Fashion + Creative Director, based in between Bali and Berlin
With over a decade of dynamic experience in the fashion and media industry, Suhadi Budiman has produced a rich spectrum of work which has established themself as a seasoned creative collaborator.
Growing up queer in Indonesia – a modest country crowded with religious communities and influenced by post-colonial beauty standards – suhadi was pushed to find imaginative ways to express themself.
As a form of rebellion, Suhadi used fashion as a creative outlet to release their frustration against the status quo, producing fashion editorial stories as love letters to fellow misfits.
Fed up with the suppressive limitations, suhadi moved to Berlin, Germany, where they discovered newfound freedom in self-expression. There, they discovered new depths and widths of beauty – true diversity. It was a liberating experience seeing people honor each other for their raw energy and authenticity.
This transformative journey led suhadi to create bumi faces, Casting Agency and Talent Scout, a world of faces seen from a new lens, to reimagining beauty standards, to expand our perspective on humanity.