So, I guess all of us do get press releases promoting various fashion weeks around the planet. We all know about Sao Paulo , Tokyo, which are actually becoming bigger and more important these years. We know also of some difficulties to organize fashion weeks in the continent of Africa, where South Africa, and particularly Cape town and Johannesburg are doing their best to put the continent on the world map of fashion. There is also the odd or strange edition of, for instance, Athens Fashion Week last year, the not yet extremely interesting Moscow Fashion Week, the secluded Seoul Fashion week, etc…
But, if you look at the pictures we have received and which I am here publishing, courtesy of image.net, nothing on the field of “international” fashion weeks is quite like the event organized in Jakarta 9 days ago.
On the first day of the first Festival Mode Indonesia and Jakarta Fashion Week 2008, the organizers have gathered six specifically “Muslim” designers ( Monika Jufry, Merry Pramono, Jeny Tjahyawati, Anne Rufaidah, Fenny Mustafa, Hannie Hananto) for a runway show… on a special event called “APPMI” to bring together the ethnic riches of the archipelago of Indonesia. Bring together, but not mix! And this is where, both ideologically and aesthetically, I have started to question myself about some paradoxes.
http://newageislam.com/a-muslim-fashion-show?-yes,-in-jakarta!--/islamic-culture/d/873
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