At just 22 years old, fashion designer Dian Pelangi has been earmarked the unofficial poster girl for the introduction of Indonesian Islamic fashion to the world.
Hijab Street Style is Dian Pelangi's first book, which presents over 700 styles of Muslimah/Muslim from various cities in Indonesia and even from other countries in Southeast Asia. Matched to the title, all of the women that are featured in this book are not models that are set for a photoshoot but impromptu models from various backgrounds whom Dian met when she attended talkshows and fashion show events.
Dian believes adaptability to local cultures in terms of understanding the colors and cuts they prefer can be reconciled with the use of traditional Indonesian textiles. It may be this pragmatic outlook that has enabled Dian to crack the international fashion scene. She joins a phalanx of local designers who are striving to adapt traditional Indonesian textiles such as songket (woven cloth embroidered with thread dipped in molten gold or silver), tenun and batik formerly reserved for weddings and ceremonies.
Together with her father, she devised a new way to create songket using a weaving machine. The songket can then be wrought into cropped blazers, jackets and long dresses. The batik cloth she uses, depicting abstract flora in resplendent aqua blues, mustard yellows, violets and wine reds, is also homemade, and these she juxtaposes with geometric tenun motifs to make U- and V-neck zippered blazers and cropped jackets with wide lapels and large buttons, resulting in an ethnic look with a bold, city-slicker cut.
Her efforts to go international is not the self-aggrandizing dream of so many local singers, actors and fashion designers but forms part of a larger vision of dispelling discrimination toward wearers of hijab caused by the predominant donning of dark monotones that may give an impression of unfriendliness or inapproachability.
Review text by Sinta Khoiriyah (0919013641) :
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