JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com– Event Paris Fashion Week Suddenly, there was a lot of discussion on social media after many Indonesian brands that flocked to Paris were said to have claimed to be part of Paris Fashion Week.
In response to the hectic talk about Paris Fashion Week, Ifan Seventeen as Chairman of Bakominfo Gekraf spoke up.
Ifan also uploaded an Instagram Story from Lucky Heng who spoke loudly about this.
“Why is Paris Fashion Week so crowded? Is it true that Gekraf and the Ministry of Tourism can’t even understand that about this?,” he said in the video. Instagram @ifanseventeen.
Ifan then explained, what is Paris Fashion Week in order to make it easier to explain how many Indonesian brands have this big event.
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“First of all, I want to explain that Paris Fashion Week is an annual event organized by FHCM, so it’s kind of a federation there. This is arguably the biggest fashion event in the world, in fact it almost beats New York Fashion Week,” said Ifan.
“So it’s only natural to say that there are a lot of enthusiast from fashion, fans or fashion observers who departed from all over the world for Paris on March 6th,” he added.
Then Ifan explained the reason why many Indonesian brands that have nothing to do with fashion suddenly mentioned them at Paris Fashion Week.
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“So actually designers and brands that appear at Paris Fashion Week organized by FHCM have many requirements and also curation,” said Ifan.
“Because there are so many enthusiasts and fashion lovers from all over the world who go to Paris to watch, there are so many around the Paris Fashion Week event from FHCM. event-event fashion show too,” he continued.
Therefore, Gekraf and the Ministry of Tourism invited competent brands to go to Paris where they then collaborated with non-design brands.
“And this year, Gekrafs and the Ministry of Tourism invites brand-brand which we think is competent to go there. So brand-brand non-designers can collaborate with designers to be sent there,” said Ifan.
Here, Ifan emphasized that these brands were not at the Paris Fashion Week event held by FHCM.
“But it’s not at the Paris Fashion Week event from FHCM, that’s why we name it Gekrafs Paris Fashion Show during Paris Fashion Week,” he insisted.
“And we have implemented it and we have said it and it has become a SOP for us.” brand-brand and also the designers who participated through Gekrafs,” he continued.
Ifan further explained, the reasons that might have happened until this finally became confusing and caused a commotion.
“Only, in my opinion, maybe what made the miss here, when the brands conveyed it to the KOL-KOL who went there, maybe these things were not emphasized enough,” said Ifan.
“So many people call the activity Paris Fashion Week,” he added.
But once again Ifan emphasized, there is nothing wrong with using the name Paris Fashion Week, it just needs to be emphasized that it is not allowed to include the Paris Fashion Week logo in their activities.
“Is that wrong? The answer is no. Even when naming or mentioning their activities there as Paris Fashion Week, it’s actually okay,” explained Ifan.
“The important thing is not to join the FHCM logo. And this of course one step forward to introduce the Indonesian fashion industry to the world fashion industry,” he continued.
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