Nine Moldovan designers display collections of clothes in shop from Strasbourg

Chisinau, 10 May /MOLDPRES/ - Nine Moldovan designers, starting from 4 May, exhibited their collections of clothes in a shop from Strasbourg, France, within a fashion event titled, Strasbourg Fashion Week.  

Moldova is an honorary guest of the 2018 issue and the participation of native entrepreneurs is backed financially and logistically by the government, including with the involvement of Moldova’s Permanent Representation at the Council of Europe.

The collection of Moldovan brands, along with international ones, will be displayed and sold at the Printemps shop during two months, May-June. Also, on 28 May – 3 June, Moldovan producers will participate in a fashion defile within Strasbourg Fashion Week.

To facilitate local producers’ access to new sales markets, meetings will be organized with important networks in the field, among which the network Printemps and Galerie Lafayette, as well as distributors of smaller networks. At the same time, a register will be elaborated with information about competent entrepreneurs, due to be printed in 1,000 copies and spread in commercial and hotel networks of France.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the executive director of the Association of Employers from Light Industry, Tatiana Eremciuc, said that some brands had also participated in this event in the previous years. She noted that it was the first time when Moldova’s delegation was such numerous.   

“The invitation to participate came on behalf of Moldova’s Permanent Representation at the Council of Europe. The most representative designers were selected at the event, who displayed autumn-winter and spring-summer collections at the event. Three out of those nine native producers presented clothes for children,” Eremciuc said.    

She specified that Moldovan designers systematically participated in fashion events. “In particular, it is about fashion exhibitions and weeks. Thus, collections of native producers were presented in more countries of the European Union (Romania, France, the United Kingdom), Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, the USA and China. As for footwear, native designers took part in events organized in the Czech Republic,” Tatiana Eremciuc specified.      

The promotion of Moldovan designers on the French market is backed by the cabinet, which allocated on the purpose 300,000 lei from the exports promotion fund, through the Association of Employers from the Light Industry. The Moldova Competitiveness Project, financed by the United States Agency for International Development and government of Sweden, and the World Bank’s Competitiveness Enhancement Project provided support as well.

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor M. Jantovan)