Malaysian Fashion Designer

Today was a pleasant surprise. I was at one of my friend's (a fashion designer) boutique.

There was a customer there, who talked to me. She was saying that she wanted to get a list of Malaysian fashion designers - who specializes in batik, but couldn't find any catalogue of such.

I sincerely mentioned to her about the Batik Inspirations book, which has the addresses of some of the most well known fashion designers who incorporates with batik pattern/ batik design in their works.

She immediately took upon the book, and was very happy with her purchase as it showed the fashion spread by Malaysian top names with inspiration from the bold, beautiful batik colours.. All these with the complete list - address and contact of Malaysian fashion designers, some award winning and some members of Malaysian Official Designer's Association.

This was further enhanced by the employee of my friend who mentioned that the book is sufficient for all information she needs as its a compilation of Malaysian haute couture designers. What a compliment! :)

2 Beautiful Covers

Recently, Ive passed the cover of the 2 books to a few friends and associates. Many who saw the new cover immediately liked the new cover and are very impressed - which Im really proud :)

Some like both covers just as much - to them both are beautiful in their own way. They mentioned the International Edition Cover is very bold and daring and represent an Art book, while the Malaysian Edition is more subtle but still unique on its own - together with a nice combination of colours & represents Malaysia.

There are also quite a handful who says that if they really had to choose one, they would still go ahead with the first original cover.

All I can say is that, Im proud to have 2 versions out now - which both are adored :)

Special Malaysian Edition

Malaysia's Living Heritage - Batik Inspirations: Editions BLUE

That's the title for the Special Malaysian Edition that I plan to release come early April.

We are most honoured that for this edition, we've gotten messages by some prominent Malaysian Ministers.

This is the edition that we really dedicate to Malaysians for their strong support for the book. Hence, we've specially designed the book for my home country - especially the cover where it's 'wrapped' in traditional batik cloth. The 2 butterflies are chosen as they are normally associated with Batik Malaysia, but more importantly because this also reflects the spirit of 'Malaysia Boleh' (Malaysia Can) :)

Watch this space for picture and release - wow, are we excited! :)

Review by KLue Magazine

We've been rather busy, and it's this Chinese New Year that I'm back in hometown, Malacca... and have had the time to get hold of the KLue's Magazine which featured our book in their November issue :)

MPH Quill Reviews

Here are 2 articles from MPH Quill (Jan-March 2007 Issue), Malaysia's premier bookstore's magazine. The articles is with regards to the the event we co-organised with them in October 2006. Such lovely memories :)