fashion design portfolio marleen peters
populo batik
a contemporary fashion collection, preserving the art of Indonesian Batik craftsmanship
Populo designs a Batik line, which uses the traditional Indonesian Batik heritage and combines it with an international design approach referring pattern, colour use, and silhouettes. At the same time the company puts efforts in constantly improving the production process to achieve a more sustainable and eco-friendly product. The result is a new way and understanding of Batik.
populo batik - introduction
natural bee wax
cap - wax stamping
tulis - wax drawing
dying and wax removal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mqBmK9F9K8
TOMORROW populo x kelly tandtiono
Inspired by a global warming scale, this collection visualises how the temperatures of our planet increase and is trying to rise awareness on the topic of global warming. While the colour of each stripe in this scale represents, how the temperature of our planet raised between 1850 and 2017, we choose blocks, following the colour gradation, to represent the global warming within the collection simple and undeniable.
populo batik - 25th anniversary
The new developed motif is referred to one of the oldest indonesian pattern, Parang. Further it also carries Kelly Tandionos passion, triathlon, in reflecting the 3 elemets, water-swimming, air-cycling and earth-running.
populo batik - 25th anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7fReRJuoIY
NOW
populo x davy linggar
CHOOSE black
white
do we have to choose? male
female
do we really have to choose? left
right
why do we have to choose? up
down
why choose without options?
our world is not that simple... Nowadays we live in a world of separations. Socially and politically we are facing extremes to all sides and the demand to choose a side. These times are dangerous and threatening to humanity. The NOW collection on the first view mirrors our time. Black (Davy Linggar) and White (POPULO Batik), male models in black and female models in white, but when you have a closer look you can see shades of colors. On both collections different fabrics and dyings feature shades of black and shades of white.
our world is much more than just black and white
populo batik - 25th anniversary
populo batik - 25th anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95aH93ptBaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ZIHMb3m8Y
YESTERDAY staple collection
Telling the story of Populo Batik while being sustainable, this collection is created by only using leftover fabrics from previous collections. Combining batik motives which are previsously created for certain collections and combinations can be a challenge but also opens up new ways of creating and exploring the variety of Populo Batiks arichieve as well as the variety of the heritage of insondesian Batik making.
every piece tells a different story every motive has a different meaning
populo batik - 25th anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlzySP4qKQ
layers
autumn-winter 2019
Parang as one of the oldest pattern of the javanese court, merged and layered with the new developed flowers, representing japan, results in a modern appearance of batik. Mixed and layered fabrics symbolize the blurry transition between cultures, temperatures and seasons today.
populo batik - japanese market
are we our grandparents dreams and expectations? graduation collection
The collection ‚are we our grandparents dreams and expectations?‘ takes up the topic of postcolonial development in regards to Indonesia. It concerns with the questions like:
how a colonized country can reclaim to it’s pre-colonial heritage? where do we see the own and the impurity? how it is possible to combine the emerging diversity into a unity?
concept
The main focus of Indonesian tradition lies on the Indonesian Batik, which works as storyteller. The chosen Batik patterns are modernized and simplified, but still convey their meaning into the present. The technique of overlapping and merging patterns reflect the complexity of the various meanings and traditions, and illustrate the unity in diversity wich Indonesia is often described with.
mood - persona - concept inspiration
traditional indon
This collection is a try, to get a closer understanding of the complex, Indonesian society, a collection which went on the search of historian an current influence of colonialism to capture the arising diversity. Always under the reserve of a small glimpse, a small part of the traditions and cultures of Indonesia.
colonial era influence
graduation collection
western influence
nesaian
merging set off athleisure
modern Batik
muslimwear
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turquoise or bluegreengrowing out of blue and green, it combines the impact these colours have on us. As blue stands for emotions lik yearning and symbolizing depth and vastness, green conveys harmony, hope and growth. Turquoise is choosen as a symbol for the development countries like Indonesia have and the hopes as also the dreams they have for the future. Also the colour is associated to investiveness, calmness and happiness, here it should stand for how the people live and handle the present.
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light brown/beigeit‘s choosen to symbolize attachment to the own country. It stand for pragmatism (‚downto-earth‘) and the security humans feel in their own traditions and their known surrounding.
graduation collection
graduation collection
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U.Q.E satuan pre graduation collection
U.Q.E is developed out of the word ‚unique‘, satuan is the Indonesian word for unit. An individual unitey, what a family in ideal case embodies. At first the outfits, in particular for the adults, appear in a stiffer way. Secondly they get breached by the finishing and textile design details, which integrates them together with the arise of the children, into the general mood of harmony. Lightness and equilibrium, an unconventional playful way of handling reality and being in love with details is what this ollection reflects.
mood
pre graduation collection
colour chart
pre graduation collection
pre graduation collection
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