December 2025
Peggy Hartanto, JOS Mundo, Bowy by Meraki Bowy, Oabo x Flaws, and more
This month, designers across Southeast Asia are exploring a balance of craft and playfulness. In Indonesia, Peggy Hartanto translates the magic of ‘Wicked: For Good’ into the brand’s signature clean tailoring and playful detailing. Manila’s JOS Mundo showcases handcrafted footwear at its Holiday Showroom, while Meraki Bowy debuts Bowy, a menswear-forward line rooted in texture and relaxed tailoring. In Thailand, Oabo collaborates with Flaws on sculptural accessories designed to be styled in multiple ways, while Vietnam’s Saommai Homme presents its FW25 collection, offering practical pieces for a stylish everyday wardrobe.
‘Through the Grapevine’ is a monthly round-up of fashion events across Southeast Asia, from collection launches to exhibitions, showcases, pop-ups, and more.
Indonesia
Peggy Hartanto x Wicked Collection. Images taken from Peggy Hartanto’s website.
Peggy Hartanto
‘Wicked: For Good’ Collection
Known for its clean lines and contemporary femininity, Peggy Hartanto brings a lighter, more playful touch to its collection for ‘Wicked: For Good’. The collection translates the story’s themes through the brand’s familiar design language: scalloped detailing, crisp tailoring, clean lines and bold colours. While the pieces carry subtle nods to the narrative, they remain rooted in wearability, offering a mix of sculpted statement looks and everyday silhouettes designed to slip easily into a modern wardrobe.
Manila
JOS Mundo’s Holiday 2025 Campaign. Images taken from @jos.mundo on Instagram.
JOS Mundo
Holiday 2025 Showroom Week
28 November to 14 December
JOS Apartment, Manila
Based in Manila, JOS Mundo is a contemporary fashion and footwear label rooted in Filipino craftsmanship and slow, intentional design. The brand often reimagines archival silhouettes and everyday essentials using locally sourced and deadstock materials, with all its shoes produced in Marikina, the Philippines’ historic shoemaking hub. This season, JOS Mundo is hosting a Holiday Showroom until 14 December, showcasing its newest footwear pieces. They are fresh interpretations of signature styles that embody the brand’s playful and tropical sensibility.
For more information, head over to @jos.mundo.
Bowy by Meraki Bowy
Menswear Label Launch
13 to 14 December
Salo Salo Pop-up, A.bode Space, Manila
Meraki Bowy has built its identity around softly romantic silhouettes and an instinctive, unpolished elegance that feels both modern and nostalgic. Expanding on this approach, the brand is introducing Bowy, a menswear-first label that translates Meraki Bowy’s textured, craft-driven aesthetic into relaxed tailoring and easy silhouettes. Bowy is set to debut at the Salo Salo pop-up on 13 to 14 December, marking the brand’s first foray into menswear and introducing an expansion of its evolving creative direction.
Thailand
Oabo x Flaws: Fruitball Strings. Image taken from @oabo.creators on Instagram.
Oabo x Flaws
‘Fruitball Strings’ Launch
Oabo has teamed up with Flaws on a collaborative collection that melds both brands’ experimental, handmade sensibilities. ‘Fruitball Strings’ reimagines wooden accessories as playful, wearable sculptures, exploring volume, fruit-inspired colour, and materiality. Designed with versatility in mind, each piece can be styled as part of Oabo’s bean bag or worn on its own as a necklace, belt, or keychain, inviting users to treat accessories as objects of both function and imaginative expression.
Saommai Home’s Fall/Winter 2025 Collection. Images taken from @saomaihomme on Instagram.
Saommai Homme
Fall/Winter 2025 Collection
Saommai Homme is a Vietnamese menswear label that approaches everyday dressing with a measured, utilitarian sensibility. Working across jackets, trousers and shirting, the brand prioritises clean construction, proportions and fabrics that lend weight and structure to otherwise understated silhouettes. Their FW25 collection builds on this steady, functional approach with a concise edit of everyday pieces, featuring structured outerwear, relaxed shirting and heavier-weight trousers rendered in the same muted palette and construction that anchor the label’s point of view.