FROM ASPHALT TO ATELIER: BURGO INDONESIA'S FPRENEUR DESIGNERS TAKE THE RUNWAY AT FASHION NATION 2026

Sep 16

JAKARTA, Indonesia, September 16, 2026. Istituto di Moda Burgo Indonesia, the Jakarta campus of Istituto di Moda Burgo Milan, will present STREETÈ: From Asphalt to Atelier, the runway debut of five designers from its Fashion Entrepreneur (FPreneur) program, at Fashion Nation 2026, held at Senayan City on Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM WIB. Staged in collaboration with the Indonesian Fashion Chamber (IFC), the presentation features ten looks conceived, constructed, and styled entirely by the five FPreneur designers.

The presentation marks Burgo Indonesia's first runway appearance at Fashion Nation, and doubles as the runway debut for this year's FPreneur cohort. Every garment on the runway was developed over the course of the program's six-month Fashion Entrepreneur curriculum, from concept and first sketches in January, through fittings, a professional photoshoot, and a Punto Finale capstone in June, ahead of the designers' final exam in July. STREETÈ is where that work meets its first public audience.

A CLASSROOM STORY, TOLD ON A RUNWAY

STREETÈ takes its title seriously. Every designer in the lineup grew up navigating Jakarta's own street style, thrifted layers, borrowed jackets, mismatched accessories, long before setting foot in a pattern-making class. The show's premise is that this instinct is not something to be trained out of a young designer, but the raw material a real design education should be built on.

That premise shapes how Burgo teaches. Classes are capped at eight students per instructor, sessions run in real hands-on blocks rather than lecture halls, and the curriculum, spanning Fashion Design, Pattern Making, Dress Making, Digital Fashion, Fashion with AI, and CLO 3D, is built to move a student from an idea on paper to a finished, wearable garment, and eventually to a real label. For this year's cohort, that journey has a name: FPreneur.

THREE YEARS, THREE VALUES

FPreneur sits inside a larger philosophy that runs through every year of a Burgo education. According to Ms. Jenny, Founder and CEO of Istituto di Moda Burgo Indonesia, each of the school's three years is built around a different value. The first year is about craftsmanship, a Spirit of Excellence. The second turns inward, helping students find their own design DNA, on the belief that, as Ms. Jenny puts it, “nobody can beat you at being you.” The third year, the year FPreneur belongs to, is about living life with purpose, “leveraging their talent so they can bring an impact to others.”

That progression serves Burgo's wider mission of Indonesian Fashion Freedom, achieved by training designers to become cultural leaders, people who do not just follow fashion but lead it. As creators, Ms. Jenny notes, designers give identity to everything they make, which means they first need to be clear on who they are, who they are designing for, and aware of the impact they can bring, before they can lead anyone else.

WHAT IS FPRENEUR

Istituto di Moda Burgo Indonesia's Fashion Entrepreneur program, known internally as FPreneur, is the school's third-year capstone, the point where a designer's collection becomes a real, functioning label. Cohort members build their brand identity and DNA, study the fashion industry system, and develop their own logo, tagline, and packaging, alongside legal literacy and a close look at fashion designer identity itself, the idea that a designer must know who they are before they can give identity to what they create. From there, the program moves into concept development and targetmarket research, trend analysis, and decisions around production and manufacturing, a full business plan covering funding, management, and business SOPs, and, new this year, one-on-one coaching with the Vanaya Coaching Institute to define each designer's personal DNA, vision, values, and mission. Later modules cover sustainability, technical packs and costing, fashion journalism, communication, and PR, marketing, and, also new this year, a buyer's perspective module developed with Pilar, so designers weigh how a collection will actually be bought before they finish it. The program closes with financial projections, pricing and cost management strategy, a professional photoshoot, and Fashion Nation itself, which doubles as the cohort's final hands-on assignment: producing a runway presentation as a team, from styling and backstage organization to the marketing campaign behind their own show.

The cohort learns directly from working professionals across the industry. Mentors this year include Jonathan O'Garr, a UK-based fashion consultant who also teaches at Kingston University, Lenny Tedja and her Pilar – team, Deden Siswanto, Taruna Kusmayadi, Dina Midiani, Amot Syamsuri Muda among other industry practitioners. STREETÈ marks the runway debut of the five designers behind this year's FPreneur cohort: Angela Bernice Christian (Bereníkē), Jasmine Nabila, Nadine Emmanuel, Safira Nafiis (Sa Vire), and Samantha Kessler (Chimera).

THE CONCEPT: THREE REFERENCES, ONE CONTINUOUS SEQUENCE

STREETÈ draws on three creative references, CORTIS for cool, unapologetic street individuality, Step Up for high-energy movement and confidence, and The Devil Wears Prada for editorial power and polish. Rather than sequencing these into separate acts, the presentation folds all three into every one of its ten looks: heavy layering and statement accessories carry the street-level cool, cuts and proportions built to move carry the energy, and sharp tailoring and finish carry the polish, all in the same garment, on the same runway. With Fashion Nation's own program running tight, STREETÈ plays as one continuous sequence, no pause, no segment break, over in about five minutes.

