Google launched an online fashion encyclopedia

On the website We Wear Culture contains many exhibits depicting the history of fashion

8 June, the American Internet giant Google announced the launch of a new web site, We Wear Culture.

The project, which is a massive online encyclopedia fashion, earned after a year of preparatory work: to create a website has been digitised archives of more than 180 different museums in 40 countries around the world – from the Victoria and albert Museum to the costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum.

The main objective of the website We Wear Culture to make the history and culture of fashion affordable for all, says Fashion Network. An online encyclopedia created by Google that covers the development of fashion for three thousand years.

Presentation of the project We Wear Culture was held in the framework of a press conference in the Paris Museum of decorative arts. Museum Director Olivier Gabet described the site as “an innovative, ambitious project that will create a big buzz”. We Wear thanks to the Culture of any people on the planet will be able to explore the fashion world from the inside.

The website We Wear Culture is part of Google’s Art & Culture. The project page is presented in the format of mini-exhibitions, which you can see in detail all the exhibits, learn about designers and fashion trends, read large analytical materials and comments from the experts.

In particular, on the platform you can see the little black dress Coco Chanel, the iconic women’s suit Christian Dior Dior Le Bar, dress Dragon the XVIII century belonging to the Emperor of the Qing dynasty and more.

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