KUCHING: Local designer, Yacutha focuses on ‘ready to wear’ clothes that provide convenience.
He also added items of print and commercial fabric to suit Kuching’s popular demand
Yacub Taha, more famously known as Yacutha began his fashion line ‘Yacutha’ in 2017 portraying and promoting local Sarawak designs in fashion weeks, modeling shoots with customers/clients.
He has since produced roughly about 4,000 designs in his five years in the Yacutha fashion clothing industry.
The ‘Yacutha’s Raya Ready to Wear High Tea Fashion Show 2023’ held at Bvlganvilla Restaurant, on Sunday (March 19) was Yacutha’s first solo show for Raya.
“The clothes that the models wear is a clash of fabrics and a clash of print in terms of fabrics that I like and I just combine it and make it interesting,” he told reporters at the fashion show.
Yacutha highlighted that he focuses more on ‘ready to wear’ clothes and tries to maintain a unique Yacutha DNA which is a mixture of print and commercial fabric which is a popular demand in Kuching.
He added that he tries to promote and create, as well as blend the Yacutha DNA into his own design preference.
Meanwhile, he stressed that fashion is about business, and not for glam and urges the public to continue giving support to local designs and designers.
“We have a lot of beautiful and talented designers here. It’s just a matter of how we promote it. I’m part of it (fashion industry) so I always tell the young designers that fashion is business.
“It’s not a glam, you create, you sell (if) you don’t create you just show it, that’s business to me, because fashion is business and it’s a matter of how you portray or market it,” he added.
When asked where he gets his inspiration from, he said that his inspirations come from a day to day experience that he sees daily.
“I create stuff that people wear. A ‘baju kurung’ top can be a dress, with a belt, my Yacutha, you can style it in your own individual wear,” he said.
During the event, 24 models participated in the fashion show with eight of them being men and 16 of them were women, ranging between 18 and 30 years old.
