Of Asian origins and being a furor emblem of the hippy outfits From the 1960s, batiks are making a comeback on the sands and the sea. Whether on the sunny beaches of Californiawhere more than 50 years ago they were an obligatory trend, or in the spas overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, in east pointthe sophisticated and detailed style of the fades are present in the season.
“This whole batik trend has been promoting the summer of 2020 in Argentina. In the European summer of 2019, the first batiks began to be glimpsed, to use those garments you had to have a lot of vibes and it was new. Summer 2021 blew up, every brand had to have something batik. In this year, yes or if you have to have some batik garment in your place. It is not just a beach fashion at all, but rather a fashion that lasts all year round. They are artisanal processes, no shirt is the same as the other,” he explains. Martin Maninione of the owners of the clothing brand luxury.
Many celebrities and influencers, including their children, are aware of the colorful psychedelic fashion in various garments. The models Zaira Nara, Dolores Barreiro and Tini Stoessel They bet on the look this summer. The most prominent international brands that added the native Asian style to their catalog were Prada Y Dior, together with the designer stella maccartney. At present, the Indonesian batik technique was inscribed within the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
“These are processes that are carried out on the t-shirts, which are suitable for dyeing or bleaching. Are they black or white shirts and undergo abrasive processes to reach that state. Batik is usually called any dyed shirt. But batik is just one of the processes that can be seen, which is the most common, similar to a stain”, Manini details about the technique of aesthetic production of clothing.
The curious term “batik” is coming from the java island. In the archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, the word means “drop” making reference to the fact that the garments designed by the native islanders had been created with the use of small drops of an artisanal pigmentation compound.
This aesthetic creation can be done by hand, Manini himself explains: “The batik process is to take a shirt, tie it in an elastic with bleach and dye it. There are also very good artisan processes, more concentrated to make different types of halos and stripes, which do they are considered artists. It is a trend that is back to stay”, concludes the reference from the Luxo clothing house.
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