The traditional blouse, known in Romanian as an ie, has been added to Unesco’s list of intangible cultural heritage.The traditional blouse, known in Romanian as an ie, has been added to Unesco’s list of intangible cultural heritage.
Earlier this week La Blouse Roumaine, an online collective dedicated to promoting the intricately embroidered Romanian blouse known as the ie,On social media, it requested that Louis Vuitton remove the pieces until it could obtain agreement to use the cultural design and credit it appropriately. The country’s minister of culture weighed in soon after. “We will request that Louis Vuitton recognise the heritage and cultural value of the traditional blouse model with ribbons,” Raluca Turcan wrote on Facebook late on Monday, describing it as an opportunity to foster international recognition of the “inestimable value” of Romanian tradition.The post appears to have been deleted later. On Wednesday, the ministry of culture did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Louis Vuitton.