Malaysian artist releases his new street-wear collection with Vans! (2020)
Channel: Spotlight News Malaysia
Date: 2020-04-20

This Malaysian man launches a head-to toe collection with Vans! Kide Baharudin is a local artist from Kuala Pilah. "It all started when I won the Vans Asia Custom Culture competition in 2017 in Malaysia." 

He continued to keep in touch with the team from Vans Malaysia and eventually got commissioned to create a postcard for an international Vans meeting . 

"One day, I got an Instagram private message from a person from the Vans global team asking if they could buy my artwork." he said. "My style always includes a lot of figures. 

Growing up in Kuala Pilah, I would ride around the town in my bicycle a lot. I would imagine how life would have been like in the 50s, 60s and 70s and I used what I imagined to create art." 

Kide's art is highly inspired with Malaysian culture and how people used to live back when his parents were younger. Back in Kuala Pilah, drawing and painting was not considered as a succesful career. 

 "I want to show everyone that art can be a professional career as well. You just have to encourge talent. Give them a chance and you just never know where it could lead them to," -  Kide, 2020