Citayam Fashion Week – Popular culture among today's teenagers

Hi my friends, welcome back to my blog. I want to share my opinion about something that is trending today, namely Citayam Fashion Week. In the last two weeks, Citayam Fashion Week has always been discussed on social media. At first, I did not know about this trending phenomenon. I only found out when I called my cousin to fix the TV, he said that he couldn't see me because he was at the Sudirman Center. Hang out with the Citayam group. My cousin was so attracted to him that he felt at home for a long time there.

I, who was curious about it, looked for information on the Citayam group. Sudirman Center has become a gathering place for teenagers who express themselves with Fashion. From some of the information I have received, teenagers from Citayam, Depok, and Bogor, came to the Sudirman Center area with quirky but casual clothes like at a fashion show. I think they are very creative in the field of fashion. We can see the way they show their true self honestly through fashion.

Sudirman Center is a business district located in the southern city of Jakarta. There are shopping centres, malls, cafes and others. The place is now enlivened by young men and women called the Citayam Fashion Week community. Every Sunday they gather there, expressing themselves with the various fashions they wear. Not only hanging out but also creating video content such as TikTok and Instagram. Social media has made the Citayam Fashion Week community famous and a hot topic of conversation today.

With the Citayam Fashion Week community, many teenagers there have become famous and earn a lot of money by utilizing social media, especially TikTok and Instagram. From this community, I also learned that fashion is not only synonymous with the upper class, but the lower middle class can also do and express themselves with fashion. The popularity of this community turned out to also reap the pros and cons among the people of Indonesia. Some think that they are creative teenagers who can appreciate themselves through fashion. Others think that they are very tacky, disturbing and making the Sudirman Center area slum.

I support them as free human beings. They can freely express themselves according to what they want to wear. In addition, street vendors in the Sudirman Center area also get more benefits because many teenagers buy their wares. Things like this of course also have a negative impact, namely the number of people who litter in the area. Therefore, the youth of the Citayam Fashion Week community must work together with the local government to provide facilities such as increasing trash cans, free portable toilets, and places for street vendors to sell. In this way, the negative impact can be reduced. I believe the trend of Citayam Fashion Week will give birth to a new fashion culture that has its character like the Harajuku fashion culture in Japan.