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Ismail Sabri Bapa Fesyen Malaysia PM Sporting TV Test Pattern Designer Shirt in Istanbul
By Mihar Dias
(C) Copyright July 2022
Netizens who follow Bapa Fesyen Malaysia PM’s trendy clothing have been cracking their heads trying to figure out what the design meant and where it originated from.
It is quite puzzling what could have inspired the designer to produce a kind of modern batik to wrap around the PM’s body on his recent trip to Istanbul.
The last two shirts worn at a Tokyo meeting and at an event in Putrajaya were Burberry’s.
They were easy enough for everyone to understand and check out price tags over the internet. But this appears more like a modern batik motif rarely seen.
In the past, his batik shirts were supposedly designed by his son-in-law but this does not seem anything that resembles the kueh lapis design of the pandemic-briefing days.
It took a week before one of my former participants in the National Art Gallery’s Young Art Entrepreneurs (YAE) Career Development Programme offered a possible solution to the puzzle.
Thanes Kichi an artist in the YAE scheme shared an image of a TV test pattern via his Facebook page which finally clicked as a remote possibility.
Look at the shirt and the test pattern, now squint your eyes and move your gaze up and down and side to side.
You’ll be able to see all the colours from the test pattern on the shirt. In fact, all the colours on the shirt are found on the test pattern. Then consider the black and white zebra stripes which are enlarged from the test pattern and projected onto the shirt. Yes, there is a distinct possibility of a TV test pattern on Ismail’s latest collection of a trendy new shirts.
Quite a clever idea. My congratulations to the artist who thought of the idea.
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