Indigenous Fashion

FiMinin as one of The local movements.

Yea we are! :D

 

Anin | Ashfi | Yasmin
Photographer : Kurniawan Surya S.

All Batik Materials. Pendopo Anjani (@ PVJ Bandung) & Galeria Jakarta (@ Citos Jakarta)

Yasmin's gold necklace. Nyala 

us. the generation of mixed culture is one of the most lovely subject that we want to discuss. nothing is too big really, it's just somehow the culture seems to flirt one another, yet it's better that way than to hate one another, mixed mixed mixed. Recently at our campus us had issues about why jeans is what everybody have and wears almost everyday, and some tends to judge us (young ones) was being colonized by the western popular culture, especially in Indonesia with geographically located on the middle of intersection between 2 continents (southeast Asia & Australia) and 2 oceans (Indian & Pacific). It's rather hard for us not to be easily getting influences from other country, yet we still have our pride from the designers and local products. Well let us try to be indigenous here by term of fashion, there are several other examples beside our pictures above. 

Clockwise : Senior Designer Eddie P. Chandra, Poppy Dharsono & Lennor by Lenny Agustin

 ( Photo : Ours & Fashion Windows )

And this is somethiing really interesting to represent such Indigenous Fashion from Vogue cover and Estee Lauder campaign of how they mixed the multi cultural faces and styles.

Clockwise : Vogue China, Estee Lauder campaign, Vogue Nippon & Vogue India

( Photo : Fashion Gone Rogue & Business Of Fashion ) 

mixed mixed mixed

.the characters.

FMN

officially launched

 poster design for Em & Asma by. Ashfi Qamara

world wide web. LOVE HFW. the generic top level domain, com

The Idea that pursue Em of Modest Theory to make an event that gathers all the online fashion activist was amazing, and mostly now there's two hosts behind this, Em and Asma of Haute Muslimah,  how genius this turned out to be, each link owners by automatically shares the link that have all the links you want, by the context of "Hijab", we're very exited when Em invited us to join at the first time, we're hoping someday all of us could gather in one country maybe once a year or once in 5 years | economic factor | . 

The Momentum of HFW layering the digital era of opportunity somehow exaggerates the awareness of each blog character, it's not a competition, it's the point where everybody voluntary contributes their fashion sense, and let the readers decide which she fit best.

Welcoming the HFW web launch,

have fun ladies ! 

Salam & Respect

FMN

modest lunch & fashion environment

 

Images of everything cool.

Emel Magazine | Anntian | Monstore | Gemma Ward, Hekmag cover | Frida Gustavsson, Elle Sweden sept '10  | Vogue China, models Tao Okamoto, Liu Wen, Ming Xi, Shu Pei and Fei Fei Sun, editorial shot by Peter Lindbergh | Mario Testino x Sasha Pivovarova for V Magazine | Harper's BAZAAR October issue '09 photo:  Arseto Adiputra, Model : Drina Ciputra | Street Look : Harajuku, Tokyo Fashion | Hijabs High | Tavi Gevinson | Fatima | Zara Online Catalogue | New Magazine in Town, Nylon Indonesia

The Environment of Fashion tends to create an illusion of culture society, it somehow revealing the walls or the "Hijab" (boundary) in various length and height, talking about silver age and it's modern-ism virus, yes, virus, it spread aggressively with the urge of mastery in each individual, not saying it's bad, not also saying it's good, as human being which almost every mad philosophy scientist suggesting "cogito ergo sum" (Descartes) , "I think, therefor I am". just which group of us human not to think? human no animal, being selfish, arrogant and tend to love themselves too much, dealing with over confident people wasn't easy, frustrating really how all of it  lead up to what we called digital culture, making "trends" each day, lifestyle, Architecture and of course Fashion itself,  Human Existence which also took most of the part.

Not being Skeptic for the future generation, or when our time to "lead". the thing is to understands what happend in the past, the present phenomenon and the future strategy, it is hard, by the fact there is too  much distraction, Facebook notifications, Twitter mentions (revealing unfold sacred mind, unnecessary), iPad applications (though we would like to have one).

Fashion spread is a common tittle for magazine, fashion designers & photographers to use, even fashion blog, say might. the making of Fashion image and it's message behind it, important just like some brands pursuing the aspect of art and meaning ex. Anntian from Berlin and Monstore from Indonesia, Hekmag also the magazine who offers unique fashion and art, there's always a mystery behind every high end creative images, almost every images & writings always end up in the sack of magazine rack on the roadside, wait to be bought by people with money and the thirst of inspiration, it also doesn't mean much better in virtually, hardware is still to be the everlasting product to be romanticized analyzed and memorized.

