mifa! @ The Garden

Two (2) weeks ago, I attended the mifa’08 (Malaysia International Fashion Award) fashion at The Garden MidValley with Steph. It was our second time attending mifa. The first one was at KL Convention Center last year.

This year round, or I would say both this year (this and last year). Based on my experience, the event was poorly managed.

Firstly, those who emailed or called in to RSVP for the event are counted as walk-in visitor because they were not given the black and white copy of the invites even though they told us to print the email and show as proof. WTF!?! To obtain those invites, you have to be “somebody” and I really mean “somebody somebody“. Either you know people from the inside or you’re a designers or some sort of VVIP/VIP. Which I don’t give a shit! But after all, they are their big bosses.

Secondly, even though they may have plenty of unoccupied seats inside in the hall, they have to let the VIPs enter first. So big deal, eh? And we, the normal people/walk-in visitor/the nobody have to wait till all the VIPs are seated first and if, BIG IF, IF there are still available seats, then only they will let you in. Wah lau wei!!! A little too much, right? This really put people off, you know? What happened to those people travel to KL from outstation, and some took the trouble to take leaves just to attend the shows? This will really discourage them from attending the following year.

And thirdly, so what if it’s a big event? Very BIG EVENT, hor? Why are there so many restrictions? Why spend so much money on publicities when they can’t even hire the right people to manage the event properly. Oooooh, I understand… Mifa is a profit making event and all they want is to take money from the government. Oops! It’s true anyway. Sue me!

Anyway, this year around, the running settings were better compared to last year. There were more seats and the place were bigger as well. I personally do like the decorations and the combination of colours used on the runway. They even have chandelier in the hall. Very classy.

Our very own Miss World Malaysia 2007 - Deborah Henry was the host for the entire event.

I only attended two (2) of the shows on the first day of mifa. Couldn’t really bother to attend the reminding one even though I have RSVP them. You know why la. And also because I didn’t want to take the risk of being disappointed if they really do ran out of seats and I might have to resort to hanging outside and yet still pay for parking. The parking was not cheap at all. That day itself, I spent 11 hours at MidValley and the parking fee came out to total of RM8!!! Just imagine if I were to attend all four (4) days event. Siao wei!!!

I’m not too sure the Gala night turned out. But those events were not open to public. Hmmm… How can I ever on the list?

The Truely Asia show was very boring. Nothing to shout about and some of the clothes are just so not practical. Yes, it’s creative but ermmm… I don’t know. On the other hand, the mifa8 show was really good. I was in fact very impressed by the work produced by the participants! They were only students and I thought their design really rock it! *two (2) thumbs up* But I do wonder how many of them really made the outfits themselves. I’m sure it is impossible to produce ten (10) outfits all by themselves. Okay, it is possible but it wouldn’t be as easy.

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