Robby Tjia

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Just want to share my friend works, I think he's really talented.

Robby Tjia, fashion designer

Winner of the 2007 Lancôme Colour Design Award for Modern Femininity, Robby Tjia, has already completed an internship with Alexander McQueen’s London fashion house. “When I started fashion,” says Tjia “my work was more feminine. It still has a feminine element but it’s got an added hard edge.” As studio assistant for McQueen Tjia was responsible for toiling, fabric cutting, research, developing techniques and shapes.

“I like to challenge fashion,” Robby says. “To take something conventional and make it new but wearable.” The fashion designer started his degree in visual communication but craved something more hands on and transferred to fashion. He has no regrets about his year of visual communication.

“It gave me good computing skills and in the fashion industry, if you can do something more, you have a better chance of getting a better job.”