Yesterday I blogged about how we should be supporting up and coming designers to preserve the creative juices in the industry. New designers are a breath of fresh air as they bring with them a very young take on fashion. It's not that I am dissing the more experienced designers. Sure they have been leaders to whom we are greatly in debt to for giving us brilliant tapestries of their work. But the younger generation is giving a fresh spin on techniques that make their designs cool and youthful. That is what all of us want isn't it? - to look young....as long as we can.
In the past three to four years, there has been a string of young and hip designers crashing the international fashion scene. While we have always been used to names like Valentino, Donatella Versace, Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan and so on, have you heard of Philip Lim, Derek Lam, Prabal Gurung...? They are the Asians (some have settled down in New York) who have gate-crashed the party and carved a place for themselves in the international fashion circuit. Take a look at their creations.
I am convinced that Asia is a force to be reckoned with - we're big, we take up the largest percentage of internet users in the world and we're the next big cash cow. There's a huge market in Asia and the western world is already hacking at it to get the most of it.
Malaysia is no stranger to the fashion scene either. There's a pool of talented designers in Malaysia that have made their mark internationally with the likes of Melinda Looi, Bernard Chandran, Zang Toi to name a few. There's no stopping the Asians. We want to take on the world!
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