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Coworking fashion studio offers creative space for aspiring designers
Coworking fashion studios like Kampung Mode could provide a fully equipped creative space for budding designers and drive growth in the local industry.
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'Localizing' creativity: Visitors browse clothing over the weekend at Kampung Mode, a coworking fashion studio in Ciputat, South Tangerang. Relatively new to the country, such coworking sewing spaces could help nurture young Indonesian designers and drive growth in the Indonesian fashion industry.. (JP/Aditya Bagas Wicaksono)
H
ayuning “Adra” Sumbadra realizes that growing up in a family that supported her dreams of becoming a fashion designer was a privilege that not all aspiring young fashion designers had.
When Adra was a teenager exploring her talents in designing clothes, her parents cleared a space on the second floor of their house in Ciputat, South Tangerang, to create a "studio" for her.
She even had a 6-square-meter cutting table, said Adra. A cutting table was one of the most important pieces of equipment for a fashion designer, but budding designers rarely had one.
“I remember that my college friends were willing to travel dozens of kilometers to my house to use the table," recalled the 22-year-old. "Lately, I started thinking, why don’t I share [the table] with more people?”
This idea led her to open her home studio as Kampung Mode, a coworking place for fashion designers. Dubbed a "one-stop space for creating fashion", she claimed it was the first of its kind in Greater Jakarta.
Deskmag, an online magazine that focuses on new ways of working and coworking spaces, calls places like Kampung Mode a "co-sewing space". Such facilities have been cropping up in countries like Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Several coworking spaces in Jakarta also offer facilities that could be suited to the needs of fashion designers.
