Behind The Scene: April

April hampir berakhir. Sebelum berakhir, mari kita me review pemotretan Dila&Zata untuk April ini. Pemotretan kali ini sungguh spesial. Karena apa? Let's check it out this feature :)

Awal April saya sengaja kembali ke Jogja untuk sesi foto Dila&Zata April Collection. Walau hanya weekend saja, kesempatan ini tidak boleh disia-siakan. Kami punya banyak sekali stuff yang harus dibagi-bagi untuk kalian semua ;) Diantaranya, oleh-oleh dari Singapore, Stripe Collection yang sebagian kami desain, dan sebagian Koleksi We Love Batik. Yap, semuanya menumpuk teman-temaaan. Jadi, saya dan Zata harus mengejar ketinggalan. Ini salah satu yang menjadikan sesi foto April spesial hehe (biasanya kami mengadakan sesi foto setiap satu koleksi baru).

Dibantu Yuyun Widanarti, sahabat dan model kami tercinta, pemotretan berjalan dengan sangat sangat menyenangkan. Kami sudah siap di lokasi, Gedung MM UGM jam 08.00 pagi dan mulai melakukan persiapan. Seperti biasa, Zata mengeluarkan senjata make up kit nya dan mulai memoleskan make up di muka saya dan Yuyun dengan lihai. Berganti-gantian, bersama-sama kami difoto. Kami saling mendandani dan merapikan. Kami bertiga saling mengarahkan gaya. Aduh, saya jadi berasa stylish profesional *ngarep dot com. Namun, tak jarang juga kami mengurusi look kami sendiri karena satu sama lain sibuk dengan look masing-masing. Sepertinya kami butuh model tambahan nih, anyone?

Yuyun, Dila, Zata, robotic style :p

Kami juga dibantu oleh fotografer baru kami, Kresno Bajus Saputra. Pemotretan kali ini yang sungguh banyak terasa lebih ringan dengan fotografer handal kali ini. Seperti biasa, kami gadis-gadis centil ini terlalu banyak permintaan, hehe. Tapi, alhamdulillah Bajus, teman kami semasa kuliah di Komunikasi UGM mampu memuaskan hasrat berekspresi kami semaksimal mungkin hihihi. Atau mungkin sebenarnya doi udah bete tapi ngga berani bilang ya? Haha, semoga tidak ;). Bajuz membantu kami mengarahkan gaya. Tidak perlu jaim dengannya, orang ini amat sangat easy going dan berdedikasi. Jadi, kami juga merasa nyaman difoto-foto olehnya. Suasana pemotretan jadi makin ceria. *Bajus, diskon lagi lo ya pemotretan selanjutnya, ini udah kubaik-baikin hahaha. Tapi bener deh, had a great work with him . Mudah-mudahan bisa bantu lagi di sesi foto selanjutnyaaaa ya.

Tak terasa, sore mulai menjelang. Kami mengakhiri pemotretan pada 15.00 setelah diselingi oleh isoma hihihi.

Batwing 'temuan' dari Bugis St, Singapore

LBD Style by Dila and Zata

Eits, jangan anggap sesi foto April sudah tamat yaaa. Pertengahan April, Zata mengadakan sesi foto lagi dengan sisa koleksi batik fresh from the oven ;). Yap, kami memang mendesain sendiri koleksi batik April ini. Seperti biasa, desain-desain cantik ini kami kerjakan di workshop Dila&Zata di penjahit Peni (milik orang tua saya dan Mbak Mala, hihihi, namanya juga usaha). Sebagian memang baru selesai pertengahan April. Jadi, begitu selesai jahit, langsung tancap gas pemotretan lagiiii ;). Kali ini saya tidak bisa hadir. Tapi, melihat hasilnya, saya kirimkan salam jempol dan kecup sayang untuk sahabat saya, Zata dan fotografer kami Bajus. Me love all the photos very much. Mereka berdua melakukan sesi foto di kawasan Makam Kerajaan Mataram yang eksotis, di Kotagedhe. Oh ya, Zata juga foto beberapa tutorial hijab yang sudah ditunggu-tunggu di April ini dan sudah diposting di sini dan di sini ;). Great job, I like it :*

LATIKA batik maxi and KALYANI batik maxi

SUNILA cropped blazer and SAVITA jacket

LALANA wrap skirt, blue and red

Yap, semua hasil sesi foto sudah kami publish di fan page FB dan toko online kami, semua untuk kamu chic hijabers ;) Sekarang, tinggal saya, Zata, dan Mbak Mala yang berasyik-asyik ria di balik layar untuk mengurus pesanan kamu, cihuuuy!

