Tatiana has participated in Russian Fashion Week for the last three years and her design studio at Smolenskaya has a uniform division which creates corporate uniforms for Tyrolean beerhouse waitresses and Marlboro promotion teams.

Singer Dima Bilan, winner of last year’s Eurovision song contest, actress Irina Berzukova and women’s boxing champion Natalya Rogozina all wear Sudaryanto creations.

Dolce, Time Out, OK and Grazia are among the many magazines that have turned the Sudaryanto brand into a Russian fashion icon.

Her studio web site, http://www.sudaryanto.ru says the personal way of Tatiana Sudaryanto is “truthful and free but (forged in) steel”.

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Her 2009 spring/summer collection is already a success with customers. The light filmy fabrics with delicate printed patterns are reminiscent of modern Indonesian fabric designs and the Studio’s lead designer readily claims Bali as her spiritual home. “That’s the place where I feel myself balanced, calmed down and inspired. I derive my energy from there”.

Tatiana wanted to be a designer from her childhood. “I enjoyed designing dresses for my dolls. Later on, I used to make dresses for myself and my friends. In that way, I started to tailor clothes much earlier, and then I have started to study the trade”

She may have decided her chosen career in Grade 4 but she started professionally 15 years ago working in the Grekoff fashion house, at that time one of Russia’s leading designers, where she mastered the ground rules of the profession. Over five years with Grekoff saw her progress from designer-constructor to stylist.

“It was good and a difficult school, but I have learned a lot of important lessons and I got invaluable experience there. All that helped in my own ‘running voyage’.” She told BSR Magazine.

“Every year I go to Indonesia for one month, for sure. I go to Yava, to see my big Indonesian family, and certainly I go to Bali, for the inspiration and the relaxation of my mind and soul,” she says.

“When I get to the airport of Denpasar, the air tells me that I’m home. The mix of spices, cloves, warm and humid air, of sun warmed leaves on the trees – I love that aroma…Boundless rice fields and green jungles of Ubud, inflow and low tides of Nusa Dua, high waves and glass calm of Legian sand, carved stone temples of Tanah Lot –that’s the pictures I try to recall if I need to relax, draw sketches or simply to improve my mood.

“The main achievement for me – is the possibility and that level of freedom, which allows me to be engaged in the creative work in a company with very talented and interesting people. Through the years of working together, we have become one team, one family – soul mates.

What gives you the greatest pleasure?

“It brings me a lot of pleasure to see my work on people. That’s why my ambitions are very simple: I’d like to meet people on the streets in different cities wearing clothes from my collections more often”.

John Bonar