There Batik in Paris

Batik back into the international designer choice. This time, Dries van Noten used batik for a collection of spring and summer of 2010 at Paris fashion week ended last Thursday.

Van Noten is known for his tendency to use ethnic elements into the design. This time she took the motif of Javanese batik slope, machetes, and batik floral coast, slope, and tie motif reminiscent of the fabric of East Nusa Tenggara.

As reported the New York Times on line and the International Herald Tribune, inspired Van Noten is the Paris, Tokyo, and Calcutta. Paris gave the grace and live comfortably, Tokyo is a blend between tradition and modernity, and Calcutta provides the energy and joy.

Van Notten combines batik motif with belt no less festive. Coastal batik superiors in brown color with the flowers she integrated with holster-style skirt purple belt motif, complete with a wide sash at the waist, reminiscent of the style of Balinese women's traditional dress. Others, batik motifs barong machete broken-white color shirt, blouse made a purple skirt teamed patterned tie. Same batik skirt made span. Tie also become the main material other Van Noten, both as short and long jackets, pants, dresses, and skirts.

Used batik motif, belt, and striated in Van Noten collection this time is not impossible because of the influence of one of the Indonesian assistant, Heaven. Before continuing its mode of education in Belgium, Heaven had worked in the Biyan Wanaatmadja.

In the hands of Van Noten, a fabric processing with an acceptable taste the international public. Hit motifs and colors still produce a harmonious blend, while for that to secure the motives batik or tie together with a plain fabric in a simple silhouette.

Of course, Van Noten is not the first international designer who never wear batik. Previously Paul Smith repeatedly borrow batik style, so did she wear batik motifs cloudy mega Cirebon, also Armani.

Unfortunately, the international fashion world was not much aware of very wealthy Javanese batik decoration and motifs and philosophical meaning. Most consider only the style of batik cloth and do not much care whether created using night or in-print. After UNESCO recognizes Indonesian batik as a world cultural heritage, following joint work is to promote Indonesian batik.

Various bids
Performance in Paris this time due to a variety of festive offers from designers and fashion houses. With the designer Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, for example, clearly takes the lifestyle of young people (rich) in the style army jacket, shoulder bag tassel berhiasan, slippers with fur accents, as well as a mini dress and lots of shorts suit blouse with her hair Afro style models extra look blooming.

Instead Chanel. Karl Lagerfeld chose the theme of spring with flowers everywhere, even pergelarannya simulated in the cattle sheds, complete with a pile of hay. In fact, typical Chanel jacket was decorated with embroidered flowers.

For Dior, John Galliano took inspiration from the stars of the silver screen with an emphasis on style lingerie for slim long dresses a la the 1940s. Hair dresser era following the 1940s with natural curly hair and shoulder-length bright red lipstick. However, Galliano also made design outer jacket style is also reminiscent of the androgynous style that became a theme in Paris.

On the other side of Viktor and Rolf have a design reminiscent of the dress for a creative contest contest fashion school students, while Gareth Pugh from the UK showed his creative side with the measured. Pugh presents a long dress made of chiffon ribbons soft, giving the impression fragile and soft, contrasted with the thick berpupur models.

And, of course the media invade performance Emanuel Ungaro fashion house. Not merely to see his collection, but the hunt for actress Lindsay Lohan is a creative adviser to the fashion house.

About collections are designed with Estrella Archs, many of which ranked far from expectations. It is not easy to create a collection, even if you have a big name.