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Sejak beratus tahun masyarakat Indonesia telah bergaul dengan berbagai bangsa yang datang ke Nusantara. Akulturasi terjadi secara damai, termasuk dalam cara berpakaian.


Uniknya, meskipun Islam memberi pengaruh besar pada Indonesia, tetapi kita tidak menjadi seperti Arab. Banyak suku bangsa di Indonesia yang dalam pertemuannya dengan Islam menghasilkan kebudayaan yang khas.

Dalam berbusana, akulturasi itu juga terjadi. Proses yang tidak pernah berhenti ini setiap masa selalu menghasilkan gaya berbusana sesuai semangat zaman.

Mulai pertengahan 1980-an, berbusana muslimah dilihat tidak lagi cukup hanya dengan menutup kepala dengan selendang seperti layaknya masa-masa sebelumnya. Menutup rapat seluruh bagian tubuh yang dianggap aurat dipandang sebagai cara yang lebih pas. Bagian tubuh yang dapat diperlihatkan di tempat umum hanyalah wajah, telapak tangan, dan kaki.

Meskipun begitu, pakaian tetaplah memiliki fungsi sosial sebagai alat komunikasi dan ekspresi pemakainya. Karena itu, tidak mengherankan bila busana muslimah pun terus mencari bentuk-bentuk baru, hal yang direspons oleh Asosiasi Perancang Pengusaha Mode Indonesia sejak pertengahan 1990-an. Hal itu didorong pula tingginya kebutuhan mengingat mayoritas penduduk Indonesia adalah Muslim.

Alternatif

Mencari busana yang cocok dengan kepribadian amat penting. Hal itu yang dirasakan Tini Sardadi, pemilik usaha aksesori Art Kea, ketika mulai mengenakan busana muslimah sekitar awal tahun ini.

”Saya sering bertemu teman yang mengatakan tidak cocok memakai baju muslim karena merasa tidak menjadi diri sendiri,” kata Tini yang juga sempat memiliki perasaan yang sama.

Maklum, yang tersedia di pasar umumnya busana bergaya tunik atau abaya penuh payet dan bordir, sementara tidak semua orang merasa sreg mengenakan baju berpayet, bermanik, dan berbordir pada saat bekerja, misalnya.

”Bukannya tidak indah, semua bagus-bagus saja. Saya hanya ingin ada alternatif sehingga ada banyak pilihan yang bisa kita dapat,” tambah Tini.

Keinginan memberi alternatif itu yang dia tawarkan melalui buku 1001 Ide Kreatif Art Kea yang baru diluncurkan tengah bulan ini. Di dalam buku yang ditulis bersama Ami Wirabudi itu ditawarkan berbagai busana karya perancang busana Indonesia, dilengkapi petunjuk pemakaian tutup kepala.

Seperti diperlihatkan buku itu, busana muslim dapat berasal dari nonbusana muslim yang kemudian dipadukan dengan kerudung sehingga memenuhi aturan yang ada.

”Kami ingin menunjukkan kita tetap dapat mengenakan busana yang sudah ada yang kemudian kita kreasikan. Kerudungnya pun disesuaikan dengan udara tropis Indonesia yang panas dan lembab dengan hanya pakai satu lembar syal,” kata Tini. Pemakaian satu selendang ini juga untuk mengurangi kemungkinan pendengaran terhalang akibat mengenakan syal berlapis-lapis. Ditawarkan pula berbagai cara mengenakan kerudung yang disesuaikan dengan bentuk wajah.

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" And Say to the believing Women,that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (ordinarily)appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands,their fathers, their sons ......... Quran 24:31

Muslim Fashion Going Paris?



Going forward Middle Eastern Muslima's will really start to make you wonder what they're wearing underneath their long robes. Don't worry though, they plan on giving you outward clues with their latest Christian influenced fashions for abayas and headscarfs. The driving force behind this? Well, at first glance you might think it's all about showing off their crystals and precious metals, but really it's not..............so just keep on guessing. (;

From butterflies to crystals, women in Muslim Gulf region take pride in their trendy black robes.
Saifullah Nouraei, an Iranian designer and branch manager at one of the leading abaya retailers, said things had changed a great deal since women in the oil-rich region wore only plain abayas that came in a single piece covering them from head to toe.
"They now follow the fashion in everything. You can't be wearing a Giorgio Armani dress with a 100-dirham (27-dollar) abaya on top," he argued.