The choreography reflects that same compression. Partway through, several models break formation into a short, synced movement before returning to the runway line, and the sequence closes in silence, the music cutting out entirely in the seconds before the final model appears.

THE DESIGNERS

Five designers, this year's FPreneur cohort, built STREETÈ's ten looks between them, each bringing a distinct point of view shaped inside Burgo's studio floor.

Angela Bernice Christian, Bereníkē

Angela Bernice Christian designs at the space between vulnerability and strength, exploring identity, emotion, and self-expression through her label, Bereníkē. Her work celebrates quiet confidence and unapologetic individuality, for those who find power in their own authenticity. “For Angela,” her designer statement reads, “fashion is not about becoming someone else, it is about returning to yourself.”

Jasmine Nabila

Born in South Jakarta and raised in Depok, Jasmine Nabila's path into fashion started small, selling handmade scrunchies during junior high school. That early hustle grew into formal training at Juliana Jaya before she joined Istituto di Moda Burgo Indonesia in September 2022, where she has spent three years developing her skills in pattern making, garment construction, and creative design.

Nadine Emmanuel

Nadine Emmanuel joined Burgo in May 2025 and has quickly built a practice around contemporary silhouettes, developed through thoughtful styling, experimentation, and detailed construction. Her approach pairs strong visual concepts with practical design development, aiming for pieces that communicate personality while staying true to how people actually dress today.

Safira Nafiis, Sa Vire

A concept-driven designer, Safira Nafiis translates abstract ideas and emotions into intentional silhouettes, details, and visual narratives through her label, Sa Vire. Her process balances structure with fluidity, valuing meaning, craftsmanship, and quiet sophistication over spectacle, aiming for designs that feel distinctive without losing purpose.

Samantha Kessler, Chimera

Samantha Kessler designs in direct response to an increasingly artificial digital landscape, using her label, Chimera, to highlight the beauty of human creation. “In this digital landscape where even art has become numeric algorithms,” she writes in her designer statement, “I want to once again represent the anchor of art and where it stems from.”

A COLLABORATIVE STUDIO, NOT FIVE SEPARATE BRANDS

None of the five designers built their looks in isolation. Several pieces on the runway pair a bustier by one designer with a skirt by another, or a fully original build styled alongside a credited borrowed piece from fellow burgonians, a working method that mirrors how collections actually come together inside a shared studio: trading pieces, styling each other's work, and pulling from a communal wardrobe when a look calls for it. STREETÈ presents that process as a strength rather than something to smooth over, the show is a genuinely collective effort, credited look by look. The five FPreneur designers were joined on the production itself by fellow Burgo student designers Izzat Aulia, Celine Hosea, Latifa Tanbay, and Samantha Shenny, part of the same hands-on team effort the program is built around.

“What we will see at Fashion Nation is the result of these designers and their journey through Fashion Entrepreneur,” said Ms. Jenny Yohana Kansil, Founder and CEO of Istituto di Moda Burgo Indonesia. “Fashion Entrepreneur really prepares them for how to be a real fashion designer in the fashion industry, from brand identity and legal literacy, all the way to financial projections and producing this very runway.”

ABOUT ISTITUTO DI MODA BURGO INDONESIA

Istituto di Moda Burgo Indonesia is the Jakarta campus of Istituto di Moda Burgo Milan, founded in 1961. Based on the 45th floor of The Plaza Office Tower in Central Jakarta, the school offers programs in Fashion Design, Pattern Making, Dress Making, Digital Fashion, Fashion with AI, and CLO 3D, across Diploma, Master Course, and Special Course tracks. Its personalized learning model caps each class at a maximum of eight students per instructor, built around flexible intake and real, hands-on garment making, in service of the school's wider mission, Indonesian Fashion Freedom, training designers to become cultural leaders in Indonesia's fashion industry. STREETÈ is the latest public result of that model.

ABOUT THE INDONESIAN FASHION CHAMBER (IFC)

The Indonesian Fashion Chamber (IFC) is a non-profit organization founded in 2015, representing professional fashion designers across Indonesia. Guided by the philosophy of Local Inspiration with Contemporary Spirit, IFC works alongside government bodies, business entities, educational institutions, and fashion communities to develop Indonesia's fashion industry, through programs including Jakarta Muslim Fashion Week (JMFW), IN2MOTIONFEST, and Front Row Paris.

ABOUT FASHION NATION AT SENAYAN CITY

Fashion Nation is Senayan City's annual fashion week, a multi-day program of runway presentations, cultural showcases, and designer collaborations staged across the mall's Main Atrium and Promenade. Now in its second decade, Fashion Nation has grown into a fixture of Jakarta's fashion calendar, bringing together established names and emerging talent.

Written by Alfie Falentino, Business Development Director, Istituto di Moda Burgo Indonesia

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