A Retro Romance – Groovy Valentine’ Day Ideas in Jakarta
What is the ideal way to celebrate love? The most genuine and unconditional feeling — love, can never be weighed...
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Homegrown Beauty ? A Simple Guide to Indonesian Cosmetic Brands
Often considered as the recession-proof business, the beauty industry attracts both the enthusiast and entrepreneur around the world. There is...
Passion for Beauty and Fashion: Meet Julhenry
Jules Henry, known in the industry as Julhenry, is the CEO and founder of Fauve Agency, a leader in model...
Bali’s Sartorial Species
We all know Bali is full of varied, enchanting natural beauty. Cliffs, forests, lakes and volcanoes adorn this island, showcasing...
The Sun is Shining: Summer 2015 Trends
With the urgency and joie de vivre of a couple in their first throws of passion, fashion’s love affair with...
Tradition, Tears and Tantrums
For forty-five years, the British Women’s Association (BWA) of Jakarta has been offering community support and friendship for UK citizens...
High-energy Fashion is Fighting Fit
Gone are the days when sportswear was for the sole purpose of getting downright sweaty at the gym. It has...
Funking Up My Platforms: The Essential ’70s Style Guide
Listen up, people – get your dancing shoes on and stomp your way into the decade that style almost forgot....
Once Upon a Fashion Trend: the Spring-Summer 2015 Rundown
Victoria Bannerman urges you to get on the trend trail this summer with her foolproof guide to the major trends...
Glorious Indonesia Fashion Week
The curious, the fashionable, the movers and shakers of Jakarta, resplendent in all their finery, turned up in full force...
Tan for All Seasons
A serendipitous discovery flung open the doors to a quaint and exclusive boutique on Abdul Majid Raya in Jakarta. Its...
Animal Magic
In a bygone era, the colonisation of Africa and Asia brought bountiful riches of unimaginable grandeur and beauty to Europeans....
Jakarta’s Fashion Faux Pas
Victoria Bannerman people-watches in malls to bring you the fashion rights and wrongs of Indonesia’s capital city. Being a stylista,...
The Life of Jean
1849 saw the imagination of the populace captured by the California Gold Rush, turning wise men into fools, honest men...
From Bauble to Lace, Make a Statement this Party Season
The party season is upon us and twixt the baubles and lace, there is no better excuse than to go...
Jakarta Fashion Week Raises the Stakes in the Game of Fashion
Dying beautifully and relinquishing, its flame, the embers of Jakarta Fashion Week 2015 (JFW) leave behind memories on a fashion...
Effortless: President Jokowi Shows How to do Dapper
I can’t claim to be an authority on politics and some would say that what I do purport to know...
Green is the New Black
“This is tarum tree, a tree that produces blue colour,” says Made as we wander around the yard of CV...
Silver Solitaire
Jewellery simply doesn’t care whether you are a size zero or size plentiful; it will add to your frippery and...
Aurelia’ Manolin
There is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea. For eighty four days, “old man” Santiago...
Shoe-be-do Heaven
It is official - I am a shoe addict! Four hundred pairs and counting! I don't care much for ?it?...