Do You Agree With Dzireena Mahadzir? We Do.
Dzireena Mahadzir writes a column called Sense of Style for The Star, and last Sunday, she questioned why Malaysia doesn't have a body that coordinates fashion events. Some quotes from her article:
"For some strange reason, everyone decided to schedule ALL their events the moment fasting month ended. One of my best friends said she hasn’t slept since October, and that goes for me too. Another friend was saying that sleep has become such a luxury. I don’t know how socialites do this, but I’m exhausted."
She's absolutely right. Fasting month is like 'rest period' for us. And the moment Hari Raya is over, BOOM, there are fashion events clashing atop one another to the point we schedule the nights by hour. MIFW last week really took its toll on TiC and I'm really sorry posts having been going up to cover everything as in depth as we planned to. We've slowly been having a "(wo)man down" situation with everyone getting sick one after the other.
"We should have a proper KL Fashion week, not several different fashion events rotating the same designers, same collections and handing out self-congratulatory awards to people who may or may not have contributed anything of significance to the industry beyond appearing in pretty clothes in society magazines or just for being someone’s friend.
And no one person should try to control or dominate the industry either. Everyone should put their egos aside and work together. Why can’t we be like Bangkok, Jakarta and Singapore?"
I wholly agree. Last week alone was Islamic Fashion Festival. MIFW, and a Stylo event. I know Stylo has their fashion week in conjunction with F1 in Malaysia and Singapore, so it seemed quite unnecessary when they HAD to throw a Stylo X event out of the blue on the very same night as KL Six at MIFW on Friday. Unnecessary or intentional?
Everyone in the fashion industry knows of the flying fur between Syeba Yip (who organises MIFW) and Nancy Yeoh (who organises Stylo), but to clash two major fashion events on the same night, causing all the designers and industry people to rush from one to the other or being torn between the two? Ridiculous.
Do read Dzireena's article here. What are your thoughts about it? Do you think Malaysia can actually form some sort of committee to schedule fashion events for a year? Or do you think too much fake fur will go flying and sequins being scratched? I'm curious to know whether anyone else feels the same.
