SPRING 2012 - Trend Alert, Runway Report, and more!

We all know that the Paris Fashion Week has just ended a few days ago and the spectacular Louis Vuitton finale with the symmetrical escalators and almost all of the collections left us in awe of the madness of spring with out-of-the-world cuttings, and fresh new ideas as well as innovations.

First of all, we got a glimpse of casual couture and athletic influences such as well-tailored sportswear-inspired outer-wears - although most designers are still  not able to untangle the wild prints and patterns, symbolic to the spring vibe. On the other side designers such as Alexander Wang, Narcisso Rodriguez and Altuzarra successfully brought sportswear-inspired pieces to a whole new level and glamour.

Alexander Wang, sporting an uber-cute sweat jacket paired with matching shorts and white Mary-Jane heels. 

Second, 1920s inspired look is back on track! Basic black dresses with unique cuttings and design, ankle-high socks paired with dainty loafers, or lace? Roberto Cavalli obviously interprets lace quite beautifully by creating a showstopping dress with lace on top and applying a see-through tulle in the torso. I'm actually most impressed with Fendi's interpretation of the 20s by creating a skater-esque dress with various accessories as the embellishment - oh, and the hair and make up concept, bravo!

Fendi, fashioning an uber-cool dress with unimaginable appliques and fabulous hair and make up concept, ode to the 1920s. 

Third, and probably the least striking trend of the time-being, is the good,old ladylike trend. Pastel hues, light  embellishments created with high details. Valentino and Dolce and Gabbana recreated a whole new ladylike concept with sheer appliques, assuring us that a lady still can have that sexy, raunchy side - although not that much. Much different with the major consensus, I'm actually more aware and interested to Proenza Schouler's take on the ladylike stuff. Wild colorful floral prints matched with contrasting skinny belts and gloves are the highlight of the entire collection. 

Proenza Schouler's collection highlight (my favorite though) with model sporting wild print top and color-block skirt and black gloves. Perfectly matched with black platform heels! Oui!

Sooooo, those are the highlights of SPRING 2012. I myself is quite satisfied with what the designers brought up. There are still several trends to come on my next review, keep yourself posted! 

xx, Rafi. 

I WANT TO BE LIKE DADDY.

PREPPY//DAILY

PORTFOLIO #1 Cesyl Secioria's Technicolor Life Mini Album

Whew. It has been such a looooooooong time for me from the last time I updated this blog. Sigh. Man, I was so busy. I have loads of school stuffs [not to mention the excessive number of tests to be done in a week] that hinders me from posting.

Without further ado, let me present my first portfolio session with one of my dearest girls, Cesyl Secioria. You may get a hint of who she is from her last name, and yes, she is the daughter of one of Indonesia's top musical maestros, the late Elfa Secioria.

She is on the way to producing her very first jazz-themed mini album entitled "Technicolor Life" - here are the stills of the photos I took [and several styling I did on her outfits] which might be used as features in her mini album later on.

THE MORNING: PREPARATION

PHOTO-SESSION!

PHOTOGRAPHY & STYLING BY AKHMAD Z. ( @heyyrafi)

Soooo, those are some of my best stills from the photo-shoot. Make sure you guys keep yourself posted for her mini album release [which is actually her personal project, as one of the requirement to complete her IB programme at her school] - but is still very enjoyable especially for jazz music lovers, Indonesian music supporters, or music fans alike. You can contact her through twitter- @cesylathayaF!

TRAVELLING LIGHT

FLORAL FIESTA

reminisce.

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who keep reading this blog. Although i'm genuinely not that sure that all of you are loyal enough to keep track of my writings, which are dumb - most of the time. But still, thank you heaps for all you aliens who keep reading  my posts.

I just did my IGCSE Exam earlier today and it was extremely displeasing. I manage to do most of it but doubted my reasoning on several others - I may be dead by now. 

Anyways, I went to a place called Kota Tua, which is basically the only place that preserves, well, old heritages and is the closest artistic place for us Jakarta people to take excessive amounts of photos.

So here are several of my "Gosh I'm so proud of my artistic intelligence" photos

So yeah, these are some of the photographs I took there - fyi, I'm using an Olympus semi-pro camera, and retouched using Pixlr. I'm really into dark photographs lately and attempts my best to do so.

I got no time to post my recent style because I actually planned to post my style while visiting a nearby amusement park in Jakarta - but I needed to pass a lot of hard obstacles to receive the photos from my friends.

That's it for now.

Adieu, Rafi

stay dope.