LUSH creator | April 2018
Secret of Stones and the Lady
Creator : Designer Ma Latt
Art Director by Thihan Kyaw Oo
Photographed by Aung Myo Thant (Now Studio)
MakeUp & Hair Artist : Sithu Hein (Missy Wine)
Interviewed by snow
Translated by r.e.saw
ဒီဇိုင္နာမျဖစ္ခင္အစ္မရဲ႕ဘဝအေၾကာင္းေလးအက်ဥ္းရွင္းျပလို႔ရနိုင္မလားရွင့္။
အစ္မဒီဇိုင္နာမလုပ္ခင္ ငယ္ငယ္ကဒီအလုပ္ကိုဝါသနာပါမွန္းမသိခဲ့ဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္အမပန္းခ်ီဆြဲရတာေတာ့ဝါသနာပါတယ္။ပန္းခ်ီဆြဲ ေနရရင္ေက်နပ္ တဲ့သူူေပါ့။အေမကလည္းစက္ခ်ဳပ္သင္တန္း ဖြင့္ထားေတာ့ဒီအလုပ္နဲ႔ေတာ့အျမဲထိေတြ႔ေနခဲ့တယ္။အစ္မဆယ္တန္း ေအာင္ေတာ့ေက်ာင္းဆက္ မတက္ခ်င္ဘူးဒီဇိုင္နာ အလုပ္ဘဲလုပ္ခ်င္တယ္ဆိုျပီးအေမ့ကိုေျပာခဲ့တယ္။မိန္းကေလးအေနနဲ အနည္းဆံုး ဘြဲ႔တစ္ခုရသင့္တယ္ ဆိုျပီးအေမ ကတိုက္တြန္းခဲ့တယ္။အဲ့ဒါေျကာင့္အစ္မေက်ာင္းလည္း ဆက္တက္ ဒီအလုပ္လဲလုပ္ရင္း နဲ႔ဘြဲ႔ရျပီးခ်ိန္မွာေတာ့ဒီဇိုင္နာအလုပ္ကိုဘဲေဇာက္ခ်လုပ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။
တီထြင္ဖန္တီးမႈနဲ႔ပက္သက္လို႔အစ္မရဲ႕အျမင္ေလးကိုေျပာျပေပးပါဦး။
တီထြင္ဖန္တီးမႈနဲ႔ပက္သက္လို႔ အစ္မအေနနဲ႔ပန္းခ်ီမွာပဲရႈးသြပ္ခဲ့လို႔ထင္တယ္၊ ပန္းေတြဆိုရင္လည္း အစ္မကရိုးရိုးပန္းအဝိုင္းပံုစံေတြမၾကိဳက္ပဲေကာက္ျပီးရစ္ႏြယ္ေနတဲ့ ထူးဆန္းတဲ့ပန္းပံုစံေလးေတြပိုၾကိဳက္တယ္။ တနည္းေျပာရရင္ဖန္တီးမႈနဲ႔ ပက္သက္လို႔ပံုသ႑ာန္မမွန္တာေတြကို ပိုၾကိဳက္တယ္။ဒါအစ္မရဲ႕အမူအက်င့္ေပါ့ေနာ္။ ဒီေလာကထဲေရာက္လာတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာေတာ့ ကႏႈတ္ဒီဇိုင္းေတြဆြဲရင္လည္း ထူးဆန္းတဲ့ကႏႈတ္ေတြ ဆြဲျဖစ္တယ္။ ကိုယ့္စိတ္ထဲမွာျဖစ္ေပၚလာတဲ့အတိုင္း ပိတ္စေတြေပၚLayer ခံျပီးဆြဲ ျဖစ္တယ္။ အဲကေနအစ္မတစ္ျဖည္းျဖည္း antique Layer ေတြပိုၾကိဳက္လာတယ္။ ဒီလိုနဲ႔အစ္မထပ္ျပီးထူးျခားတာေလးေတြ လုပ္ခ်င္တာေျကာင့္လတ္တေလာမွာျမန္မာ ျပည္မွာမရွိေသးတဲ့ accessories creation ေလးကိုကိုယ္တိုင္ ေသခ်ာေလ့လာျပီးလုပ္တယ္။ အစ္မ ညီမကသင္တန္း တက္ျပီးဘန္ေကာက္မွာ ဆိုင္ဖြင့္ထားတယ္။ သူ႔ဆီကေနလဲကိုယ္လိုတာေလးေတြေလ့လာျဖစ္တယ္။
