missfotografie: Japanese

2014

MINIMAL

11:51 PM

After few months of blogging hiatus, I'm back again ppl!
It's been a while since I posted my works here, so here's the time to spam your timeline.

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For this project, I set my moodboard since months ago and finally got time to do it. My favorite muse, no other than Yvonne (my roomie) is in the house, together with my new Japanese friend, Yuuka Honda, and also my beloved new "brother" from Indonesia, Richard.

PAR// Natalia Pek

Talents// Yvonne Won, Yuuka Honda, Richard

2014

BUSAN FASHION WEEK 2014

8:54 PM

YO! Whats up yo?!

OMG. Why I become this weird?

Hello everyone! I'm back!
I'm sorry for neglecting this blog and didn't really update it. I'm super busy with my things and now I decided to update it again with some flash news on BUSAN FASHION WEEK.

It was sooooooo AWESOME that I can't describe it more than that. 2 years ago, when I was doing the exchange program here, I didn't get a chance to participate this. So when I found out this year also got the Fashion Week, I decided to go. Well, most of the days I went there alone but guess what, IT IS NOT BAD AT ALL! Sorry people, it's not that I don't want to go with friends but honestly, going to this kind of event alone is way better. You'll see what I'm talking about later.

I will post some of the highlights of each show I attended so bear with me.

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//DAY 1

OK. First day. I saw the full schedule of the fashion shows in the 'Pret-a-Porter' event and the really famous designers were on the 26th and 27th. Therefore, I went there on the first day just to see the exhibition. Well, I was curious and wanted to know the exhibition. So I went there with my Indonesian friend, Tabita. Just so you know, on the first day of the event, the infamous Girl's Day were there. They're having some fan-signing event but it started at 10am. We arrived there at 2pm but WE SAW THEM! I didn't really know them, so I just snapped some pictures of whoever it is (it turns out to be Mina) then go. HAHA. Because the exhibition was just hmmm.. yea like that so we decided to watch some shows. They had a fashion design contest so we just went in and see what it is. I'm surprised that many student designers are so GOOD! At least I'm happy with it.

With Tabita

OOTD but not quite

FASHION DESIGN CONTEST collection

//DAY 2

Another perks of going to Fashion Week alone: did nothing but got a VIP ticket

On the second day, I knew that there's one famous Korean designer but I didn't know who he is. I decided to go see his show but before that, I watched a Japanese designer called Ryosuke Egasira (if I didn't spell it wrong) a.k.a RYORYO. His collection were really minimalist yet elegant.

Then after RYORYO, I was waiting in line for that famous Korean designer called Hwang Jae Geun a.k.a ZÊ QUUN. This is what I'm talking about earlier. I was waiting to get in but then when the staff checked my ticket, it didn't have the seat number. So some staff went in with me inside to exchange the ticket and that's when I saw Jae Geun. I knew it was him because he's bald and everyone inside wants to take picture with him. SO I asked the staff that accompanied me to take a picture for me.

SEE? At least I got a special thing that everyone don't have. It's the perks of going alone to a fashion show HAHAHA. Anyway..

It was an wonderful collection from ZÊ QUUN. BRAVA!

//DAY 3

OOTD taken by Musa Gunawan

FINAL DAY! This is the day that we're all waiting for. HA SANG BAEK!

Actually I didn't know who he is at first, then I googled him and found out who he is. He's one of the SUPER FAMOUS fashion designers in Korea. Some of his collection worn by SHINEe so maybe you saw it before in some magazine editorials. So in his show, he talked about how he got the concept for his S/S 2015 collection, the moodboard and everything. After that, the show began.

RESIST by HA:SANG;BEG

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That's all folks. I hope you enjoy what I'm sharing. If you're a fashion designer, YOU ARE LUCKY FOR READING THIS. If you're just fashion people, YOU TOO ARE LUCKY! You're neither? Well, at least it gives you some knowledge.

Ciao.

P.S. if you want to see the whole collection of these 3 designers, I posted in my Instagram some time-lapse videos of those designers.

2013

Hymn to Hope

11:45 PM

Heyyy everybody! How's your days?
I'm graduating already and now i'm on my way to pursue the next thing in life, that's MAKING MONEY! oh my God, my head.

So, I haven't introduce this guy formally here but I think I've mentioned about him in my previous posts. One of my best friends, Evan a.k.a Papercaptain, is doing his personal project nowadays. Honestly, I really want to do something together with him, collaborating or something but I don't think it's possible since Evan is really a busy person. Then I asked him for a special request, draw something for me. HAHAHA. Well, I had this song in my mind since a long time ago but I haven't had a chance to do something about it.

Hymn to Hope, composed by Secret Garden, a really famous new age artist. I've been in love with these guys and I found a vocal version (in Korean) of that song, sung by Youngok Shin. This song gives you hope, literally. After I translated the lyrics myself to English, I was kind of sad. The song was supposed to be give me hope to live but then I realized that the meaning is too tragic for me.

"난 돌아왔죠.. 세상의 끝에서..." (I'm coming back.. When the world ends..)

"때론 지치고.. 힘들고 서글퍼도..." (Sometimes it's tiring, difficult and troubled..)

It seems like it's about the END. I don't know why but I'm dropping tears when I listening to this song. OK. Back to the story. Then, I asked Evan to draw something from this song. Based on this song. He asked me which part of the lyrics I liked the best. There's this lyric,

"세상의 모든 꿈.." (All the dreams of the world)

This particular part, when I first heard it, I felt.. peace. The dreams of the world? It's so beautiful, isn't it?

And finally, this is what Evan came up with.

He combined it with Japanese art style and also its folklore, Kaguya. I was so surprised when I found out that Kaguya have red black ombré hair!
Looks like the fashion sense of our Papercaptain is finally come out eh?
Well, it's a wraaapp!

To check out more of Evan the Papercaptain's works, click here
and to listen Hymn to Hope vocal version, click here