The Splendor of Indonesian Kain

The diversity of Indoesian archipelago’s kain has been prettily processed by some of the designers of The Indonesian Fashion Designer Council (Ikatan Perancang Mode Indonesia, or IPMI) in Thursday, Nobember 11, 2010. The show was held in the evening at the Fashion Tent, Pacific Place, Jakarta. Ten members of IPMI presented their fashion collections with “Precious Indonesia” as a theme.

The show was later opened by Liliana Lim’s collection, which brought up the beauty of East Nusa Tenggara’s kain tenun and soft colored raw silk in ready-to-wear silhouette onto the runway. Followed by Kanaya Tabita who’s under the brand of KATA, in which the models exhibited brave and bold motives, wrapped up in drappery and flowy dresses. Afterwards, Stephanus Hamy was also showing off his fashion collection, themed “Gendongan” that used lurik as its highlight. Albeit Hamy’s collection wasn’t as ‘stomping’ as his former collection a few days ago, he’s succesfully given a nice touch of modernity through his constructive designs.

Valentino Napitupulu presented the Toba’s batik pattern upon soft terracotta chiffons, made a sophisticated and elegant effect. Yongki Budisutisna flaunted his fashion collection after that, gave a touch of rockstar on batik. A model appeared with a guitar and immediately invited a boisterous applause from the audience. Then later on, Sutanto Danuwidjaja startled the show with models’ afro hairdo on his “Beauty of Nature” theme. The combination of batik and patchwork chiffon looked really nice. Meanwhile, Tuty Cholid showed off her fashion collection not so long after that with rang-rang tenun of Nusa Penida combined with tenun ikat cepuk motive in baju kurung and tunics that came with Sumatra Island’s typical color.

Widhi Budimulia who’s been familiar with chiffons and satines, combined to create his designs with Makassar’s tenun. It was translated in the form from jacket to patchwork upon the night gowns. Right after his fashion performance, the music rhyme transformed and went faster, made a good companion for Adesagi Kierana’s collection. Adesagi’s collection was consisted of volumized ultra-feminine dresses, paired with high heels. Vava voom!

The show was finally closed with Era Soekamto’s fashion collection who revitalized the Urban Crew label (she used to collaborate with designer Ichwan Toha before they finally chose to go vacuum). Union of Galaxies became her collection’s theme this time, in which she interpreted through a hippes-retro nuance, a bit 80s, and most importantly, ready-to-wear, shown in back-shredded tops, leather jacket, to leather leggings. (Kartini Broto Suharjo/ Femina’s Reporter Team)