အဝတ္ဖန္တီးမႈအျပင္ stones ေတြနဲ႔အလွအပဖန္တီးတာေတြကိုဘယ္လိုေၾကာင့္လုပ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တာလဲအစ္မ။
International show ပြဲတစ္ခုမွာ အဝတ္အအစားဒီဇိုင္းေတြကို ေက်ာက္ေတြထဲကမွေက်ာက္စိမ္းနဲ ဖန္တီးဖို႔ အေတြးရွိခဲ့တယ္။အဲဒီကေနျပီးအစ္ မတို႔ ဖက္ရွင္ဒီဇိုင္နာ အဖြဲ႔နဲ အတူ Show ပြဲစလုပ္ေတာ့ေက်ာက္အၾကမ္းထည္ အရိုင္းတံုးေလးေတြကိုအေခ်ာသတ္ျဖတ္ျပီး အက်ီၤမွာတန္ဆာဆင္ျပီး စျပခဲ့တယ္။ ေနာက္ျပီးအစ္မအေနနဲ႔ဒီလို ဒီဇိုင္းေတြကို ဝတ္ဆင္ဖို ့ေရြးခ်ယ္လာသူေတြကိုသူမ်ားနဲ့ မတူဘဲထူးထူးျခားျခားေလးျဖစ္ေစခ်င္တယ္။ ဒီလိုနဲ ့ေက်ာက္တံုးေတြအက်ီီမွာဆင္တဲ့ဒီဇိုင္းမ်ဳိးေတြကို ကိုယ္တိုင္ဖန္တီးျဖစ္ခဲ ့တာပါ။
လူအမ်ားစုကေတာ့ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ Fashion Show ေတြကေန ထြင္လိုက္တဲ့အဝတ္အစံုေတြကို Show ပြဲမွာတစ္ခါသံုးျပီးတာနဲ႔ အသံုး မတည့္ေတာ့ဘူး လို႔ျမင္တတ္ၾကတဲ့အျမင္အေပၚအစ္မရဲ႕ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္ကေလးကိုလည္းသိပါရေစ။
အဲလိုမ်ဳိးေတာ့မရွိပါဘူး။ဒါေပမယ့္တစ္ခုရွိတာက Show ပြဲလုပ္မယ္ဆို ကိုယ္လုပ္တဲ့Showပြဲတစ္ခုရဲ႕ Targetကိုစဥ္းစားျပီး
ဖန္တီးတဲ ့Design ေတြ က Public မွာတကယ္အသံုးတည့္ေစခ်င္တယ္၊ လူတိုင္းဝတ္လ႔ို ရတာမ်ိုးျဖစ္ခ်င္တယ္။အဲတာေျကာင့္
ဒီ ဇိုင္းကိုေသခ်ာေလးစဥ္းစားျဖစ္ တယ္။တခါတေလက်ေတာ့လည္း Fashion Show ဆိုတာဒီဇို္င္နာတစ္ေယာက္ရဲ ့လုပ္ျပနိုင္တဲ႔ အရာတစ္ခုကိုခ်ျပတဲ ့ပြဲေလးေပါ့။
ေက်ာက္အရိုင္းတံုးေလးေတြနဲ႔ လက္ဝတ္လက္စား ဖန္တီးတဲ့အခါဘယ္လိုေက်ာက္ေတြအသံုးျပဳျဖစ္လဲ။ အသံုးျပဳတဲ့ေက်ာက္ ေတြကို ဘယ္ကေနစုေဆာင္းလဲ သိပါရေစ။
အစ္မကေတာ့လံုးေခ်ာေက်ာက္ပံုစံေလးေတြမၾကိဳက္ပဲသဘာဝပံုစံအတိုင္းရွိေနတဲ့ေက်ာက္အရိုင္းတံုးေလးေတြပိုသေဘာက်တယ္။ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ့ပိုင္းျဖတ္ထားတဲ့သဘာဝပံုစံေက်ာက္စက္ေလးေတြနဲ႔ေက်ာက္ျဖစ္ရုပ္ကၽြင္းေလးေတြၾကိဳက္တယ္။အသံုးမ်ားတဲ့ ေက်ာက္ေတြကေတာ့ သႏၱာေက်ာက္၊ Lapis Lazuli၊ Petrified wood၊ Blue Lace Agate၊ Black Agate၊ Pearl, Gray Shell, Seashell, Blister Pearl, Ammonite stone, fluorite, lemon quartz, green lace agate, jade ေတြကိုအဓိကသံုးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘန္ေကာက္မွာရွိတဲ့အစ္မညီမဖြင့္ထားတဲ့ Poko Gallery ကေနေက်ာက္ေတြကိုအမ်ားဆံုးယူပါတယ္။ သူကလည္း အစ္မလိုခ်င္တာေလးေတြကိုေသခ်ာျပေပးတယ္။ အဲ့တာေျကာင့္Show ပြဲေတြမွာသံုးတဲ့ေက်ာက္ေတြ အတြက္အစ္မညီမက အမ်ားဆံုးပါဝင္ကူ ညီအားျဖည့္ေပးထားတာေပါ့ ။
အစ္မအေနနဲ႔လက္ဝတ္ရတနာအသစ္အဆန္းေတြကိုထြင္တဲ့အခါဘယ္ကေနမွီျငမ္းလဲ။ကိုယ္ဖန္တီးလိုက္တဲ့accessories ဝတ္ဆင္မယ့္သူေတြအတြက္ဘယ္လိုsenseမ်ဳိးေပးခ်င္လဲသိပါရေစ။
အစ္မအေနနဲ႔ ဘယ္အရာမဆိုကိုယ့္အတြက္ ပညာပဲလို႔ခံယူျပီးေနရာစံု ကေနေလ့လာျဖစ္တယ္။ ပံုသ႑ာန္မတူဘဲ ထူးထူးဆန္းဆန္း ေလးေတြလုပ္ရတာ ၾကိဳက္တဲ့အတြက္အစ္မကိုယ္တိုင္ဝတ္တဲ့အေနအထား ဆိုရင္လက္ဝတ္ရတနာျပခ်င္ ရင္ေျဗာင္ဒီဇိုင္းအက်ီၤေလး ကိုေရြးဝတ္တယ္။အဓိက Point ကေက်ာက္ကိုေဖာ္ျပခ်င္တဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ေပါ့။ ဒါကေတာ့အမရဲ ့Fashion အျမင္တစ္စိတ္ တစ္ေဒသေပါ့။ အဲဒီကေနသဘာဝအတိုင္း ပံုစံမပ်က္ပံုေဖာ္ထားတဲ့ဒီဇိုင္းေလးေတြ ဝတ္ဆင္လို႔ရတယ္ဆိုတဲ့sense မ်ဳိးေလးေပးခ်င္တာပါ။အမဖန္တီးတဲ့ accessories လက္ဝတ္လက္စားေတြကိုဝတ္ရတဲ ့အစ္မရဲ႕မိတ္ေဆြေတြ၊ customerေတြကေတာ့ပြဲေတြမွာသူတို ့စိတ္ျကုက္ Fashion တစ္ခုအေနနဲ႔ဝတ္ၾကတာေတြ ့ရပါတယ္။
ေက်ာက္မ်က္အၾကမ္းထည္ေတြကိုပံုေဖာ္ျပီးလုပ္ဝတ္တဲ့ Fashion ကျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွာဘယ္ေလာက္ထိလႊမ္းမိုးမႈရွိမယ္ လို႔အစ္မထင္လဲ။ ဒီလိုကေတာ့အစ္မတို႔နိုင္ငံမွာသိပ္မလုပ္ၾကေသးတဲ့အတြက္တစ္ကယ္ထိုးေဖာက္နိုင္ေအာင္လုပ္နိုင္ရင္ေတာ့ေကာင္းတာေပါ့ေနာ္။အမအေနနဲ႔လည္းတခ်ို ့ပြဲေတြ၊ ကိုယ္ဝတ္ခ်င္တာေလးေတြေလာက္ပဲလုပ္ေပးျဖစ္တယ္။တစ္ကယ့္ကို ထဲထဲ ဝင္ဝင္လုပ္ျဖစ္ေအာင္
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အတိတ္ကိုျပန္ၾကည့္ရင္ဘယ္လိုဖန္တီးမႈမ်ဳိးကအစ္မအတြက္အေအာင္ျမင္ဆံုးျဖစ္ခဲ့လဲသိပါရေစ။
