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Who is Lihuà (Wong Lai Wah)?
Lihuà is the professional name of Wong Lai Wah, a Malaysian watercolour artist and fashion illustrator born in Kedah and based in Kuala Lumpur. She founded her atelier in 2010, joins the brushwork of Chinese calligraphy with Western watercolour, and is the lead artist of WM Arte Gallery.
She studied illustration at The One Academy (diploma, 2011) and Design and Visual Communication at Birmingham City University (BA, 2016), and lectures in fashion illustration at Esmod Kuala Lumpur. Her subjects are mostly women and fashion silhouettes.
Her clients include Bulgari, Christian Louboutin, Chanel, Chaumet, Dior, Longines, Hugo Boss, Balmain, Monsoon, Aspinal of London, Faber-Castell, Steve Madden, Giuseppe Zanotti, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz and Airbnb. Chanel first commissioned her around 2016; through WM Arte's partnership with Phillus she illustrated for Chanel's 2026 Haute Couture collection.
Her main collections are Daydreams (142 watercolours, shown in 2024), Busana Malaysia (22 works on Malaysian dress, 2023) and Strokes of Fashion (38 runway and icon portraits, 2021).
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