Indonesia Fashion Weeks

Welcome to the Indonesia Fashion Week Guide. In this section, the fashion week events that take place in Indonesia are listed: Bali Fashion Week and Jakarta Fashion Week, each linked above with its own full record in this directory.

A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers or fashion houses to display their latest collections. The collections are displayed via runway shows for buyers and the international fashion community to take a look at the latest trends — and Indonesia's two events divide that work between an island trade showcase and a capital-city international week.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from these shows.

Two Events, Two Jobs

Bali Fashion Week is an annual trade event held by the Moda Bali Foundation that combines fashion, art and culture, used as a platform for buyers and sellers to meet and discuss potential business relationships. Bali hosts it because the island is Indonesia's showcase to the international world, full of inspiration and displaying art and traditions from different parts of Indonesia. Jakarta Fashion Week is the capital's version: a Jakarta-based international event in the form of an annual meeting and open trade show presenting a selection of Indonesian fashion and accessories designers to buyers, press and the key roles of the fashion industry.

The pairing is instructive. Bali sells the country's creativity in the place the world already visits; Jakarta sells its industry in the place the country's business is done. Together they give Indonesian designers two different doors to the international market — the cultural showcase and the trade meeting — and this guide keeps both records.

Indonesia in the World Directory

The full country directory linked from the event pages places Indonesia among the fashion week countries of Asia and the world, alongside India, Japan, Hong Kong and China in this part of the guide. For the wider industry, the Indonesia fashion industry pages on this site cover the country's garment trade, one of the largest clothing industries in the region, beyond the runway.

An Archipelago's Two Doors

Indonesia's fashion geography is unlike any other country in this guide: an archipelago whose design traditions vary island by island, with its capital on Java and its international showcase on Bali. The two fashion weeks in this guide map onto that geography exactly. Jakarta gathers the industry — the designers, the buyers, the press — where the country's business institutions are. Bali gathers the story — the art, culture and craft of the islands — where the world's visitors already are.

Designers can use the doors in sequence: a collection developed from an island tradition, presented culturally in Bali, then sold commercially in Jakarta. Few national fashion systems offer both rooms; this guide's Indonesian pages are the record of the two of them.

Using This Guide

Start with the event that matches your purpose. Buyers and sellers working the trade should begin with the event pages' own accounts — Bali for the buyer-seller meeting platform in the island showcase, Jakarta for the capital's annual meeting and open trade show — and follow their links into the Indonesia fashion industry pages for the country's garment trade in full. Readers tracing the region should continue to the India and Japan guides linked above, which record the neighbouring stops of the Asian fashion week circuit in the same format.