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On 5 June, Anhor Park drew the capital’s best-known faces. Designers, art historians, bloggers and businesspeople gathered for the opening of Maison de Chapan, Uzbekistan’s first private chapan museum — and, as it happens, the first chapan house-museum in the world.
Nodira Abdurakhmanova is a lifestyle blogger and designer. Over several years of her ethno-style Instagram, she brought the national kaftan so deeply into everyday life that she became an unofficial ambassador of the chapan around the world.
Then came the show. Music played, the carved doors opened, and as if from the mist of the past, young people stepped out dressed in pieces of the national wardrobe.
At the ceremony the founders cut the red ribbon and laid a time capsule. Nodira admitted that the idea of the museum came to her from above, and that seeing it so clearly let her realise the project in just four months.
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Originally published in Afisha Tashkent, 11 June 2024. Translated by nadi.uz.