Indonesian Fashion Spot!

Started Fashionese Daily in 2005. She has been blogging since 2000 and was one of the few early players in the Indonesian blogosphere. Has a bachelor degree in Marketing and an MBA. In the past, she worked in retail, both as assistant manager and fashion buyer as well as community relationship manager.  After living in three different countries for the past 12 years she has finally decided to go back to Jakarta in mid 2008. Currently spearheading the Female Daily Network and running Closet Quickies Boutique. Her passion has always been in fashion, especially the business side of it, people, the online world and keeping herself challenged.

Obsessed with makeups, bath and body products as well as perfumes. A cosmetics connoisseur, she’s not just another self-proclaimed beauty junkie as she’s an authority in beauty with experiences in the entertainment industry. Most recently, she was MAC Indonesia’s Public Relations Manager in which she has helped the company grew from its infancy to its current market-leading position. Now, MAC has gained a solid market share, supreme brand awareness and become one of the most dominant beauty global brands in Indonesia. In November 2008, she joined the ranks of professionals around the world who quit their glamorous 9-5 job, and is now focusing on managing Fashionese Daily.

If you ask her to choose either shoes or make up as her weapon, she wouldn’t have the answer as her passion lies in  those two. She goes all out when it comes to dressing up, she even thinks that her mom has forgotten to instill the word ‘practical’ in her dictionary. Her office environment is filled with men and women in matching suits and conservative clothes, but you can spot her easily in her building because of her style, even when there’s a special occasion where she is forced to wear black. This Melbourne graduates also has penchant for coffee, glorious food, desert delicacies and vintage dress. There are times when she feels like shifting career that satisfies her passion but her current job at a Regional Organization has a lot to do with making the world or particularly Indonesia and the neighboring countries a better place, so she is sticking around and relying on FD for her makeup and shoes craving.

dunia_dandan moderates the Makeup and Beauty section. In recent years, she actively volunteered for Aceh’s cause through Mercy Corps Indonesia. She is the author of the book, “Kiamat Sudah Lewat: Suara Anak-anak Korban Tsunami Aceh“. A media industry veteran, she has served at various national medias since 1997 including gigs as Script Writer at RCTI, Lifestyle Editor at Her World magazine and most recently she was the host of Jak TV’s Dunia Dandan Deborah. Residing in Washington DC, she calls Sephora her second home.

A bag addict who joined FD in mid 2007, and joined the FD Forum Team later on. While her professional experience is mainly in the Finance and Risk areas, her newfound obsession in beauty (thanks to FD Makeup class) and her true love in handbags have made her a fit within the Fashionese Daily community. She holds MBA and MSF graduate degrees from Boston College, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lena
Lena considers herself a full-time tourist; her number one passion is traveling and visiting new places. She is also a beauty junkie–on her first visit to Sephora, she spent almost 6 hours in the store. To finance her travels and makeup addiction, she works part-time at a university and does some consulting in the economics field. In about 20 years’ time (hopefully less), you’ll find her managing a small bed & breakfast near the beach somewhere in eastern Indonesia.

Tjejep
Ruth Wijaya a.k.a Tje2p used to study graphic design in college but accidentally worked in textile industry for a good six years. Her last position was head of marketing department. So she is now more familiar with different kinds of fabrics than photoshop features. But recently, she quit her job to focus on her small online shop and join the wonderful girls at Fashionese Daily. On makeup, she proudly calls herself  “banci gonjreng”. Is that enough explanation?

Vanya
She studied Mass Communication at the London School of Public Relations. In Female Daily, she runs the marketing and communications department. Her career has spanned from teaching, event management to managing a public relations department, until she found her true passion – making Female Daily Network as successful as possible. Deep down, her favorite color is pink. But if you ask her, she’ll tell you it is blue, because she thinks pink is “too girly”. Although you will notice that it doesn’t affect her choice of nail polish shades at all because nail polish, along with shoes, is her biggest weakness.

A blog evangelist as we call it, Thomas is one of Indonesia’s most prominent bloggers and is the developer of this award-winning blog. Besides development and support of Fashionese Daily, he blogs regularly at orangescale.net and maintains several other blogs. He lives in Yogyakarta.

A long time globe trotter after spending her childhood in various parts of the world, she finally settled in New York City and has established herself as a handbag designer at Scott Adam Designs after going in and out of the fashion media since 1999, both in Jakarta and New York. DYS has assisted world’s top fashion stylists and photographers in editorials of Teen Vogue, V, Vogue, Hommes & Nippon, and ad campaigns of H&M, Nuala Puma and many more.