fashion designer. singaporean now based in london. orang melayu....
Ashley Isham, Singaporean boy turned world renown fashion designer, believes that there are no short cuts to success. Hard work and more hard work is the only way. “Eat, breathe and live fashion,” advises Ashley to budding fashion designers in the School of Design, Temasek Polytechnic, whom he met on 7 December. “It is pointless for someone not to be passionate.” The world famous fashion designer still relishes the home grown comforts of wearing flip flops and scouring Singapore’s hawker centres to satiate his local palate. Firmly etched values of humility and hard work keep Ashley grounded in the heady world of celebrities. “My mother is my inspiration, and my reality check,” Ashley says.
As a boy growing up in Singapore, he was a willing apprentice to his seamstress mother, to whom he attributes his initial passion for fashion design. Ashley has come a long way from those days, rising to fame in London where his signature contemporary classics are the pursuit of celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga. “Every woman should be feminine,” professes Ashley. “When a woman is individual, empowered and at the same time chic, she is attractive.” Such a woman challenges Ashley and fuels his passion in design. His most admired designer, the late Alexander McQueen, remains a lasting influence, not just in fashion design, but also in carving individualism. Fame has not come easily, and neither has it changed Ashley. A “passionate perfectionist”, Ashley works hard, chalking in 12-hour days in his London studio, juggling between email messaging, sketching, dealing with suppliers and clients. Ashley’s boutiques are now in London, the Middle East, Russia and Singapore. He continues to collaborate with Singapore’s designers and brands and is very encouraged by Singapore’s fashion scene, which he describes as going through ‘a resurgence’. Ashley reasons” “People in Singapore are now seeing that you can make a real living as a designer.” About time too, because as Ashley maintains: “Asian designers are good.”
Ashley Isham – Biography: Born in 1979 in Singapore, Ashley Isham pursued his fashion design education in the United Kingdom, where he graduated from the University of Middlesex. He established his own label, Ashley Isham, in 2000. The first career breakthrough was marked by his debut collection at London Fashion Week in 2003, earning Ashley unprecedented rave reviews and catapulting him to fame. In 2004. Ashley was appointed the official designer for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Berita Harian Achiever of the Year Award. Ashley lives and works in London, and makes thrice yearly trips to Singapore, where he has a flagship boutique in the Fullerton Hotel. His label is also available at Ashley Isham Boutique atTheMandarin Gallery on Orchard Road His collections are regularly shown in Singapore’s fashion events.
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Post time 14-8-2018 12:05 PM
meols tgk just an inspired runway je... even yg ashley tu pny way more better than her la... klu gittew knp xserang je ig rizalman yg beg ribag tu pon inspire brand mane nth. haritu ad thread pasal ni.. same dgn duck tu pon ad beg inspired jgk.. 
tp yg pelancaran tudung by ikon muslimah semalaysia-paki dlm zouk tu btul xprnh dibuat org..
