A young lady with a great vision and big plans, Izzana Salleh gets personal with Rubini Kamalakaran
The youngest and the only daughter in the family, Izzana can be said, is doubly loved. She adores her older brothers whom she's quick to defend even when she personally outs them for bullying her when growing up. "Oh, but only in a loving way," she smiles, her dimples appearing. "They took great care of me but being brothers, they also bullied me. When I was about 3 or 4 years old and a tubby toddler at that, my brothers would have me lie down and roll me from one to the other. They had me convinced that I was a ball," she laughs, recalling and eventually credits them for most of her happiest and funniest moments growing up. Now in their prime, the occasional banter notwithstanding, the siblings are the symbol of firm kinship. Usually, with either one of her brothers by her side, Izzana can be spotted at social calls and there's also the fact that they're working together which keeps them in close quarters. |
After graduating, she went on to work at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which is a non-profit medical research organisation that plays an important role in advancing biomedical research in the us, where she focused on colorectal cancer research. "I worked in a laboratory that studies the DNA damage response and dna repair mechanisms in various human tumour cell models. A majority of the work in this laboratory was focused on the signalling of programmed cell death and cell cycle control by DNA damage." |
Changing from one outfit into the next, her hair transformed to old Hollywood, and then slicked back, Izzana admits she hasn't really attempted a different look. She's used to minimal make-up, her hairstyle kept simple and Bohemian. Before she entered the corporate world, Izzana lets slip that she was all about the ‘Bohemian rhapsody'. "My friends can attest to this, I was all long Bohemian skirts and garlands of ethnic chains," she grins. These days however, Izzana can be found in the total opposite, primarily corporate gear consisting of shirts, pants and kebayas for social calls. Her favourite designers for her kebayas are Rizalman for being classic and never out of style, and Jovian Mandagie for the amazing bone structure in his corsets. She adores kaftans as well, especially those from Tom Abang Saufi, whom she compliments for never failing with her pick-me-up colours, no zips and buttons. There's one item that she's obviously not short of too, judging from the bag of shoes she wheeled in with her. "I get a lot of my shoes from Yiu Lin," she reveals, referring to another dynamic Malaysian entrepreneur who owns the successful shoe boutique, Shoes Shoes Shoes. |
As the day begins to turn dark, Izzana is putting on her last outfit for the photoshoot, the Ferragamo. We wrap up after a few takes, thanking our lucky stars that she's so effortless in front of the camera so we can finish earlier than planned. But Izzana's mind is already working - a norm for her we suspect - gauging how much time she's got before she has to be at the event. Just enough time to get dressed, have her face touched up and pack, it turns out. Her ride waits outside of the hotel for her. Strangers around her are doing double takes as she sweeps by them and loads one of her bags in the car as the driver handles the other.A minute later, they are off straight into Friday night traffic. There was talk of another trip to Singapore in a couple of days; it is going to be a hectic schedule until the restaurants are shipshape but Izzana knows that we are the total sum of our life's experiences, and she's only in the early stages. *********************************************************** This is the girl that her mother's lover now their lawyer wanted to screw. |
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