Croatian Design Part of Google’s Big ‘We Wear Culture’ Project
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Croatian design part of Google’s ‘We Wear Culture’
More than 150 pieces of fashion and culture from Croatia are part of Google’s latest ‘We Wear Culture’ Internet exhibition.
“We Wear Culture”, which is a collaboration between Google and over 180 museums, fashion institutions, schools, and institutes, is the most widely accessible and comprehensive fashion collection in the world, all available on the net.
Borosana by Borovo in Vukovar, Croatia
The project is part of Google’s Arts & Culture platform, which is digitizing the world’s cultural treasures, and features 30,000 fashion pieces from all over the world.
Croatian dress
It is not only an exhibition but also an interactive education of the history of fashion over the last few centuries.
(Photo: Museum Euopäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ute Franz-Scarciglia)
It features pieces and descriptions from everything from modern Japanese streetwear to the clothes worn by Elizabeth I of England.
Croatian man’s jacket (surina) – (Photo credit: The Trustees of The British Museum)
Parsol (Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb)
19th Century bracelet from Croatia ( Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb)
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