When I first heard Modest Islamic Fashion had hit New York Fashion Week’s runway in September last year featuring a full collection with hijab, I was so eager to write about the story that made history in the world of Modest Fashion. Whatever the events that prevented me to write about the significance on how amazing the story was, I now understand and am thankful I didn’t write about it straight away. Yes, history was made. Yes, the designs were…
As part of the GAYA team, I was invited to attend Malaysia’s very first international modest fashion event, Kuala Lumpur Modest Fashion Week 2016 (KLMFW 2016). KLMFW 2016 is the continual of previously Moslema In Style International Fashion Forward event which took place in November last year. GAYA Magazine was one of the proud media partners at KLMFW 2016 and attending as part of the entourage was an opportunity to experience and embrace. Positioned to make Kuala Lumpur the number…
Throughout the months leading up to the rebranding and relaunch of my blog, I came across an online magazine that was very in line with my blog. With their mission, “Bringing Modest Fashion into the Digital Age,” it drew me in and quickly I whipped up an email expressing my interest in becoming a contributor to their magazine. I wasn’t sure how my email would be perceived, though I was hopeful and patiently awaited their reply. To my surprise, I was emailed…
Not too long ago, I wrote about Tulyss, an emerging fashion shoe house in Australia and in Malaysia. Their lovely Autumn Collection has now been released with flats being the main theme in the range. My favourite from the Autumn Collection 2015 is the Jentayu. It features a pointy frontage near the toes and of course it still has the emphasis on quality and maintaining the comfortable insole Tulyss aims for in each pair, as well as padding all around.…
So I was sayin’… Creativity, right? (Refer to my previous post if you haven’t read it already.) And I have to admit, I use to not care what I looked like when I was younger. I was quite a tomboy and you would see me running around in the basketball courts with shorts on, hair in a ponytail and my school shirt on playing basketball with some guy friends. Fashion is a development of that creativity I grew up with over…