အစ္မ Vietnam ကိုသြားျပီးေတာ့ အထည္ေပၚမွာပန္းခ်ီဆြဲတဲ့ ပညာကိုတစ္ပတ္ေလ့လာခဲဖူး့တယ္။အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ကသူတို႔ရဲ႕ပိတ္စေပၚမွာ ဘယ္လိုေဆးေတြသံုးျပီးဘယ္လိုလုပ္လဲဆိုတာအဓိကေလ့လာနိုင္ခဲ့တယ္။ ျပန္ေရာက္ေလ့လာခဲ ့တာေတြကို Solo Art Fashion အျဖစ္အဝတ္ေပၚမွာပန္းခ်ီဆြဲတဲ ့Theme မ်ိုး ခ်ျပခဲ ့တယ္။အဲ ့လိုခ်ျပီးမွတ္မွတ္ရရ ေရာင္းတန္းေတြမွာ အဝတ္ေပၚေဆးဆြဲတဲ့ေဆးပန္းခ်ီ ထည္ေတြအမ်ားၾကီးထြက္လာတယ္။ေနာက္ မခိုင္အကယ္ဒမီရတဲ့ႏွစ္မွာႏွ င္းဆီခက္အက်ီီကေနခႏၶာကိုယ္ကိုပတ္ျပီးႏြ ယ္ျပီးဆင္းသြား တဲ့ပံုေလးဖန္တီးေပးခဲ့တယ္။ အကယ္ဒမီေပးပြဲျပီးတာနဲ႔တစ္ပတ္အတြင္းမွာဘဲအမဒီဇိုင္းကအေရာင္းတန္းမွာျပန္႔သြားတယ္။ ဒါကေတာ့စီးပြားေရးအတြက္လည္းေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ကိုယ္တီထြင္ခဲ့တာအတြက္မွတ္မွတ္ရရေပါ့ေနာ္။ကိုယ္ထြင္လိုက္တဲ့ဒီဇိုင္း ကေပါက္သြားတဲ့အတြက္ပီတိလည္းျဖစ္ရပါတယ္။
မိသားစုကလည္းအေရးၾကီးဆံုး အစိတ္အပိုင္းမွာပါဝင္တဲ့အတြက္ အစ္မအေနနဲ႔အလုပ္နဲ႔မိသားစုၾကားအခ်ိန္ကို ဘယ္လိုစီမံလဲသိပါရေစ။ အစ္မတီထြင္ဖန္တီးမႈမွာေကာ မိသားစုက ဘယ္လိုအားျဖည့္ေပးလဲရွင့္။
ဒါကေတာ့အစ္မတင္မဟုတ္ပဲတျခားလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ေတြအတြက္လဲမိသားစုကေျပလည္ျပီးပံ့ပိုးမႈရွိမွတို႔ကအလုပ္ေကာင္း ေကာင္းလုပ္ လို႔ရမွာပါ။အစ္မအတြက္ဆိုရင္အိမ္မႈကိစၥနဲ႔ အိမ္ဖက္ပိုင္းမွာအေမရွိလို႔သာအေနနဲ႔အလုပ္အတြက္အခ်ိန္ပိုရတယ္ပါ။ အမ်ဳိးသားကလည္း အစ္မျဖစ္ခ်င္တာအကုန္လိုက္ေလ်ာကူညီေပးျပီးသမီးေလးကလည္းအမျဖစ္ေစခ်င္တဲ့အတိုင္း ျဖစ္ေအာင္ၾကိဳးစားေပးတဲ့အတြက္ သားသမီးေကာင္းျခင္းကလည္းရွိတာေပါ့ေနာ္။ဒါေျကာင့္အစ္မလုပ္ေနတဲ့လုပ္ငန္းကလည္း အားလံုးပံ့ပိုးမႈေကာင္းလို ႔ေအးေဆးလုပ္နိုင္တာပါ။ အေနာက္ဖက္မွာမိသားစုအဆင္မေျပတာေတြရွိရင္ဒီေလာက္ထိေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္လုပ္နုိင္မွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အဓိကကေတာ့ မိသားစုဘဝသာယာလို႔ပါ။
အစ္မရဲ႕ဒီလုပ္ငန္းေတြနဲ႔ပက္သက္လို႔အနာဂါတ္အစီအစဥ္ေတြလဲေျပာျပေပးပါဦး။
အစ္မရည္မွန္းခ်က္ေတြေတာ့အမ်ားၾကီးပါ။ အစ္မအခ်ိန္တစ္ခုကိုေတာ့ေစာင့္ေနတယ္။အမသမီးေလးေက်ာင္းျပီးရင္ေတာ့ သမီးေလးနဲ႔ ၂ေယာက္ေပါင္းျပီး Brand တစ္ခုၾကိဳးစားထုတ္ဖို႔ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိပါတယ္။ တစ္ကယ္ျဖစ္လာရင္ေျပာပါ့မယ္။
(English Version)
Tell us briefly about your life before becoming a fashion designer.
