Museum as part of their Kurdish Cultural Heritage Project.
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