Fusion
— qaris • May 18th, 2007
Asia is benefitted by it’s culture diversity. There is no continent that’s so heterogenous like Asia. You can found hundreds of different clothes from deserted badoui in Arabian desert to the stone age tribal in Papua, Indonesia. Moreover many Asian cultures still living till this time.
Many Asian fashion designers use that cultures diversity to create their collections. Last week, for example, the Indian designer Satya Paul exhibited his sari collection that so interesting and received big attention in Kalkota.
The collection include a new line of women’s wear called “trouser-saris” and “skirt-saris” that, as the names suggest, are pre-pleated saris with a trouser underneath, and a skirt pleated and designed to look like a sari. The designers say the new line is meant for those Indian women who find wearing a sari cumbersome and are not confident about carrying it off.
Although the designers of this brand that mints money selling “globally styled” saris “all over the world” are unwilling to admit that saris are fast giving way to Western wear in Indian women’s wardrobes, they add that urban Indian women are “enamored” with Western attire and the sari needs to evolve “beyond the traditional garment”.
A week before Paul, the Indonesian designer Anne Avantie show her kebaya collection (traditional clothes of Javanese woman). Just like Paul, Avantie did not make the original traditional dress collections, but mixed the traditional style with modern one. The traditional style with the modern touch. That efforts made traditional clothes got his new breath in new millenium. So the clothes could be worn by anyone, in any occasion.
When wearing their clothes, you would’nt looked like some one who want to attend a costume party.
Fusion needed and could not be pushed aside.
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