A12 – SHIRTS FROM PĂDURENI

Everything you need to understand right away. We explore a little to discover the spirit of the place and meet the women who invented these masterpieces. We rummaged so deep in museum deposits, in villages and fairs, that we managed to find things that are not even in books.

I’ll explain it to you together with Sebastian and Gabriela, as I also learned, in stages. So:

These shirts are unforgettable. Artists wear them, they collect thousands of “likes” on Instagram, and impress on the fashion catwalk in Japan. The embroidery on the sleeves leaves you speechless. They seem impossible, like impenetrable fortresses, you don’t know where to start this maze. Once you understand that these shirts hide, under the embroidery, brilliant pattern cutting, you totally fall in love with them.

Special guests

Arch. Ioana Corduneanu, an experienced designer, launched Semne Cusute in 2012 to present traditional shirts from a current perspective.

Drd. Sebastian Paic, museographer at the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, specializes in the traditional dress of Transylvania.

Gabriela creates, passionate about sustainability and how clothing can express our identity, has been with Semne Cusute since the beginning.