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Native to Fashion

Native to Fashion

This capsule collection are themed as “Native to Fashion”. There are total of 5 look in this collection and the major material are bemban. In this collection you can see strong silhouette with contrast colour of gold and black. It is designed to be contemporary looking but in traditional material.

The idea of this collection is to bring inspiration and create awareness to promote the beautiful culture of Iban Sarawak. When we think of Iban we will automatically think of pua kumbu, but not many of us know about bemban.

Bemban is a plant that is commonly used by the Iban people in Sarawak. It involves a lot of effort from harvesting to weaving. The artisans weave it to become a mat (tikar) or a basket (bakul).The main material we used in this collection are also bemban because this material represents the arts and crafts of the Iban people in Sarawak. We decided to apply innovation in fashion to create awareness to this traditional material.

In addition to this, we also want to create costume designs that empower women. As we know that bemban mats are actually produced by women. The weaver weaves by hand for days. To us, they are like a warrior working very hard to sustain their tradition. We came up with the idea of making it as a collection to represent 'women power' just like Wonder Woman and other female superheroes in action movies. We believe that a strong silhouette from the corset can bring attention that matches the women empowering concept. Thus, makes this collection a strong and meaningful one.


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