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Intro to Jakarta Fashion Week's International Guest Designers

This year’s Jakarta Fashion Week is bound to be bigger than ever, with a new venue at Senayan City expecting to attract higher numbers of visitors into the outdoor tents that have already been erected. The purpose and main theme of this year’s fashion week is Bringing Indonesia to the World, and one of the ways this is going to be achieved is through the Buyers’ Room, a regular fixture at fashion weeks all over the world. More than forty Indonesian labels have been selected by the JFW panel to take part in this year’s Buyer’s Room, where designers and label representatives will interact with buyers from Indonesia and the rest of the world. Through the networking experience gleaned by Major Minor in the Buyers’ Room last year, the label has since been supplying clothes to upscale British department store Harvey Nichols.

But just as much as this is an opportunity for Indonesian designers to really make an impression on foreign buyers, it’s also a great opportunity for us to experience fashion shows by designers from abroad. Through partnerships with different embassies, cultural missions, and trade shows, six labels from four countries will share the runway with homegrown designers at JFW. So which countries will be participating, and what are the labels will we see?

JAPAN: MOTONARI ONO

The JFW committee has been working with the Japan Fashion Week Organization in a cross-country exchange that will benefit both cities. In March of next year, two Indonesian designers will take part in Japan Fashion Week, but not before two Japanese designers appear here in Jakarta. Fresh off the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo beat, the man behind the eponymous label, Motonari Ono, will share his S/S ’14 line. He launched his line in 2006 after graduating from the Royal College of Fine Art in Antwerp, but not before gaining a few years of experience under the tutelage of English designer, Bora Aksu. Ono is a true craftsman who relishes the structured look, as you can see by his F/W ’13 collection: it was a really upbeat texture of prints, textures, and colors that maintained an upbeat feel while sticking to traditionally sombre fall colors.

Motonari Ono F/W ’13 (Image source)

JAPAN: SOMARTA

Tamae Hirokawa of Somarata is another Japanese designer we also have the pleasure of hosting at JFW. Her use of color and materials is something is a breath of fresh air, as she really has the knack for shaking things up every season by mixing loose, flowy fabrics with heavier materials for a balance that is never boring. A true artist at heart, her artwork has been commissioned for installations in Japan and Italy.

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