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EDRIC ONG WINS DESIGNER OF THE
YEAR AWARD
Renowned Sarawakian designer,
Edric Ong won the prestigious Designer of the Year
Award at the recent Mercedes Benz-Stylo Fashion Week
held in Kuala Lumpur last Friday.
Datuk Nancy Yeoh, CEO of Stylo
announced the results at the finale of fashion
extravaganza which saw the participation of 36
Malaysian designers and three guest designers from
Madrid, Spain. Melinda Looi, was also the joint
winner of the Award.
Former Prime Minister, YABhg Tun
Abdullah Badawi presented the trophy and a Rouberge
watch to Edric Ong at the Award ceremony.
During the Mercedes-Stylo show,
Edric presented a collection themed “Saffron Blues”,
evocative of summer breezes, sunny beaches,
moonlight swims, romance & beach weddings.
The fashion collection featured
two main natural colours:
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Saffron from the Jackfruit
tree bark
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Blue from natural ‘indigofera
tinctoria’ leaves
Using natural cotton, linen and
silk on EO design batik, Iban ‘Pua Kumbu’ and hand
stitched ‘Kantha’ embroidery, Edric has recently
shown his collection in Harrods London, and will
showcase them in Jakarta in mid April. He will also
be exhibiting the latest range of Iban silk “pua
kumbu’ textiles at the Prince of Wales Gallery in
London at the end of May.
E.R.O’S ART2WEAR
ART2WEAR or WEARABLE ART-
whichever way you want to call it, is the latest
creative collaboration of Edric and Ramsay Ong(E.R.O.)
The artistic cousins launched their current
indulgence in fashion and accessories at their
gallery, Artrageously Ramsay Ong and EO Gallery
along 96-98 Main Bazaar, Kuching on Saturday 29th
Nov with a fashion show.
The unique fashionwear of Edric
Ong combines a touch of the ethnic and oriental with
the contemporary; innovating styles with creative
use of hand-woven ikats and batiks in silks and
cottons using natural dyes.
Art2Wear features his latest
range of award winning silk Iban ‘pua kumbu’
textiles and his designs of exquisitely fine
hand-painted silk batik with orchids and pitcher
plant motifs.
Ramsay Ong’s creative jewelry
draws from the cultural traditions of Sarawak people
combining glass, ceramic and semi-precious stones
with fiber, bone, and silver. His beadwork creations
have become collectible items, and are now spread
all over the globe from Asia to Australia, Europe
and North America.
His jewelry line is called
“Bead-Art: Praise Your Neck”.
WORLD ECO-FIBER AND TEXTILE (W.E.F.T)
FORUM GALA INTERNATIONAL FASHION SHOW (13 SEPTEMBER
2008)
Edric Ong created another unique
and original thematic collection at the 5th Bienniel
WEFT FORUM held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
He used the unique tree bark
cloth known as ‘talun’, plaited and lined with
linen, trimmed with faux fur as shawls and capes or
as appliques on sheer silk tops; then he presented
the unfinished woven pandanus mats as bustiers
teamed with hand painted ,natural dyed silk batik
wraps.
As a finale, Edric’s two black
models wowed the capacity crows of the Civic Center
with a futuristic twist using the ‘jala’ or casting
net of fishermen!
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