Qlamenco begins the procedures to consider flamenco fashion and its handicrafts a world heritage site

Now, from Qlamenco, a flamenco fashion and craft association made up of business designers from the sector, they want to give a little hope in this context of uncertainty by dignifying the place that flamenco fashion deserves in the world, explaining to us the reasons why flamenco fashion and its crafts deserve to be a World Heritage Site:

- The flamenco dress and its accessories are not only the image of Andalusia but the image of Spain to the world.

- They have become an iconic style of international fashion.

- It has a long historical trajectory whose beginnings date back to the 19th century with the evolution of the popular festive dress of gypsy women who sold handicraft products. Thus, the birth of the flamenco dress occurs in the fusion between popular lines and bourgeois clothing, configuring a prototype of clothing that was expanded to all popular festivals in the Andalusian community.

- From the beginning, the flamenco dress has set a trend, being linked to urban fashion and haute couture. A stylistic evolution that has influenced its internationalization process.

- The flamenco dress and its accessories involve Andalusian artisan professions such as embroidery, fringed ...

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