Myo Minn Soe
Thudhamma Mani Zawtadaya Myo Minn Soe | |
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မျိုးမင်းစိုး | |
 Myo Minn Soe at the ELIZA event | |
| Born | June 12, 1976 Mandalay, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Other names | မာမီစိုး |
| Alma mater | Yadanabon University |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Parent(s) | Aye Maung Tin Tin Mar |
Thudhamma Mani Zawtadaya Myo Minn Soe (Burmese: မျိုးမင်းစိုး, also spelt Myo Min Soe; born 12 June 1976) is a Burmese fashion designer with a decade-long experience in the Myanmar fashion industry.[1][2] He is best known for his extraordinary designs incorporating gold, rubies, diamonds, jewels.[3][4][5][6]
Myo Min Soe was awarded the medal of honor and title Thudhamma Mani Zawtadaya by President of Myanmar on 4 January 2019 for his exemplary donation and honourable sacrifices.[7]
Early life and education[edit]
Myo Minn Soe was born on 12 June 1976 in Mandalay, Myanmar to parent Aye Maung and his wife Tin Tin Mar. His mother Tin Tin Mar is a tailor who worked from home, showed him how to make clothes from a young age, and he quickly became hooked.[8] At that time, fashion designer did not mean much in Myanmar, they were usually called tailors. He is the eldest son of three siblings, having a younger sister and a younger brother.
Myo attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 16 Mandalay and graduated with Math from distance education at Yadanabon University in 2005. While still in university, he worked in fashion shop and study fashion.[9]
Career and fashion shows[edit]
Since he graduated from university, he started study to fashion design and becoming a designer.[10] He rising to fame when he designs were featured in a group fashion show and he attracted the attention of local fashion magazines. He has flourished as a fashion designer since 2007. He opened "Myo Minn Soe Design House", a work space and showcase for his silk and acheik designs.[11][12] Myo’s filigree work is popular in Myanmar and his creations range from K700,000 to K4 million over.[13]
Myo was selected to represent Myanmar at 2013 Bangkok International Fashion Week, 2014 Chiangmai Fashion Week, 2014 Nathern Logistic Fair, 2015 Hong Kong Fashion Week and many other international fashion festivals.[14][15] A prolific creator, he was showcased in over 120 fashion shows both locally and internationally.[1] Myo will over 10 year design costumes sponsored for Myanmar Academy Awards Ceremony and Academy Shwekyos, who will carry the golden trophies presented to Myanmar film Academy Award winners.[16]
He also takes part in fashion contests as a judge. As a well-respected designer, his designs are a staple in national fashion events. He believes in supporting other young designers, so he has created a scholarship which is promoting new talent.[17] He is planning to publish his designer life experiences.[18]
On 17 July 2018, Myo presented his fashion collection of 10 Htaingmathein at My Dream, Sedona wedding fair, in Yangon.[1] He currently serves as a visiting professor at National University of Arts and Culture, Mandalay and teaching costume design.
Expensive creation[edit]
His extravagant creations that are made of gold, diamonds, and jewelry.[19] One of which is a diamond shawl worth of over US$300000.
In 2017, he created expensive "golden dress" for actress Ei Chaw Po.[20]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Aung, Nandar (13 July 2018). "Getting to "yes" in Sedona". The Myanmar Times.
- ^ Zay Thu (27 April 2017). "ဒီဇိုင်းနာမျိုးမင်းစိုးရဲ့ အချိုးအကွေ့တွေက ဘာတွေလဲ". 7Day News. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုး အနုပညာရှင် ငါးဦးအတွက် အကယ်ဒမီဖက်ရှင်" (in Burmese). Kumudra. 26 February 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုး နှင့် စကားလက်ဆုံ" (in Burmese). Yati Magazine. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုး၏ ဖက်ရှင်ရေစီး သုံးသပ်ချက်" (in Burmese). The Voice Weekly. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "ဒီဇိုင်နာများပြောပြတဲ့ ၂၀၁ရမှာခေတ်စားလာမဲ့ ဖတ်ရှင်". Popular Journal. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "သိန်းထောင်ကျော်တန် ဝတ်စုံနဲ့ သုဓမ္မမဏိဇောတဓရဘွဲ့ယူခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုး". Ahtinkaya News (in Burmese). 29 March 2019. Archived from the original on 3 June 2019.
- ^ "မြန်မာမြေတွင် မြန်မာလို လှစေချင်" (in Burmese). Yatanarpon News. 10 October 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "ဖန်တီးသူတို့ရဲ ့အကယ်ဒမီဖက်ရှင် ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုး". Eleven Media Group. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "ရွှေဝတ်စုံကို လုံခြုံစွာ ဖန်တီးသွားမယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုး" (in Burmese). Thamagawall Media. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "အကယ်ဒမီမှာပေါက်တဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်းတွေပဲ နောက်တစ်နှစ်လုံးမှာ လုပ်ရတယ် ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုးနဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း" (in Burmese). Kumudra Journal. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "အကယ်ဒမီဖက်ရှင်" (in Burmese). 7Day News. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ Khin Su Wai (30 September 2014). "Mandalay has style all wrapped up". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "民族衣装をモダナイズ 台湾やミャンマーのデザイナーが伝統を世界へ". Fashion Snap (in Japanese). 30 January 2016.
- ^ Nan Su (3 October 2017). ""ဝါကျွတ်ကာလအတွက် တစ်ခါမှ မလုပ်ဖူးတဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်းလေးလုပ်ထားပါတယ်" ဒီဇိုင်နာ မျိုးမင်းစိုးနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခြင်း" (in Burmese). Kumudra. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "အကယ်ဒမီပွဲတတ် ဝတ်စုံနဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်နာတို့ရဲ့ အကယ်ဒမီလက်ရာ" (in Burmese). Popular Journal. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ Ei Moh Moh Khaing (31 January 2017). "Designer's Collection & Jewelers show in Mandalay" (in Burmese). Myanmar Digital. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "ဒီဇိုင်နာမျိုးမင်းစိုး ဘဝဖြတ်သန်းမှု စာအုပ်ထုတ်ဝေဖို့စီစဉ်နေ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ "သိန်း၂၀၀ကျော်တန် ရွှေထိုင်မသိမ်းကို ချုပ်လုပ်နေတဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်နာမျိုးမင်းစိုး" (in Burmese). Popular Journal. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "အိချောပိုအတွက် သိန်း၃၀၀တန် အကယ်ဒမီရွှေဝတ်စုံ ဖန်တီးနေတဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်နာမျိုးမင်းစိုး" (in Burmese). Popular Journal. Retrieved 29 May 2018.