The Cleveland Museum of Art hosted its annual International Cleveland Community Day in the Ames Family Atrium on Sunday October 4, 2015.
The International Community Council -Worldwide Intercultural Network (ICC-WIN) put on an International Fashion Show at the event.
Flora Mark from Cleveland's Chinese community explained her clothing to Ken Kovach of ICC-WIN. She wore a Cheongsam which means long clothes in the Cantonese dialect. It is a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress.
Flora Mark
Aklilu Demessie from Cleveland's Ethiopian community explained the Ethiopian clothing.
Aklilu Demessie and Ethiopian Group
Ken Kovach from Cleveland's Hungarian community explained the Hungarian fashion he was wearing. The men's embroidered shirt is worn for village occasions as are the Fedora and Dancing boots.
Ken Kovach
Members of the Ajyal Lebanese Dance Group explained the historic Lebanese clothing they were wearing at the Cleveland Museum of Art's International Cleveland Community Day in the Atrium of the museum. The costumes were worn by Lebanese royalty in the 1600's and 1700's. The pointy hat is called a tarboush.
Ajyal Lebanese Dancers in costume
Nada Martinovic from Cleveland's Serbian community wore a colorful gypsy dress that would be worn by the Roma (Gypsy) people.
Nada Martinovic
Harry Weller dressed as a composite of American fashions. He wore a pin-striped suit to show business and entrepreneurship and a cowboy hat and he carried a pitchfork like in American Gothic. When he removed his cowboy hat he had a Donald Trump wig on.
Harry Weller
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Gia Hoa Ryan from Cleveland's Vietnamese community explained the Vietnamese clothing she and her group were wearing.
Paramjit Singh from Cleveland's Indian community explained the Indian clothing he was wearing. Paramjit is a Sikh and explained about the turban too.
Paramjit Singh
Ken Kovach of ICC-WIN called all the fashion models back at the Cleveland Museum of Art's International Cleveland Community Day in the Atrium of the museum. A glitch caused a shake in the video near the end.
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