
Tren batik didorong berbagai faktor. Salah satunya, peran perancang busana yang memunculkan tren batik. Edward Hutabarat, yang dinilai sebagai pelopor batik ready to wear, tahun 2006 mengeluarkan rancangan model A line, jaket panjang longgar, blus halter neck, jaket begaya kimono, dan celana pendek yang ternyata disambut antusias masyarakat.
Booming batik juga didorong oleh kebijakan pemerintah daerah dan instansi swasta yang mewajibkan pegawainya mengenakan batik sehari dalam sepekan, belum lagi klaim Malaysia atas batik, yang tampaknya meningkatkan minat orang berbatik. Sumber: Kompas, 29 September 2008.
Batik driven trends of various factors. One of them, the role of designer fashion trends that raise the batik. Edward Hutabarat, which was considered as the pioneer ready to wear batik, 2006, issued a draft model A line, loose fitting long jacket, blouse dumbbell Neck, begaya kimono jackets, and short that greeted enthusiastically community. Booming batik is also encouraged by the policies of local goverments and private institutions that require employees put in the day, batik, from yet another claim on the Malaysian batik, which seems to increase the interest of people need to wear batik cloth.
source: Kompas, September 29, 2008