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Instagram is Your New Personal Shopping Mall

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One of my favorite songs in the world includes lyrics that are especially relevant to weekends that have been botched by bad weather: We’ll stay inside ’til somebody finds/Do whatever the TV tells us/Stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days.

Part of my personal “rosy-minded fuzz” would include scouring Instagram for clothes and accessories. Thankfully, the wealth of local creative talent dabbling in the fashion and accessories market have established Instagram accounts to increase direct accessibility to their supporters. Here are some labels that I’ve been eyeing on the social media platform — and although most of them are readily available at online stores or brick-and-mortar shops, it’s always nice to get updates on new products on your social media feed.

Sight From the East (@sightfromtheeast)

Intan Anggita and Aria Angga Dwipa found a higher calling when they traveled to Nusa Tenggara Timur and fell in love with everything about it. They wanted to invest their energy into helping develop the NTT community and funded their social endeavor with a great idea: Sight From the East refurbishes denim jackets found at flea market by converting some into vests and jazzing them up with tenun patches. The tenun is sourced from communities that Intan and Aria are already in touch with, and sales proceeds of the jackets go to community-building projects in NTT. Read about their adventures on their project blog, Menuju Timur. (more…)

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