Fashion, says one week Mail former assistant editor Aishah Ali, who is also one of the authors contributing to the irresistible wear catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition, it becomes art when the creative process of policies involved in the design. And when the creative process take a flight of fancy to produce one-of-kind costumes, known as art to wear.
The designers, consisting of the name is known and lesser known in the country, working as a team on a common theme that includes art to wear pieces with their own visual language that is based on a variety of effects, including elements of refuse, and use a variety of materials and techniques in an innovative way.
Materials including cotton, silk and valuable fiber of kenaf, hibiscus plant East India used mainly for cordage, canvas and dismissal. “As we celebrate 100 years of batik in Malaysia this year, we decided to also have elements of batik refused, to tie and dye tjanting, to print,” said exhibition curator Professor Muhammad Najib Nor, a professor at the Faculty of creative technologies, University Malaysia Kelantan.