Japanese Gothic Style Inspiration and Apokayan

Japanese Gothic Style Inspiration and Apokayan

KOMPAS.com - famous Indonesian designer, Didi Budiardjo, issued its latest collection. This time he was inspired by the uniqueness of Japanese gothic style and interior Dayak tribe in Kalimantan.

Japanese gothic style, which was given the theme of Gothic Lolita, Harajuku style that displays a dark-colored, combined with keeksotikan Indonesian batik, such as batik Sogan, machetes, fried, truntum, and Solo-Jogja batik other.

"I combine batik mini intersect with the cape or jacket, accented with fur (feathers) that the trend among young Japanese," Didi said after the fashion show titled "Colours of Indonesia" in building the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Jakarta, Wednesday (24 / 2 / 2010).

Meanwhile, women's fashion in the interior of Borneo Dayak tribes also became his inspiration. This style is named Apokayan, which means River Kayan in Kalimantan. "I want to feel the fashion connoisseur of travel on the Kayan River," said the bespectacled designer.

Design Apokayan crafts displays beaded geometrial pinned to the head cover (cap typical Dayak women) to clothes and shoes. Meanwhile, the cloth used is woven cloth with a pattern that has been modified, for example, patterned tropical animals, dragons, and others.

Besides launching a collection of mature, Didi also features batik designs for children. One style of batik, which is used for the collection of this child style reminiscent of a bird in a sling is often used by mothers when holding her child.

Actually there is one more design collections, but not displayed. Given the theme of Pret a Porter Paris, this collection combines French style and keeksotikan Bugis. The design uses an average of once trendy white color at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Pret a Porter Paris and its Gothic Lolita and Apokayan previously displayed at a fashion show with the same theme by the Foundation in Sulam Indonesian Indonesian Embassy in Japan, beginning in February 2010.