Carnival the showstopper of fashion week
November 29th, 2007
Art and fashion came together for this year’s 07 Bali Fashion Week, which closed Saturday night with a gala event at Centro, Discovery shopping mall, Kuta, followed Sunday by the hugely successful “fashionONthestreet”.
Event organizer Mardiana Ika said the three-day event, which ran from Nov. 22-24, had been “highly successful, beyond our expectations”, with a 50 percent jump in participants from less than 100 in past years to 150 in 2007.
“The figures are not yet in, but from the success of participants orders (stock) and the valuable contacts made, it appears that Bali Fashion Week has been a great success,” Ika said.
Along with trade shows, seminars and nightly fashion parades, Bali Fashion Week also staged an exhibition of textiles, machinery, accessories and apparel that attracted around 3,000 viewers.
Sunday’s FashionONthestreet also attracted hundreds of spectators as weird and wonderful fashionistas wound their way from Discovery Plaza to the Hard Rock Caf‚ on Kuta Beach Road.
The Jember Fashion Carnival stole the FashiONthestreet show with beautifully constructed costumes; some like characters out of a Mad Max film, others from classic Chinese opera with a space odyssey twist.
“FashionONthestreet is the Bali for Bali event during Bali Fashion Week. It’s an opportunity for schools and other groups to take part,” Ika said.
– Trisha Sertori
Source: The Jakarta Post
Entry Filed under: Bali Tourism News
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