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Borneo.Insider’s.Guide
veryone has a childhood hope but life has a tendency to get in the way, detracting us from pursuing what we yearn for. Here however we have a young lady that despite her obstacles never stopped chasing what was once a dream, but is now her reality.
of Technology & Innovation she spent a year searching for work to no avail. When all seemed lost the key moment came quite unexpectedly. To her surprise her dad flipped the script completely. Asking her if she would like to enroll in a fashion course she was happy beyond measure.
Nabilah Fadzillah, a 27-year-old, who has had a passion for arts and crafts for as long as she can remember used to fill notebooks with sketches of characters in a wide enough array of outfits that the images itself could be defined as having character. Armed with a marketing management degree from Malaysia’s Asia Pacific University
Taking into account her 4 closest friends from her university days – who doubled up as her fashion crew, who tripled up as her sneakerhead gang – whom she discussed the sportsretail aspect of fashion with so often, she ended up doing a final year thesis on sneakers. Her next move was a given. With no local footwear designers and shoe lines in the Sultanate, there
