I was hyping myself to edit some runway shots of this morning’s MIFW show,
but am going to throw all the blame on RingoCheesie for chatting too long and making me laugh too loud in the middle of the night
+ + +
So… am just going to put these pix and rant i wrote earlier first.
Will add more pix tomorrow!
I met up with my old school friend Yishyene this morning,
as i’d invited her to come with me for MIFW.
She’s been working in London for the past 2 years and is back for hols.
Seeing she’s been to some shows at London Fashion Week and well, loves fashion,
i figured she’d enjoy it.
Oh, Yishyene…
I’m SORRY i invited you for a 4-hour show!!!
Justin‘s very proud of his eco-friendly shoes from Spain,
with heels made from recycled tyres.
A fashion disaster sitting in front of us…
i was so so tempted to ask permission to betulkan it for her…
but didn’t in the end.
My fashion conscience is weighing down on me now.
We waited for an hour before the show started.
AN HOUR.
I wish i had gone for coffee before that then!
I know night shows confirmed will start late, but tak sangka morning one will start that late too.
Thank the fairies for my BlackBerry…
I was checking my emails, including replying one about some shoes i ordered from Yunique Paradise
I still am not over how convenient and productive i can be with a BlackBerry when occasions that require waiting transpire.
Looking around me,
i saw a few other people fiddling with their Berries,
including Datuk Farah Khan who’s seated next to SunshineySteph (who’s next to me)
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When it did start, there were so many long speeches that Tweets spread around like fire that people were yawning/speeches were too long
I even heard from one of the designers that models backstage were mocking how long the speeches were.
/ / / / / / Then the show started bla bla bla this is the part i add in missing runway pictures i’m too lazy to edit now cos it’s past 3am and i have to wake up for a hair appointment, and personally, that is higher on my priority list right now whoops did i just type that / / / / / /
Here’s one picture of supermodel Ai Tominaga at MIFW:
View more pictures here.
ANTM (cycle 8 ) winner Jaslene opened for Jonathan Liang
Oh-crazy-one and i faking smiles.
We’re actually really sore and grumpy from sitting down for 4 hours without water + food.
Thanks to dear Jimmy for the invites! His friend Sam on the right.
Jimmy’s was undoubtedly one of the strongest collections i saw this morning
(I may be bias, but i heard DFK got his contact for who-knows-what 
)
Around my neck is a horse hair necklace i specifically asked from him,
along with another piece i intend to buy.
I called it my hairy penis while stroking it.
Sorry if i scared people around me.
Actually, no, i’m not sorry.Β
“Mummy, can i meet you later?”
Yishyene’s mom’s skirt.
Karen Wong + Gwen Yeoh on the job for TIC.
Rant:
As i walked up to Grandmama’s restaurant for lunch,
I brewed over the day’s show.
And got more and more upset and pissed the more i thought about it.
The show was SUCH a mix of great and bad design,
that the bad unfortunately over shone the rest.
So many of the young designers who showed fantastic work last year didn’t show this year.
Why?
I asked some of them and the answers were all around the same:
– they couldn’t afford to
– MIFW doesn’t really support them
– they don’t want to part of such an organisation after previous encounters
The ones who could afford to (despite not being actual designers) were chucked in alongside other passionate designers.
It just made the whole show look so messy.
I can’t believe people had to sit thru and watch a so-called fashion show on some jewelry that looked like it could have come from the pasar malam (pasar malam description courtesy of Yishyene)
There was no original design to it, and the overall presentation was terrible.
Just because people have money to pay to partake in the fashion show, you let them?
What about quality? What about real passion for design and fashion?
You could easily tell that some of the designs that floated down the runway were amateur,
and were only up there because some people had the money.
Yes, life is unfair.
Yes, MIFW is business, and at the end of the day, it’s about money.
And yes, i feel heartache that the young designers who are capable of flaunting new ideas and taking bigger fashion chances can’t present their ideas to a larger audience.
I would have loved to see a more organized set of designers put in a show,
and not a rojak of great + bad design.
In one sentence:
I FELT ASHAMED to bring my friend who’s attended London Fashion Week to MIFW!
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there’s a reason why my invite’s sitting among the pile of junk mail this year.
back to archi, i go. or so commanded TSFY.
seriously..today Mifw show is one of the worst show i ever seen…waisted my whole day..only 2 to 3 designers are worth seeing..real disappointing!!! u r right bout ‘so call’ business MIFA..they shouldn’t put title under MIfw instead should change the name to Malaysia Fashion Pasar Malam!!
omg yunique paradise is gonna make me broke. thx 4 the link π
was this at pavilion last night?
wahahahah i see u managed it in the end π
Yowza, I’ve not actually heard anything positive from this year’s event yet. π
Yah kinda sucks, some years is ok but some years is terrible. This year seems to be worst yet.
Glad I gave it a miss.
I don’t see why MIF-W has to be about business and money, I don’t see fashion weeks in other countries being so commercialized.
I guess it’s Malaysia Boleh style.
i sat smirking with a yummy latte and a toastie as i read your tweets on it running hours late ^_^ luckily didnt go…
Thank you Joyce, you said it all; everything that I wanted to say! To be honest with you, I too, have nothing nice to say about MIFW except for my friends’ shows, Jaslene ANTM and Ai Tominaga, and Syomir’s collection! π
Oh yeah, actress can APPARENTLY become runway models too. I dont mind if they’re stick thin/tall.. but.. short, etc, etc with NIPSLIP moment on the runway?
If this is the 7th MIFA, I don’t wish for the 8th. Quality is certainly not their priority.
I hope the organizers do realize that it’s important to give a BIG CHANGE for the 8th MIFA. Because, fashion week is NOT a science experiment.
I think you know me. π
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YC: I actually knew straight away what TSFY stood for! i ees so crever *beams*
yuki: “Malaysia Fashion Pasar Malam” omg you made me laugh so hard for a minute there!
kimberly: yeah man, very hard to resist π
ky: in the morning! i sat there from 11:30 – 3:30
cheesie: what you talking… my runway shots all still missing :p
niki: not to say the whole thing is bad la… last year’s was actually better overall
ST: i didn’t expect this year’s to be bad to be honest…
ellie: ARGH you ar!
XO: i got an accidental shot of the nipslip :p but thought i won’t be so mean to post it..! nanti one day something like that happens to me, i’ll be praying some nice person won’t be posting a baring-it pic of me too!
ditto bout actresses being runway models.
hmm… who ARE you! :p
It is a shame cos’ we are hoping that Malaysia can be one of the fashion hub in Asia, at least in the South East Asia.
Yet, they are presenting something like this in MIFA.
Sad Sad
I saw you sitting at the front row on the 1st day. I was sitting opposite of you π You described the event really well. It was such a disappointment! The jeweleries were like from pasar malam! haha. I was rather shocked that they could displayed such things. I was one of those playing with my mobile while waiting for an hour! I left halfway & went for lunch instead.