Coral Journal is mostly about topics that reflect our community, especially this shared interest in ambiguity within gender norms, because there’s something about when those norms start to blur—it feels like space opens up, and maybe that’s where a different kind of equality begins, and I’ve always been drawn to unlearning the expectations of how each gender is supposed to present, so this journal becomes a collection of that, pulling from music, art, exhibitions, and other cultural movements that resonate with me, sometimes it leans more philosophical, sometimes it’s just something I find interesting and worth noting, but all of this—this ongoing exploration of ambiguity—also shapes the way I think about fashion and how I design, so this is really just a space to follow those thoughts as they evolve, hope you enjoy.
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The story behind the line
Unlearn the Norm is a fashion line that lives in the space between masculine and feminine — drawing on the philosophy of androgyny to challenge the boundaries we are taught to dress within. Rooted in personal experience and shaped by the quiet freedoms and restrictions observed growing up in Indonesia, the line asks a simple question: what happens when we stop dressing for definition and start dressing for ourselves?
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What Plato's Symposium taught me about duality — and dressing.
What if the reason you've always felt drawn to both sides was never confusion — but memory? Plato had an answer for that, and it's stranger and more beautiful than you'd expect.
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A sculpture of a woman — or was it?
In 1920, a single sculpture was pulled from a Paris exhibition not for being violent or obscene — but for refusing to be only one thing. A hundred years later, that same refusal is still the most radical act in the room.
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