"We can't change the black color of the abaya, so we work on the design," he said.
Nouraei, whose displays include dazzling hand-made abayas fetching between 1,000 and 2,000 dollars apiece, said many customers choose their own designs, and the price depends on the load of precious metals they want sown on their garment.


Middle East Boycotts -- The Bandaid Approach

There has been a lot of activity lately about boycotting nations and their institutions in the Middle East. Within a week a British teacher's union voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions and the Ontario branch of Canada's largest union voted to boycott the nation of Israel, both on behalf of the Palestinians. These are not new, however. Over the past few years, there have been numerous calls and motions to boycott Israel, and its institutions, by churches, unions, and other organizations.


Meanwhile, the problems that exist between Israelis and Palestinians are as entrenched as ever. And, although there are far too many reasons why to delineate here, it may be at least in part because the boycott is weak and one-sided.



Last week, leaders of five indigenous nations went to Israel and presented the mayor of Jerusalem with a peace pipe as a blessing by the tribes to the people of the city during the anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem. Before that, leaders of other indigenous (also known as "First") nations went to Israel on a cultural exchange tour. And it's not only them. Uganda recently pronounced it has solid relations with Israel. Angola works closely with Israel. So do other African nations.

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French fashion designer Christian Lacroix' spring-summer 2007 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris.










Fashion purists would argue that this view of fashion - that how you style, or put together, your clothes has as much impact as the clothes themselves - is further evidence of the dumbing down of fashion. Those designers who are seen in the fashion industry as lacking substance are often dismissed as being "just stylists" who merely tweak and rearrange fashion material that is already out there.

Model designers

Clothes horses are trotting off the catwalk to create their own collections, but do they have the talent?

The hottest new British fashion designer of 2007 is not, as you might expect, some kooky young prodigy fresh out of London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. In fact, she has no design training at all. She has, however, spent nearly two decades at the centre of the fashion industry, notching up 23 Vogue covers and a few million in the bank along the way. She is, of course, Kate Moss.


In September, when Moss's new role as designer of her own Topshop range was an unconfirmed rumour, it had already attracted the kind of column centimetres most British designers spend their careers dreaming of. When the 90-piece range finally hits stores on May 1, scenes of mass hysteria are guaranteed. Few have thought to quibble with Moss's transition from wearing clothes to designing them - she is simply the latest and most high-profile example of a growing trend.


Elle Macpherson long ago graduated from life as a supermodel to being head of a thriving empire. In the past 18 months, Jovovich-Hawk - designed by Milla Jovovich and Carmen Hawk, both successful models - has become one of the most critically acclaimed small labels at New York fashion week. A stint on the catwalk is starting to look like a better leg-up in the designer ranks than an eye-catching degree show or an internship at Armani.


Moss is as famous for her wardrobe as she was for her waif-like figure 15 years ago. She has a finely tuned instinct for spotting a trend early. Combined with the ability to impart sex appeal to the most unlikely garments, she creates a virtuous circle: she spots something that could become a trend and she wears it, which guarantees it catches on. Even Hunter wellies, favoured footwear of pig farmers and fishermen, were imbued with glamour the moment Moss sported them backstage at a music festival.


Even at the height of her cover-girl fame, Macpherson says she never felt comfortable about making her career out of modelling. "I was a surfer chick studying law in Sydney," she says. "I started modelling to pay for school books. Fashion never really resonated with me, but five years into my career I had done a lot of lingerie shoots and I realised I could use my experience, along with the recognition I had, to launch a company. It was a business decision."


Macpherson was not the first model to cross over to designing - Twiggy put her name to a range of dresses in the 1960s - but the Australian's success as a businesswoman has altered perceptions of life beyond the catwalk. Macpherson modelled her early collections; today she is creative director of lingerie brand Elle Macpherson Intimates, a role that involves "working on design, packaging and behind-the-scenes stuff, as well as getting out front and selling it to the public".

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Paris favours return to femininity

Legendary designer Yohji Yamamoto paraded out camouflage prints in fabrics that smacked of war on a Paris runway today, but used bouncy shapes with an unmistakably romantic flavour.

Yamamoto's collection seemed to say love and passion still have a place in this rough-and-tumble world as the Paris shows for the spring-summer 2006 ready-to-wear season got under way.