Awkward yet feels very liberating how future oriented people come up with ideas, Islam already have a so called "Fashion Dress-code". the ideas of what you wear is who you are, and like the 14 year old Tavi Gevinson said in her presentation about The Unpredictability of Gen Y (L2 Generation Next Forum), that being trendy doesn't really worked, cause their over in 2 seconds. as we also wonder what Nylon brought to Indonesian youngsters, they would come up with some new trends, the styling is quite modest, urbanized and no too hedonistic, they keep it simple, just hope it won't change and make the youngsters such a hedonistic consumer, freakish facts. and also love the fact there's Monica Hapsari as contributor, real awesome illustration. The point is | Purpose Maximizer | Good Brands | Urge to get better at stuff | Self Directed | Culture, Character & Media Strategy | Islamic Fashion.


By Time, Indeed Mankind is in Loss, Except for...  
QS: Al-Asr 

mode et l'architecture

 oh WOW.

Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute

"The special exhibition is part of a larger fashion show at MOT from Kyoto Costume Institute called Luxury Reconsidered. Looking at society’s changing ideas about the meaning and purpose of luxury in fashion, it examines different cultural and historical perspectives including ostentatious luxury, the luxury of simplicity and more personal or intellectual luxury (which is where Comme des Garçons fits in). The exhibition continues until January 2010."-amelia groom-

(photo source : big in japan)

speaking of fashion and architecture, some of these collection were very structured and also friendly for muslim wears, very simple and down to earth, the millennium cutting was overrated, loving it much, and this could effect a lot for our next FMNstyle photoshoot (somehow, maybe ;p), very inspiring. we wonder what's the story behind this great design? every architect have a concept, and every designer should have. Even blogger (...duh!?)

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another cool picture we got from bergdorfgoodman, the suit from Akris somehow reminds us of Mr. Mies Van De Rohe and his famous Barcelona chair, like he said "less is more"

| Karlie Kloss wearing Akris designer Albert Kreimler |

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"Fashion is Architecture, it is a matter of proportions."

-Coco Chanel-

Mystic Of The Heart

"What's the longest, but also the shortest, 

the fastest, but also that late,

we all did not heed him, but after that we all regret it, 

nothing can be done without it, 

he swallowed all the small and build all that great?" 

Thats's the Time.

(Quoted from the book Al-Quran The Ultimate Secret, Jil-2; Mystic Of The Heart)



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"Therefore be patient with good patience."  

(Al-Qur'an, the verses of the surah Al-Ma'aarij)



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(photo source : azahra)

don't forget why we required to wear it.

"we sometimes forget, and thought it was all for the fashion. But it's about the character of being muslims, and fashion should not always comes with glamor, but with grace and beauty from within (it IS and it's SUPPOSE to be hard, and that's the fun part ;p, what's life without difficulty? ignorance of civilization)."

while faith has been thinned by the world dazzled him.

]we are the humans at the end of time[

FMN.
&
The Great Reminder, Sir Musadiq Marhaban

 

galerie

"étudiants en architecture"

Standort : HMPS Ars, UNPAR

colour card

note to colour up!

send us your own themed hijab style photoshoot with your friends

to fiminin@gmail.com

then let us do the rest ;)

and remember

we still love to stalk you from our facebook page

from there you can add some photos of your self, with your own hijab style

we would really appreciate that

spread the love

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the month we've been missing.

O Allah.., this truly blessed month and was revealed in the Qur'an, a guidance for mankind and the explanation for guidance and separating path (rights and vanity) has arrived.

Maka, Selamatkanlah kami didalamnya dan selamatkanlah ia bagi kami, serta terimalah ia dari kami dengan kemudahan dan afiat dari-Mu. Wahai Yang Menerima amalan yang sedikit dan mensyukuri yang banyak, terimalah amalan yang sedikit ini dariku.

Magazine : Aquila Asia

Burkini, anyone?

( Image courtesy: Aquila Asia )

FMN analysis :

after words, this magazine makes some big movement in hijab high fashion revival ( and so we also suggest ), they have this concept for modern muslima, which is applied with interesting fashion photography & editorial pics, and we think aquila magazine could compete with other fashion magazine such as vogue, bazaar, etc,. , yet there still too many articles and less fashion photo (somehow the fashion photo thirst is overrated) . but not too bad for you too have it, it is quite inspiring for muslims, great paper quality too, we hope this magazine for success in the future , as we hope for our success :D