OREANDA-NEWS. From October 12 to 17 this year one of the long-awaited events of the fashion life of Uzbekistan – Design and Fashion Week Style.uz will be held in Tashkent, reported the press-centre of Uzbektourism.

Three years in a row the Forum of Culture and Arts Fund jointly with the Fashion House and Designers Association Osiyo ramzi (‘Symbol of East’) organize this grandiose event that turns Tashkent into a capital of world fashion.

According to the organizers, the program of Week will be rich and diverse. In this context, the interest in the participation at the Week is on the rise not only in Uzbekistan but also abroad. The guests from Austria, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, France, Russia, India, China, Japan and other countries are expected to take part at the Week. In its turn, the opportunity of fashion dialogue between East and West will promote the rise of significance of Fashion Week Style.uz.

Such famous figures of world fashion as Valentin Yudashkin,Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Masha Tsigal, Tatyana Mikhalkova, Elena Lenskya, Japanese designers Ristuko Shirahama and Toshikazu Iwaya, as well as prominent designer from France Pascal Morabito took part at the last two events. But this time the organizers are withholding the names of international participants of the forthcoming Week.

The Fashion Week promotes the new names, opens up broad prospects for young designers. The event of such scale will allow for exchange of views internationally in the sphere of fashion and design. In its turn, this will allow the Uzbek designers to go out to a world level.

As a part of forthcoming Week the organizers plan to hold defile of the Style House and Foreign Fashion House designers, big exhibition, nation-wide festival of national clothes, competition Underground of young designers, seminars and master-classes of foreign experts on various directions, presentations of the best restaurants in Tashkent, soirees with participation of foreign DJs and many other events.

This year the Fashion Week will expand its geography. Samarkand is expected to turn into a venue to sum up the outcomes of the Fashion Week.

No doubt that the Fashion Week will present a lot of surprises and turn into an unforgettable event in the cultural life of Uzbekistan.