Before I became a designer, I did not know I was interested in fashion. However, I was very much into drawing since I was young. My mother had sewing classes so I was always in touch with this field of making clothes. After tenth grade, I told my mother I did not want to continue my education and just work for her. She believed I should have a degree so I was studying and working at the same time. After I graduated, I started working in fashion full time.
Tell us about your creative process.
I am not sure if it is because I am into art and drawing but for example, I like flowers to be in twisted shapes instead of just normal flower drawings. With design, I like them in interesting shapes. Ever since I joined this field, I have been designing the embroidery in unconventional shapes. I would sketch them down when my inspiration strikes. I am starting to like antique lately and I have been studying and creating accessories that are not available yet in Myanmar. My sister has studied accessory design in Bangkok and has opened a store selling gemstones there. I am learning from her whenever I have time too.
How did you get into creating with attached stones aside for designing clothes?
I created some clothing design that used attached stones by using wild jade in an International show. I treated those stones and used in that show. I would like to give the sense to the people who wear these designs that they are wearing unique designs.
Most of the people think that clothing from fashions shows are not suitable out of runway. What is your view on it?
I don’t have much view on it. My shows are made with specific designs with target audience in mind and I want them to be wearable for the public. Sometimes, Fashion shows are just a way for fashion designers to show off their creativity.
What kind of stones do you use when you create accessories? How did you source those stones?
I don’t like treated stones and prefer the shapes of stones of its natural state. I like cut nature wild stalactites, and fossils especially. Main wild stones that I am using are coral, Lapis Lazuli၊ Petrified wood၊ Blue Lace Agate၊ Black Agate၊ Pearl, Gray Shell, Seashell, Blister Pearl, Ammonite stone, fluorite, lemon quartz, and green lace agate, jade. I source those stones from Poko Gallery which is owned by my sister in Bangkok. She shows me stone designs that I like as always. She also helps for the main part of the shows in using those stones.
As you create new design of those stone accessories, where do you get the inspirations for them? And which kind of feeling would you like to give to people who wear it?
As I believe inspiration is everywhere so I look from the internet and other sources for it. And I like doing things which is very different from usual so if I want to point out the beauty of stone accessories, I wear simple dresses. It can give the sense that you can wear natural shaped accessories. My friends and customers wear my accessories as fashion statement in different events.
Do you think untreated gemstones on fabric will become an influential fashion trend in Myanmar?
Since it is not widely produced in this country yet, it will be really good if we could penetrate the market. Currently, I designed them for myself and for the fashion shows. I am striving to produce them in full force. Since I love natural designs and shapes, I would make it happen eventually.
What is your biggest achievement in the past?
From my point of view, it would be my one week trip to Vietnam to learn about drawing on fabric. I mainly learnt the dyes to use to paint on fabrics. When I came back, I had my Solo Art Fashion Show. At the show, I showcased many designs that are drawn on the fabrics. I found out that many shops start to sell fabrics with drawings on it after the show. In the year Ma Khine ( Actress Khine Thin Kyi) got her academy award, she was wearing the dress I designed for her in the shape of rose with its stem wrapped around the body. Within a week, the design was sold in many fabric stores. It was really good for my business too. It was memorable because my design was such a hit.
As family is one of the most important in life so how you manage your time between your creations and your family? How does your family inspire you in your creative process?
Well, family is important not just me but for other business owners as well. You cannot work properly if your family life is not working out. My mother takes care of the household and my husband is encouraging in everything I do. My daughter also strives to achieve my hopes for her so I have very supportive family and I can really focus on my work. If I did not have a happy family life, I don’t think I would have been this successful. So getting happy family life is very, very important.
Any future plan for your business?
I have so many plans .I am waiting for a time when my daughter finishes her studies so that I can start a brand with her.
