Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week to celebrate 10th anniversary at Pavilion KL from Aug 17 – 21, 2022

Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. (Source: Provided by KLFW)

Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week (KLFW) returns this year to celebrate its 10th year anniversary at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur from Aug 17 – 21, 2022.

This year’s showcase will feature more than 40 local designers’ ready-to-wear collections in a series of runway shows and presentations.

The five-day Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week will kick off with an opening ceremony at 2pm on Wednesday, August 17, and followed with The KL 10 Designer Search presented by Samsung; and Nurita Harith will close the week with the last show at 9.30pm on August 21.

Fashion enthusiasts can look forward to latest collections presented by designers and brands such as Bent, Khatreena, Farah Khan, Andy Bandy, Maatin Shakir, Kit Woo, Ezuwan Ismail, Fiziwoo, Dickson Lim, Glancez, Syomirizwa Gupta and Rizman Ruzaini.

Villiam Ooi, Hatta Dolmat, Jimmy Lim, Alia Bastamam, Behati, Mimpikita and Nurita Harith will also present their collections.

The official KLFW 2022 calendar schedule. (Source: Provided by KLFW)
Andrew Tan, founder of KL Fashion Week. (Source: Provided by KLFW)

Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week founder Andrew Tan said this year’s fashion week will be marked with a “decade of fashion revolution” as it celebrates 10 years of advocacy for the fashion industry.

When I started KLFW back in 2013, I knew that it would be a tremendous risk and a huge undertaking. I had previously worked for other event organizers with regard to Fashion Weeks and I had so many reservations in terms of the benefits it gave to Malaysian designers. I had a completely different vision in mind so we set out three parameters,” Tan said at the media launch on August 4.

He said the first parameter was to create tremendous interest in Malaysian fashion; the second parameter was to bring awareness to the ready-to-wear collection as an addition to the designers’ made-to-measure business mode; and the third set to find ways through networking and knowledge sharing to maintain the viability of the Malaysian fashion industry.

“I am proud to say that Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week had achieved all three parameters that we had set for ourselves and with 2022 being out 10th Year – it’s the closing of an amazing fashion chapter.”

The partners and sponsors for KLFW 2022 are Oribe (official hair), shu uemura (official makeup), Pavilion KL (official venue), AmBank, Samsung, Vespa, Isuzu, Poh Kong, Moccona and TIMEdotCom, among others.