In the first few garments Yamamoto sent out, he used camouflage prints for otherwise romantic silhouettes. Jackets and dresses were cut in straight lines with heavy dollops of ruffles and flounces that bounced around the neck and at the back of curvy jackets.

After the jarring contrasts, calm prevailed in the form of his signature navy blue and black angle-length straight dresses worn under long jackets, with lots of asymmetrical details fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Some jackets had curled bands on the shoulders and tails that trailed at the back, others had full skirts with soft pleats or bustles stuffed underneath. Ruffles were at times flattened into pointed wedges that streamed down the back of a coat or dress for a contemporary urban look.

The touch of passion came in the form of a curvy lipstick-red dress fabric with covered ropes sliding off the shoulders, a detail that carried right through to the bell-shaped white wedding dress at the finale.

For Walter Rodrigues, spring fashion is a four-letter word: S-O-F-T, and the Brazilian-born designer drew his inspiration from Yves Saint Laurent's signature colours.

Rodrigues dipped into YSL's palette of hot pink and tangerine flavours for Northern African garb, and offered up the exuberance of body-skimming 1970s silhouettes.

For daywear, he presented pencil-thin skirts with built-up cummerbund waists, while pleated camisole tops were worn over pleated chiffon trousers.

This year's shows have been billed as one of the prettiest, most romantic seasons seen in Paris in years. Catwalks were abounding with dresses, ruffles and soft, flowing fabrics.

Dresses and skirts - which made their comeback last season - will be all-important wardrobe items next spring. Most featured interesting draped, pin-tucked, ruffled or smocked details and empire waistlines.

In contrast to the in-your-face, sexy frocks from summers past, look for ladylike hemlines that fall anywhere from just above the knee to somewhere around the ankles.

Even when bare-midriff tops and pants turn up on runways, hip-huggers still rise to a respectable height - stopping just under the belly button.

For Lie Sang Bong, poetry was the inspiration.

Though more known for clothes pumped up with over-the-top, exaggerated 1980s volumes, the Korean-born designer lightened up this time with a softer, sweeter collection entitled, "Imperial Rose".

Daywear featured Edwardian-style pantsuits with ruffled blouses, curvy jackets and straight legged trousers all in dusty boudoir pastels. His usual angular shaped eveningwear was replaced by empire waist chiffon gowns with empire waists and cabbage rose prints.

Igor Chapurin dressed up his Paris debut by drawing on Bolshoi ballet themes. The Russian sent out variations of the chiffon and silk pleated dress worn over dancers' tights crushed over the ankle.

Yu Feng Shaw also took his first bow in Paris with a collection designed for Taiwanese label Shawnyi. Asymmetrical dresses came in patchworks of lace and chiffon with handkerchief hemlines and ruffles spilled from necklines and hips.

CELEBRITY FASHION

Supermodel Trades Couture for Clean Up

Fashion Wire Daily - New York - Model Naomi Campbell started her five-day community service stint Monday as part of her sentence for throwing a cell phone at a maid's head. The 36-year-old mannequin showed up to the New York City's Sanitation Department's Lower East Side location donning slim brown pants, a black coat and a black newsboy cap. Ever the supermodel, Campbell sported stiletto ankle boots to report for duty. But the pair of rugged work boots slung over her shoulder was evidence of what she would wear to clean toilets and mop floors.

Campbell pleaded guilty in January to throwing her jewel-encrusted cell phone at Ana Scolavino, after the model's former maid failed to locate a pair of missing jeans. In exchange for her guilty plea, the judge ordered Campbell to pay for the maid's $363 medical bill, serve five days of community service, and attend a two-day anger management class.

This is not the first time the notoriously hotheaded model has gotten in trouble for her temper. In 2000 she pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to throwing a telephone at her then assistant Georgina Galanis. In October 2006, Campbell was arrested in London on suspicion of assault, and in November of the same year, the model's former housekeeper Gaby Gibson accused her ex-employer as being a "violent super-bigot," according to the New York Daily News.

The judge handling Campbell's case allowed the model to do her community service indoors, unlike fellow Brit Boy George - born George O'Dowd - who had to do his time outside wearing an orange vest in front of a dozen photographers. O'Dowd served five days of community service for falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment where cops found cocaine instead.

According to the Associated Press, the judge also allowed Campbell to start service until after the fashion shows in Paris, Milan and New York.