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<!-- EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --Amanda Brown is a Malaysian fashion designer well known for her denim creativity work ever since she graduated from IFTC College in 2004. Her first design was collection of a unique coin dress. The whole dress was made of one cent Malaysian coins and it weighed about 25 kilo. She then designed a dress made of Danish coins for Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Denmark as a wedding gift and this design landed her a spot in the Danish fashion magazine. She won first place in the Fomula1 competition, awarded by the famous fomula1 driver, Fernando Alonso, with an outstanding design of the PETRONAS male fomula1; silver, blue and yellow costume and for the umbrella girl costume in the 2005 competition held at the Zouk Club, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Inspired by her own works, Amanda decided to fulfill her dreams and ventured into her own business ‘Amanda Brown Couture with its official website being http://www.amandabrowncouture.com and her first clothing line being the denim collection, she is now known in Malaysia as a denim designer. She became the highest selling designer among other designers after selling her collection in the Isetan Japanese store in Malaysia, Amanda was then selected as a guest designer to design for an in house brand called ‘Cicada’ in 2006. In 2007 Amanda was invited to sell her brand in Isetan Singapore and got an opportunity to take part in the Singapore fashion week where she had a London buyer choose her to sponsor the BBC News TV wardrobe. During this time she worked with few Malaysian artists; Zainal Abidin, Datuk Jamal Ubaidillah bin Haji Ali, better known as Jamal Abdillah a well-known Malaysian pop singer and actor and a few young artists, she also sponsored for a TV program called Mentor with her outstanding designs. In 2010 Amanda brought a new meaning to creativity when she designed an outfit using Newspapers, making a huge coverage from all media. In addition to her accomplishments, Amanda’s work was recognized by the well-known classic Indian dancer, Ramli Ibrahim which landed her an opportunity to be the wardrobe designer for the theatre show at Istana Budaya.

After a 2 year break from a ramp show, Amanda Brown is back with her latest collection called “STRANDED SOUL IN BLACK COFFIN “which she showcased in a fashion show and theater play a collaboration with Datuk Ramli Ibrahim & Sutra Foundation Dancers at DBKL Auditorium. The whole play was a screen play and art direction by Amanda Brown. STRANDED SOUL IN BLACK COFFIN Based on the Gothic fashion concept of designer Amanda Brown, Stranded Soul in Black Coffin explores the mood and dramatic atmosphere of disembodied souls hovering on a lone cemetery as the spirit of a woman, who has recently died, as she struggles to make the crossover to the other spiritual realm. Her release comes in the form of a divine savior who comes to her rescue freeing her soul from limbo and enabling her transition to the ‘other’ realm. Amanda Brown will be show casing her new spring/summer 2016 Matador Denim Collection this coming 30th of October 2015 in an in house fashion show. MATADOR DENIM COLLECTION Amanda Brown spring/summer 2016 collection is clearly heavily influenced by Spanish couture’s and traditions as such as bull, collection color palette of red, black ,white, green and gold is significant to the Spanish theme. Red is not only one of the colors of the Spanish flag and the color of matador’s cape, it is also the color of fire and blood. Often associated with energy, power and determination, as well as passion and love, it is a very emotionally intensive color. Gold is the color of royalty and wealth, and black is the color of power, elegance and mystery. Amanda Brown wants her collection to express this strength and power yet also have her seductive site and sense of mystery. Some piece in the collection could be seen as (dress, shorts and long dress) this seductive color works well here. Bullfighting is iconic to Spanish tradition and couture and is seen as a demonstration of strength and courage. The ‘matador’ is a person in bullfighting who aggravates and fights with the bull. Amanda Brown’s collection uses influences from the uniform worn by a matador. Matadors wear silk jacket, heavily embroidered in goal and braiding, with skintight high waisted trouser. Amanda Brown using the matador uniform jacket influence, has decided to make a similar shape and style to that of a matador’s along with the high waisted shorts. Amanda Brown have added her own modern twist into a denim collection for example the shoulder pat on the matador’s coat are represented in the Amanda Brown collection by the use of braiding detail on the shoulders and their padded rigid structure. The embroidery detail on the matador’s jacket are replicated within the collection as black symmetrical braiding across the shorts and also on the chest of the jacket. Amanda Brown twist the matador shape of the jacket but has still managed to modernize the look by adding different details such as a collar and embroidery detail. Amanda Brown is not the first to have used a matador’s jacket as an influence for her collection. In 1960, Yves Saint Laurent had their take, a wool front embroidered, beaded and silk braided with velvet collar and cuffs. The style Amanda Brown creating the Mediterranean look using deep plum lipstick combined with seductive eye makeup and the models hair are elegantly done up in burns, some with roses ,maracas and crowns. Traditionally Flamingo dancers wore their hair in this style (a low burn) and the red roses are suggestive of the ruffles in their flamingo dresses. The flamingo dancers outfit were usually polka dotted and were combined by a mantle worn over their shoulders. This look will be incorporated into denim collection.