biyan//sense//09/10

Biyan is an Indonesian fashion designer I've never heard of before, but i'm really lovin his 'sense' line. Its main inspiration is the pasar or the traditional market (he even name dropped the traditional Sukawati market which isn't very far from where i live) and, well, they all look like stands in a market. These are simple silhouette that reminds me of the clothes women wore in old pictures, but now with fancy modern tailoring and nice pop-ish prints that reminds you of batik in a weird way. The colors are also very fruitful, the beads and jewels reminds me of old ladies parading with their jewelries and the make up reminds me so much of Kartini and women in her era. Some of these even reminds me of miu miu, marc jacobs and marni, especially. Such a shame these pictures are bad though.

(kartini)

pictures taken from this place. + biyan's website (very pretty though not picts :()

Valentino rtw10

I watched the Valentino documentary about his work and the brand last year and I thought he was really iconic person but personally I don't really like the brand, at least most of the time. Though this line is the bomb diggity- I really really like it. It was soooo romantic and it looked really deep and pretty, opposing to the real glamorous and artificial (and boring) Valentino in the past (at least when he himself was still the head, and to the extent of my knowledge). It's very classy. It was mostly lace, white and soft colors with some of the clothes goth-like with leather, fishnet-looking fabric and dark lace, and also the oh-so famous Valentino red. Lots of lace. The fur was a bit weird and sometimes the frills were to much. really liked what Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri did

i really liked the butterfly though, its really funny to me and it looks really italian.

ill be never good at this/

(EDIT- this was an old post)