Malaysia Fashion Week is being hosted from November 4 to 7 in Kuala Lumpur. This is Malaysia’s leading trade fashion and lifestyle event. The event features established and emerging designers with varied collections from Islamic fashion, office and casual wear to high fashion. The fashion week gives visitors a chance to get first-hand inside knowledge and style advice from Malaysia’s designers in a unique fashion experience. It features 290 booths with 68 per cent Malaysian and 32 per cent international businesses from 14 countries.

The event is expected to generate 10 per cent higher sales this year compared with the sales recorded last year. Malaysia’s fashion and textile industry offers huge potential for trade, given the many talented local designers, especially global fashion icon Jimmy Choo. Malaysia’s continued trade surplus in the past 216 consecutive months, despite current economic challenges, has showcased the country’s healthy and strong fundamentals. Malaysia has never experienced a trade deficit since the financial crisis in 1997.

The fashion week has been assigned to form a committee to look into technical and vocational training for youths who are not academically inclined but are talented in technical and vocational aspects. This committee will help these gifted young people to explore their talent in fashion and design.

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