Designer Stefano Ricci released a collection with state symbols of Uzbekistan and received an accusation of insulting the whole people. The appropriate statement appeared on the website of the Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan.
Fashion designer in Europe Brand Stefano Ricci has released a new capsule collection dedicated to the country. The line includes clothes and shoes with the image of the state coat of arms. The ministry recognized the disrespectful designer’s decision to apply the symbol of independence of Uzbekistan on the collection items.
“Symbols of state independence of Uzbekistan are sacred, and their insult in any form is prosecuted by law. In accordance with Article 5-1 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan” On the State Herbe “, the images of the coat of arms cannot be used for commercial purposes and are not subject to sale,” – noted in the Ministry of Justice.
Brand representatives have not yet commented on what happened.
In June, the Zara mass market clothes also saw an insult of the whole people. We are talking about a brand dress with a pattern characteristic of the Mischtec community in San Juan-Colorado in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Minister of Culture of the country Alehandra Frausty stated that the brand design includes traditional symbols, “personifying the environment, the history and worldview of the whole community.”