Love of design brings luck for young Bandung student
Love of design brings luck for young Bandung student
Kunang Helmi-Picard, Contributor, Paris
The 20th Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode
(Young Designers Fashion Contest) apparently brought great luck
to 21-year-old Anissa Kunthi Kusumawardhani.
The student of the school of sociology at a university in
Bandung -- who took a course at a school of design in her
hometown -- won the jackpot by taking the Grand Prize in Fashion
Accessory at the contest, which took place on Dec. 17, at the
Caroussel du Louvre, Paris.
The excited Anissa, who attended the announcement, won an Air
France return ticket from Jakarta to Paris and 3,000 euros
(around US$3,000) plus her certificate and an additional 2,000
euros from the Art Profession Association.
With the theme "Fashion and Love" for both garment and
accessory entries, Anissa managed to illustrate the possession of
love in her scarf design, Possessive.
Two stuffed gloves in fuchsia red tones encircle the lover's
neck from which the floral pink brocade scarf flows down. The
jury, including world-class designer Pierre Cardin, fell for the
simplicity and inventiveness of an accessory of a type now much
in use in wintry Europe.
Anissa's victory is a follow-up of another Indonesian young
designer, Rusly Tjohnardi, who won the prize in 2000. In 1996,
Abineri Ang won the Grand Prize for fashion besides the other
Indonesian Accessory prize winner two years previously.
"This is great and it's a wonderful incentive for Indonesian
fashion students. This victory will keep Indonesia on the map of
fashion creation," exclaimed Pia Alisjahbana of the Femina Group.
Since 1983, Air France and the Syndical for French Fashion
have sponsored this contest that has drawn young fashion students
from 18 countries in Asia, America and South America. Indonesia
has so far participated 11 times.
Dewi magazine organized the selection for the contest. This
year, the magazine staged a similar contest on Oct. 31 at Hotel
Mulia Senayan, Central Jakarta. The jury chose 10 finalists for
the garment contest and five for the accessory contest.
Unfortunately, Muthia Ratna Wijaya, of the Susan Budiarjo
Fashion School in Jakarta, missed out on the main fashion prize
-- an Air France return ticket from Jakarta to Paris, a year's
tuition at the Syndical Fashion School and 3,000 euros -- as the
award went to Chinese Chin Chi, whose creation was a simple white
long wedding dress with a shawl collar.
But Muthia, who also attended the event, was awarded one of
three Special Mention prizes of 450 euros.
Muthia created an outfit named Memento. Material documenting
memories, strips of tape recordings and celluloid film were woven
into a patchworked miniskirt with strips dangling below. The top
was held in place by a plaited cat collar of the same strands
from which strips fell loosely to join the waistline of the
miniskirt with a bare back. Silver strips were worked into the
elegant brown and black evening outfit.
Kunang Helmi-Picard, Contributor, Paris
The 20th Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode
(Young Designers Fashion Contest) apparently brought great luck
to 21-year-old Anissa Kunthi Kusumawardhani.
The student of the school of sociology at a university in
Bandung -- who took a course at a school of design in her
hometown -- won the jackpot by taking the Grand Prize in Fashion
Accessory at the contest, which took place on Dec. 17, at the
Caroussel du Louvre, Paris.
The excited Anissa, who attended the announcement, won an Air
France return ticket from Jakarta to Paris and 3,000 euros
(around US$3,000) plus her certificate and an additional 2,000
euros from the Art Profession Association.
With the theme "Fashion and Love" for both garment and
accessory entries, Anissa managed to illustrate the possession of
love in her scarf design, Possessive.
Two stuffed gloves in fuchsia red tones encircle the lover's
neck from which the floral pink brocade scarf flows down. The
jury, including world-class designer Pierre Cardin, fell for the
simplicity and inventiveness of an accessory of a type now much
in use in wintry Europe.
Anissa's victory is a follow-up of another Indonesian young
designer, Rusly Tjohnardi, who won the prize in 2000. In 1996,
Abineri Ang won the Grand Prize for fashion besides the other
Indonesian Accessory prize winner two years previously.
"This is great and it's a wonderful incentive for Indonesian
fashion students. This victory will keep Indonesia on the map of
fashion creation," exclaimed Pia Alisjahbana of the Femina Group.
Since 1983, Air France and the Syndical for French Fashion
have sponsored this contest that has drawn young fashion students
from 18 countries in Asia, America and South America. Indonesia
has so far participated 11 times.
Dewi magazine organized the selection for the contest. This
year, the magazine staged a similar contest on Oct. 31 at Hotel
Mulia Senayan, Central Jakarta. The jury chose 10 finalists for
the garment contest and five for the accessory contest.
Unfortunately, Muthia Ratna Wijaya, of the Susan Budiarjo
Fashion School in Jakarta, missed out on the main fashion prize
-- an Air France return ticket from Jakarta to Paris, a year's
tuition at the Syndical Fashion School and 3,000 euros -- as the
award went to Chinese Chin Chi, whose creation was a simple white
long wedding dress with a shawl collar.
But Muthia, who also attended the event, was awarded one of
three Special Mention prizes of 450 euros.
Muthia created an outfit named Memento. Material documenting
memories, strips of tape recordings and celluloid film were woven
into a patchworked miniskirt with strips dangling below. The top
was held in place by a plaited cat collar of the same strands
from which strips fell loosely to join the waistline of the
miniskirt with a bare back. Silver strips were worked into the
elegant brown and black evening outfit.