Never Follow Suit

The concept store ran by stylist Victor Goh and local designer Max Mak is not your run of a mill Telawi boutique.
This extremely charming shop is decorated split into three sections each with its own theme. One room is entirely furnished with vintage item, the other has a wall made from newspapers. If there’s an award for most creative use of newspaper, Never Follow Suit would be the winner.
The offerings include vintage and second-​hand clothes, Never Follow Suit house label and local designer Max Mak’s design, both men and womenswear.

Bangsar Telawi is a treasure trove for little boutiques most of which peddle similar, cute but slightly overpriced clothing and accessories to the unsuspecting customer which makes it very easy to pass of Never Follow Suit as yet another novelty boutique that works great in terms of concept but falls short in execution. This is where you would be mistaken. The brainchild of a collective of top KL stylists, the expansive boutique is made up to look like an old, slightly chaotic curiosity shop and is divided between three distinctly different spaces. From a modernist room decorated primarily in white with plenty of floor space to a nook that looks like a hippie den, complete with a wall decorated with scattered magazine clippings and pop culture paraphernalia, this boutique features reworked vintage designs, dramatic and modern monochromatic designs and impeccably tailored menswear, most of which are designed by some of KL’s leading contemporary, up-​and-​coming designers. This is a great place for clotheshorses with a taste for the unexpected and the unique

The starting point of one of Malaysia’s foremost menswear designer, Joe Chia. The shop is, in short of a proper term, super cool. It consists of modern and vintage clothing, pops of color here and there but aside from that, everything is pretty much black, white or grey. Consisting of local designers as well as a few international ones.
The collections are quirky, dark, mysterious and fun. I would always come here if I am ever looking for any ideas or ways to style my own clothing or if I want to find some statement pieces to pair with my existing clothes. Most of the pieces here are very well designed and extremely well tailored. I absolutely love it there because if you ever need your hem shortened by an inch or two, they could do it on the spot at their mini studio while you sit and wait over a cup of coffee, or in my case, warm water. The people working there are also very warm and always smiling.
The store has rustic feel to it with candles and skulls everywhere you look. I love the huge white wooden display table in the center of the showroom, which pulls the space together really well. Props for interior, most definitely.