Why not batik for IFF's London boutique?

VOXPOP 'Isn't our batik designs good enough to be promoted in other countries at the Islamic Fashion Festival?'

Rosmah spree: Blogger discloses email exchanges

Geronimo: No wonder the Malay culture is as good as gone. Instead of buying those expensive materials from Australia, what's wrong with our sarong kebaya, baju kurong and the fine selendang wear.

If it was meant for the Islamic Fashion Festival (IFF), don't you think it would be much better to highlight Malay dresses (which are far less expensive) with the various batik designs and in the process promoting the Malay culture as well?

So, Rosmah Mansor, stop fooling the public and stop taking us for idiots.

Anonymous: Look at those people rushing to get the RM500 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M) - how small is the amount compared to Rosmah's spending?

‘Lost-Mah', have you ever thought about the poor and the needy in this country?

Justicekini: During former Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's time, his late first wife promoted batik. Isn't ours good enough to be promoted in other countries? Why use Australian designs for IFF's London shop?

Rosmah must be a super saleswoman. Here her husband asks us to ‘Buy Malaysian' but he goes and stays in the best hotels, lets his wife go on spending sprees, then hands out RM500 to the Malaysian poor.

Pemerhati: After fashion journalist Patty Huntington wrote the story of Rosmah's estimated A$100,000 (RM325,000) purchases Carl Kapp sent her an SMS saying, "Thanks for the brilliant write-up!"

That alone strongly indicates that Huntington's story was essentially correct. If there were any errors, he would not have called the write-up brilliant but would have pointed out the errors.

But after the matter blew up and after Kapp sensed that he might lose a big client (big in more ways than one) he tried to cover up for Rosmah by disputing the A$100,000 dollar figure.

Rosmah's other lackeys and hangers-on also got into the act by coming out with statements that all the purchases were not made by her.

These lackeys and hangers-on were either most probably instructed by Rosmah to come up with the cock-and-bull stories or probably did it on their own to impress her so that in future she would drop more crumbs their way.

Sarawakian_3ff9: They can't spin this one. Everything fits, even all the dresses are of one size, I presume. The designer was bragging because this must have been a windfall to him, probably a whole year's worth of sales.

So the best thing to do is just shut up, pretend nothing happened and enjoy the dresses. But like the RM24 million diamond, she can only enjoy them in her own bedroom because people will be paying attention to what she will be wearing from henceforth. Poor rich woman.

Little Han2: Like a once-upon-a-time dentist who saved his money to buy a RM3.5 million Balinese villa and the fact that if a woman can save enough to buy a RM24 million diamond ring, I am sure A$100,000 dresses are loose change.

We must all learn to save like them.

Bloggergurl: Here is an interesting write-up about the penthouse at The Darling. - Malaysiakini