Residency Program 2026
PINTU Residency Program 2026 - Introduction
PINTU Residency Program returns for another three-month cycle, running from April to June, continuing its commitment to fostering cross-cultural exchange through craft, creativity, and human connection.
This year marks a significant evolution: for the first time, Indonesian designers join French designers as full participants in the residency, creating a more balanced, reciprocal, and deeply meaningful cultural dialogue.
Bringing together four designers, two from Indonesia and two from France, the program unfolds as an immersive journey across Indonesia's living craft landscape. Participants are divided into two creative pairs, each comprising one Indonesian and one French designer. The first group travels to Mojokerto, while the second ventures to Lombok. From the very first day, each pair is encouraged to work as true creative partners, collaborating, listening, and co-creating in equal measure.
In each location, designers engage directly with local artisan communities, studying traditional practices, including batik and weaving, that have been preserved and passed down across generations. These are not simply techniques to be observed. They are living traditions to be understood, respected, and thoughtfully integrated into a shared creative vision.
Built on the belief that meaningful design emerges from meaningful exchange, PINTU Residency places designers from different cultural backgrounds in direct dialogue, with each other, and with the communities that inspire them. Through a process of learning, collaboration, and co-creation, each pair will develop a collaborative collection: a unified body of work that honors both cultural identities, while resonating with a global audience.
French Residents
Indonesian Residents
LISA RAYAR
Lisa Rayar is a Paris-based fashion designer with a multidisciplinary arts education from Ecole de Condé in Lyon, IICC Fashion in Marseille, and LISAA Fashion in Paris, where she completed a Master's Degree in Fashion Design and Brand Creation specializing in art direction, collection design, brand strategy, and eco-design. Her work centers on women's ready-to-wear: bold-volume silhouettes with intricate technical construction, crafted from deadstock and organic textiles and finished through manual dyeing and hand-knitting techniques that produce entirely singular textures. The result is garments often described as wearable art, drawing inspiration from nature and structural forms, where craft and concept are inseparable. Lisa's cultural value lies in her conviction that luxury does not require waste. Through rigorous textile research, local production, and the creative reuse of deadstock materials, she demonstrates that ethical fashion and creative excellence are natural partners. Her professional foundation spans several distinct fashion houses, including Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Soeur, Uniqlo, Calishi, and Amore Mimmo, giving her fluency across women's ready-to-wear, pattern-making, and sustainable production systems. She has also achieved recognition in multiple competitions, including publications in the magazine Tout'Ma, first prize in the Uniqlo competition in 2022, participation in the Degermann and Negresco fashion shows, and third place in the "New Icons" contest.
E-mail: [email protected]
Instagram: instagram.com/lisarayar.studio
WhatsApp: +33695502231
MICKAËL NANA
Mickaël Nana is a Paris-based womenswear and menswear fashion designer, holder of a Bachelor's degree from École Duperré and a Master's degree in Fashion and Materials jointly delivered by Université Paris Dauphine and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, and the founder of MARLON NANA, a label built at the intersection of fashion, craftsmanship, and speculative futures. The brand produces narrative-driven ready-to-wear for men and women: luxury tailoring with experimental volumes, rendered through deep technical mastery in pattern-making, draping, knitwear development, and garment construction. Its debut collection, Perseverance, named after the NASA rover sent to Mars in 2020, presents six looks imagining the first civilization on Mars, fusing sportswear, tailoring, and West African style codes into a single, coherent world. This is the brand's cultural proposition: treating Afro-diasporic heritage not as a reference but as a structural and narrative foundation, reinterpreted through the lens of surrealism, science fiction, and Western tailoring codes. MARLON NANA extends beyond garments into objects, music, and audiovisual production, all unified by an aesthetic that positions sub-Saharan African cultures within a speculative, forward-looking imagination. A graduate prize winner of the LVMH Prize 2024, Mickaël joined the studio of Dior Homme for one year, further grounding his practice in the highest tier of luxury craftsmanship. His professional experience spans Christian Dior Couture (Junior and Assistant Designer, Men's Ready-to-Wear), Koché, and IKKS Women.
E-mail: [email protected]
Instagram: instagram.com/marl.on.fire
WhatsApp: +33788543043
BEATRICE ANGELICA
Beatrice Angelica is a Jakarta-based fashion designer and graduate of ESMOD Jakarta's Fashion Design and Creation program, specializing in urban and tailored menswear with a versatile foundation across womenswear and kidswear. Her technical practice spans pattern-making, garment construction, and textile experimentation, including macramé, knitting, weaving, shibori, and natural plant dyeing, with Tenun as her central cultural focus: a craft she approaches not as heritage to replicate, but as living textile language to bring into dialogue with contemporary urban silhouettes. Her sustainability sensibility is embedded in her method of slow, handcraft-intensive processes and natural plant dyeing that prioritize intention over volume. Academically, she received the Coup De Cœur Du Jury (Grand Jury Award) at ESMOD Jakarta Creative Show 2025, alongside Best Student twice, Best Fashion Design in Menswear, and over ten competition wins. Her graduate collection was featured in independent lifestyle media, and a capsule collaboration collection project with a brand was later showcased at an international fashion fair in Hong Kong, where she sold her designs to international clients. Professionally, she has trained at Jan Sober and Maison Met, and currently works with Yogie Pratama as part of the fashion illustrator design team, with international exposure including collaborative events with The Clique Hong Kong during her time at Maison Met and client fittings in Qatar. She aspires to build an international fashion brand that bridges cultures, craftsmanship, and modern design.
E-mail: [email protected]
Instagram: instagram.com/beatrice.angelica
WhatsApp: +6281907710727
GABRIEL MARCELLA BUDIONO
Gabriel Marcella Budiono is a 2023 graduate of ESMOD Jakarta's International Diploma of Fashion Design and Creation, with a practice rooted at the intersection of traditional Indonesian craft and contemporary design. Her technical foundation spans flat and draping pattern-making for womenswear and menswear, tech-pack detailing, batik, fabric handprinting, and embellishment work, complemented by professional experience as assistant designer at House of Pinky, fitter and representative at Semarang Fashion Trend, Spotlight IFC (Indonesia Fashion Chamber), and ANFA (Asia NewGen Fashion Award) 2023 Semi-Final. Batik sits at the core of her creative identity, not as a reproduction, but as a living craft to be reinterpreted through new surfaces, unconventional placements, and unexpected materials. Her final college project made this conviction tangible: hand-drawing an entire batik motif onto sheer black organza with silver glittery ink, transforming the meditative intimacy of the canting process into a contemporary design statement. Her sustainability value lies in batik's inherently slow, a practice that resists mass production by nature, centering the artisan's hand as irreplaceable. She aspires to build a globally minded design practice that honors Indonesian craft heritage through creative reinvention.
E-mail: [email protected]
Instagram: instagram.com/
WhatsApp: +6281901891210