Venezia Lowis

Creative Director and Fashion Designer of Kurawa

Venezia was born in Cilacap, Central Java, whose parents originated from Aceh and Palembang. She has spent her babyhood in Indramayu, West Java. Starting kindergarten, she moved to a village in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, there she became the only different ethnic family living in harmony without racism. Young Venezia grew up without complacent of any fairytales, she just found her interest when her father told how he kept a baby crocodile in Jambi, how terrifying the forest he worked, and how tigers slept around where he stayed. Starting elementary school, Venezia lived with 2 fighting cocks and various kinds of 9 birds in Tangerang, Banten. Four years later, Venezia moved to suburb, West Jakarta until now. But sometimes, Venezia takes a walk along the chili, tomato, and mustard fields which are not far from her father’s small forest in Puncak. Nature, wildlife, and animals have important place in Venezia’s heart. She even has daydreams to sketch batik collection in a wooden house in the middle of forest accompanying by the sound of singing birds. Why batik? Because for her, simple natural life is just like a floral motif on cotton batik cloth...