The Artist Within: Venie Tee
April 17, 2006 | Senay TOPCUOGLU
Fashion is about setting trends.
It is also about studying the art behind it, understanding the finer detail that makes fashion as much an art form as the Impressionists and Surrealists, so beloved for their intimate artistic expression of the time.
Fashion design graduate Venie Tee took an unusual route in her studies that shows clearly how artistic impulses can take a girl much further in the world than is usually associated with art students.
From the humble beginnings of learning to draw and sew at a local design institute, Venie has since scooped the Malaysian International Fashion Award (Mifa) and is about to start her own clothes label in Malaysia.
But life is not just about fancy sketches, threads and buttons for Venie.
Interestingly, she had dropped out of the last year of a three-year high school course at a private Chinese school to pursue what she really liked - the arts!
Looks like following traditional education routes is not always the best way to get ahead.
The 27-year-old had then pursued a BA in Fine Art with Central St Martins College of Art and Design, a prestigious art school in London which boasts of designers like John Galliano, Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen among its celebrity alumni.
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