Interview with Au Jie Min
Jasmine Au Jie Min, Fashion Design Student from Raffles University, Malaysia. She would like to express her perspective on the society issues that been neglected or negatively affecting the human and…
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24 May 2022
I love to play with different clothing, especially my mother's wardrobe. it is quite interesting to say that my mum used to ask me to help her match up the outfits for any event or gathering and her friends always praise on her looks, therefore I become her little stylist since primary school. I love to sketch randomly whenever I am free since I was child. It then become my dream to enter fashion world to design my own collection.
My own label, Ja-Jmi is named according to my name, Jasmine Au Jie Min. It is actually my future plan for building own label that main focused on sustainability to make myself part of the green mover.
Design is a transformation of self-art and thoughts as well as expression through the designed artwork.
Researching the inspiration and initial ideas of works and initial fast sketches with tons of random sketches.
Whenever I am fully relaxed, especially during vacation, I will be super productive on designing and full of inspirations.
Inner meaning of the collection, that's why I love researching so much.
passionate and exciting
Exciting and self-confident gained!
Believe on yourself, express the thoughts and good researched included as well as try on challenging yourself.
The uniqueness of technique used in the collection and its storyline that presenting the collection.
A designer should always aware of the things happened surrounding to engage his/ her designs with the current issues and raise up certain awareness through the collection.
Design field is moving towards sustainability that wish to contribute on moving green and preserve the Mother Earth as much as we can.
My inspiration normally come from news and realtime issues articles. I am interested to read more on real time issues and tried to understand and realising the actual problem faced.
My design style did not strictly stick to any style but it will always come up with some new developed or innovated techniques to include into the collection and become my uniqueness on the particular techniques.
I live in Malaysia. Malaysia is not advance in fashion field and could be known as limited resources but I am thankful to my lecturer, Ms. Jennifer Kong who teaches me that how to broader the mindset and research as well as self-thought and ideas developments.
Research will be the first part to explore more on your initial ideas and inspiration. During the research, I will start to develop some sampling and then make those sampling with random matching or merging, then test on new techniques by try and error until it become the shape or outcome that I wish to.
Don't afraid on trying hard things. Whenever you do it, you will realise that it is not as hard as you think before. Make your development process to accept challenges by trying things that you might not that familiar, things will make different later. You will then gained a uniqueness on your collection.
Do things that you might not good at, or you never been touched before. Don't afraid new things, it will be your uniqueness later.
Accepting challenges.
Leave your social media during work time. Create to-do-list and manage a timetable with estimate start and complete date.
2-3 months from design to actual outcomes.
Do you know how to make up your collection or just drawing?
Create my own label.
email at jasmine.aujiemin@aufashion.group or WhatsApp/ call at +60167571160