What would it take to make Malaysians wear (our own) batik again?
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 22 -- While local batik industry players have called for it to be showcased and promoted during Visit Malaysia Year 2020 (VMY20), there seems to be a resurgence of the print's popularity among the youths.
The only problem is this new wave of like is not for Malaysia batik.
They seem to prefer the Indonesia-style Batik Jawa to our East Coast Batik! There are a few reasons for this; ironically, the chief among them is affordability.
Celebrity fashion designer Datuk Radzuan Radzwill said locally produced batik should be mass produced and industry players should stop treating machine-printed batik with hostility.
He took this a step further and said that instead of making batik the official attire of government official...
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