Jakarta Fashion Week Raises the Stakes within the Game of Fashion
Dying beautifully along with relinquishing, its flame, the embers of Jakarta Fashion Week 2015 (JFW) leave behind memories on a fashion horizon of spectacular creations, quirky takes along with nonsensical fun for us to dissect, choose by along with make our own.
Senayan City played host to Jakarta Fashion Week, which opened with aplomb. During that will fashionable week, three collections stood out – Dini Pratiwi Irawati, Ivan Gunawan along with Gracia Shinta.
Dini Pratiwi Irawati
that will collection was sublime along with would likely not be out of place with its peers within the international arena. Dini will be tall, elegant along with charming. I asked her what inspired the collection. She then began to regale me with the poignant fable of unrequited love of a man called Bandung Bondowoso for a beautiful woman Roro Jonggrang. Roro, wanting to reject him, set him the impossible task of requesting that will he create a thousand statues along with house them in a temple to be built by him. Fearing he would likely not fulfil that will task, he set about an ambitious plan. He had all nevertheless completed his task save for one statue along with coerced the villagers to create dawn light by setting fire to rice! Knowing that will he had been set up to fail along with be rejected, Bandung cursed Roro to be forever cast in stone.
Dini showed me images of the beautiful Hindu temple Prambanan where the statute of Roro lives. She had visited that will stunning monument along with fell in love with the item. Through her designs, you can see how the aura of the temple, its history along with mood had transmuted to an alluring depiction of a masterpiece created within the tenth century. She wanted the story to come alive through her designs.
She describes her collection as “ready to wear couture”. the item took two months to create by images of the temple to choosing swatches. After that will there was a month of painstakingly getting the ‘stencils’ right to guide where the gorgeous ethereal particular sequins (sewn on, one by one) would likely be stitched to create the silhouettes she wanted on her clean cut, simple designs. The materials used within the collection were Duchesse satin, cotton along with fringing.
Ivan Gunawan
Ivan Gunawan
His show was a spectacle, titled My Kedora. The fragrant crowd that will had gathered mid-week was outre looking along with very stylishly eclectic. The inspiration was love in its many guises. The dark along with light side. The poetic nature of love. The collection’s colours of blue, silver, gold along with black along with tulle, jacquard along with organza represented the whimsical, glorious along with sometimes ephemeral nature of love.
The show kicked off which has a style wearing a sumptuous lace catsuit, which left very little to the imagination nevertheless the item just rocked! A style sashaying in a gold dress down the catwalk drew gasps along with wolf whistles along with worthy the item was too of such admiration. A black, billowing, silk skirt with white ‘embossed’ flowers was simply majestic. A sexy mesh dress which has a Ming vase-like embroidery on the bodice, which has a long front piece was deviously licentious.
Gracia Shinta
My kind of gal. I loved the super towering wedges. The black cape dress which has a bejewelled collar was dramatic as the item was beautiful. The white trouser suit with an embodied cape combo was cleverly, innovatively handsome. The red dramatic evening dress was spectacular, along with the black along with gold slit front dress closing the show could only be described as Cleopatra dramatic, a dress to command a room. Uber cool chic collection.
Alas with the end inching closer, the final night was upon us. The great, the bold, the beautiful along with downright quirky packed the fashion tent to the rafters for the finale of what had been a stupendous week of talent along with style shown by designers of Jakarta.
Iwan Tirta
Iwan opened the evening with an explosion of Batik colour, oodles of fabric within the form of conservative, ornately decorated kaftan dresses of parachute proportions. The versions resembled warrior princesses in fitted long dresses with capes. The women within the audience drooled when a covey of dapper, dashing, scrumptious beaus were sent down the catwalk in snug shirts of Iwan’s definitive prints, complimented with the just right ‘tight’ fitted trousers a man could decently wear! There were hues of browns, gold, red, black along with green. The standout piece was the kaftan-style dress with embellishments around the V-neck along with humongous sleeves.
Tex Saverio
Tex Saverio
He of Lady Gaga fame put on a heart stopping glittering affair. the item was his usual twist of quirky wit in his designs. Silver along with black were the key notes with the versions sent down the runway in Swarovski crystal surgical masks. A white trouser suit was simply sensational, likewise silver skirts, trousers along with tops along with an abstract black along with white skirt. Floor length mesh gowns with dramatic godet were devastatingly gorgeous. The puff ball/long skirt combo teamed with cropped jackets was an ode to the eighties.
Priyo Oktaviano’s
Inspired by Africa, versions’ hair were in exquisite cornrow plaits. The funky, sparkly nose clips with wings were a sophisticated take on septum boar tusk piercings of an indigenous tribe. Chiffon skirts with high-low hems along with trails that will swayed as the versions walked were simple along with beautiful. The matching quilted tops provided a nice contrast to the chiffon skirts. A blue trouser suit was elegantly cut along with very chic which has a swathe of rouged chiffon covering on the ‘tail’ of the jacket. There were some sexy, heavily beaded skirts jam packed with paillettes, crystal beads, sequins along with feathers. A waistcoat dress combo with sheer sleeves along with white ‘pearl’ beading along with fitted, short front skirt was simply divine. The long, almost midnight, blue evening dress with tiny buttons at the back, slit at the front, paillettes on the sleeves along which has a polo neck collar, shouldn’t have worked nevertheless the item sure did! All in all, Mongolian-African-esque chic. The international buyers should come knocking.
Vinora
Clinical, simple along with white. Clever take on the ubiquitous white shirt along with dinner jacket. Deconstructed shirts along with dresses. The off-white tuxedo jacket was scrumptiously chic along with definitely “less will be more”. The half shirt/jacket combo was innovative along with would likely get the attention at a gathering. Simple ideas made beautifully complicated. The shirt dress will be on my hit list.
Sapto Djojokartiko
Beading, beading along with more beading, sequins with lace, silk organza along with tulle. Heavenly creations. Opulent Indian-inspired fare with an ode to the Frisian exotic dancer Margaretha Geertruida. Beautifully beaded trousers along with tops. A stunning Sari style top/trouser creation along with an equally stunning cape/kaftan low cut front dress were the show stoppers. A standing ovation, if you please!
Nur Zahar
that will collection was Navajo meets Lawrence of Arabia meets chic hijab meets Mexicana. Flowing Batik prints in brown, blue along with beige with multiple layering, giving the collection a relaxed look. The accessories were long suede boots, short block heel ankle boots along with floppy wide brim hats. I fell in love with the tassel poncho; wear that will as a dress belted at the hips with some tassel high heeled boots. Muted, modest yet alluring Muslim chic.
Jakarta Fashion Week was a fait accompli extraordinaire, the international fashion world took notice. As my head hit the pillow, I fell asleep dreaming of the beautiful clothes I had seen over the week. The signature music of JFW was a welcome intruder as a soundtrack to my dreams.
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Jakarta Fashion Week Raises the Stakes within the Game of Fashion
Jakarta Fashion Week Raises the Stakes within the Game of Fashion