Semoga April ini membawa banyak inspirasi untuk semua ya.

Let’s work hard play hard Zata and Mbak Mala.

And, for you dear chic hijabers, let’s get more and more inspiration to be a better hijabers ;*

Last but not least, for nice pic, just call Bajus at 08562616158 or chat via Ym! Juzy_blacklist ;)

Love,

Dila

Fun Day at 'The Office'

When I was 23, I was a 'desperate housewife' with 2-year-old kid, struggling to finish my study at Uni.

Dila and Zata are two lucky girls. In their early twenty, they'd already started their own business, make money and have fun.

Well, it's not always fun day at 'the office'. Sometimes Zata juggles her busy Uni schedule (she's in her last semester at Uni) with her task to satisfy customers. Dila spends almost every weekend in the trains, back and forth Jakarta-Jogja.

Running business from three different cities can be a bit tricky. Thanks to technologies, we are armed with two wonderful BBs in Jogja and Jakarta and a beautiful mac with high speed internet connection in Sydney. With that, 4 hours time different between Sydney and Jakarta/Jogja is no problem at all.


Apart from that, the three of us agree that the funnest day at the office would be the Photo Session day. This is the day we can't hardly wait. Dila secretly admits that being a model is her childhood dream. Suddenly I remember rows of trophies we had at our parent's home, from her early modeling days. *chuckle*


We schedule two photo sessions per month as we launch two collections per month. Sometimes it's behind schedule, due to Dila's busy day at Jakarta. But most of the time, Zata, our wonderful girl, designer and stylist at Dila&Zata Shop can make it. Zata is smart enough to 'recruit' her BFF, Yuyun and also our 'lucky' customers, Nadia and Amha when Dila is not available.


Nervous enough, Dila and Zata managed to do their first photo session at the convenience of Dila's (parents) home at Salam. I had already order them to take some Behind The Scene shoots but yeah, forgave that nervousness. The result is amazing. No nervousness or awkward pose whatsoever. They are just fabulous. You can see the photos of first session here.


Three other photo sessions held in various location in exotic Jogja: Tamansari (The Water Castle), Vredeburg Fort and Kotagedhe.

Formerly Tamansari was a recreation garden or a resting house for the Sultan and Family. Now it's almost like a ruin (even worse after 2006 earthquake). But you can still see the beauty of this retreat complex. Beside as tourist spot, Tamansari is also a favorite spot among (newbie) photographers. Having photo session in here, photographer is spoiled by so many natural background choices, opportunities to do framing with those beautiful arch and tunnels.

Here are the girls at Tamansari. Too bad Dila couldn't make it.

You can see full photos at Tamansari here.


Early this month, we did photo session at Vredeburg Fort. The location suited our theme well for February. We launched "Sweet February" with lots of soft colour like pink and pastel. That day, Dila's boyfriend was there with special task: to handle our gas balloons as props :) Our photographer is Dara, Zata's little sister who is very talented in doing model photography. She could shoot from extraordinary angles and present us with lovely pictures, here.

 The balloons' boy

 Dara took what necessary to get beautiful shot

 Zata, Yuyun, Dila and Dara

Just two days ago, Zata went duet with her sister (again) to do a photo session for our latest collection: Imported Floral Maxi Dresses. They both head to Kotagedhe, just a quick stroll from their home. Kotagedhe is an ancient city, formerly the capital of Islamic Mataram Kingdom in Java. This old city complex has beautiful narrow lane ways, traditional Javanese house, old cemetery, old mosque etc. Dara did amazing job here. She put a contrast between old house, broken door, exposed brick and the beautiful Zata in our maxis. 

 Zata strolls Kotagedhe tiny lane way

 Beautiful girl gets ready

 And look at this, my favorite pic: Zata looks stunning in front of that ugly community board

You can see the full picture of our latest collection here.


Next month, Dila and Zata will fly to Singapore to do some shopping and (of course) their personal photo session.


Oh, my, I dream of joining them.


Love from Sydney,
xoxo


Mala.