At the beginning of this month we announced we would be presenting a collection of accessories during the first ever virtual edition of Lakme Fashion Week as winners of Circular Design Challenge award. Organising a fashion week in the midst of a pandemic is not...
And together with it our presentation of new collection of accessories. This time we worked not only with Malai but also with traditional mundu fabrics from Kerala and cyanotype print technique. We can't tell you much more prior to the show but stay tuned as...
Dear Coconut Lovers :-) We sincerely hope you are doing well and staying safe. Times are tough for small businesses such as ours and however we are happy for the benefits the lockdown brought to our planet we are also a little worried about the impact of...
Dear coconut lovers, seems like this year we'll really go coconuts together :-) on the 13th of February 2020 we emerged as winners of Circular Design Challenge as part of Lakme Fashion Week. This is an award run by R.elan and United Nations India evaluating sustainable...
Dear coconut lovers and followers of Malai, we are so thrilled to have reached 84% of our crowdfunding campaign goal today, thank you so much for your support! We have 15 more days to go and to collect the entire amount we pledged for (15000 Eur). We...
hello coconut lovers ! Our crowdfunding campaign in running and we are so glad for all the support we have received so far, thank you so much! We couldn't have reached 62% without your help. If you haven't supported us yet, there's still time to do...
Hello dear coconut lovers and believers in sustainability. The time has come for us to move the goals of our production to the next level. We have spent last 2,5 years researching what are the best ways to make Malai and perfecting our craft. However being located...
From gastronomic experiments to urban farming, this exhibition brings together the politics and pleasure of food to ask how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future. FOOD: Bigger than the Plate falls at a pivotal time where food...
This year in Milan you are able to see a lot of interesting project including one especially close to our heart. We have initiated collaboration with The University of Tomas Bata in Zlin last year when we conducted a workshop with students from Footwear design....
Malai story and products have been featured in the April issue of Harper's Bazaar India and we are so delighted! Thank you very much for your support. 44_Style_9 & 10...
And to continue our chain of luck experienced in the first two months of 2019 we are proudly announcing our nomination for the EDIBA international awards in category Talent of the year awarded to designers presenting in Czech Republic every year by Elle Decor. Thank you...
Malai has been nominated for the Grand Czech Design Award in category Discovery of the year. We have been selected into top 3 nominations in the category together with Nina Vaclavkova for project Offcuts and Veronika Janeckova for her project that developed compostable coffee capsules. The...
2019 here we go! Such a lovely first month for Malai. We are pleased and honoured to have been nominated for the Grands Czech Design Award in category Discovery of the Year 2018! Thank you Czech Design Award <3 and thanks to everybody who's been supporting...
News about the development at malai covered by Eva Sluneckova, editor at Marianne Bydleni magazine (Czech Republic), thank you :-) GII53BE4I.1_1%L257906366_2_127_1.screen mb1902 alternativní materiály ...
Yaaay! More than one month has passed since we joined the Designblock Prague festival and since then we've registered several features of our work and collaborations we've been working on. One of such is the collaboration on design of a biodegradable shoe made from Nuatan and...
We were pleased to be interviewed by lovely Rosella Stephen earlier this week. As an outcome of our conversation there is now an article in the weekend edition of The Hindu newspaper ( 15/12/2018) Yay! Pictures of products made by Eva Klabalova, Kazeto and Playbag are featured...
MATERIAL LIFE BY HARKIRAT KAUR ON NOVEMBER 22, 2018 Malai is a bio-composite material made from bacterial cellulose grown on agricultural waste sourced from the coconut industry in Southern India. It is sustainable and organic, a great substitute for leather. Read more here. ...
Insidecor is an internet platform dedicated to spreading word about everything great happening in design world. This platform is based in Czech Republic and really, it would be difficult to sum up all the areas it covers in one sentence. You'd better check it out...
Built with an aim to bolster and serve the textile fraternity, Fibre2Fashion Pvt. Ltd is a market driven B2B portal that marked its existence in the year 2000 and since then, has consistently been growing leaps and bounds. Here is the interview Fibre2Fashion conducted with us...
During the month of October we had a unique opportunity to conduct a 2-days long workshop with students of Footwear Design at the Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. We spent 2 lovely days talking about sustainability, materials, Indian cuisine and experimented a lot. Malai...
Czech Labels and Friends is a space concentrating on bringing together Czech and Slovak fashion. This concept store / gallery is situated in Chodov, Prague with more than 100 brands and designers who respect craft, enjoy creating and who think not only about themselves but...
October 2018 was a busy busy time for us at Malai. Lot of collaborations with exciting brands happened and we were so happy we found designers and brands open-minded enough and willing to experiment with new materials. From 25th till 29th of October we exhibited at...
We were honoured to show with All Things in Between Collective at the London Design Festival in September 2018. All Things in Between is a collective formed in 2015 by Daniela Toledo, Zuzana Gombosova and Dawn Bendick, this year joined by Berlin-based designed Sophie Rowley. Malai joined...
An article called Progress covering story of Malai and its founders Zuzana and Susmith. Thank you for supportive words and for keeping your fingers crossed for our development! :-) Article published in July's Issue of printed Dolce Vita magazine in czech language. Read the online version here....
Lovely feature at Czech Design platform. The article is a version of a one published earlier by Material Times Prague. Read more here Thank you !...
SLOU.cz is a project initiated by Kamila Boudova a sustainable fashion expert and educator based between Prague and Paris. Slou days is an event organised twice a year. It offers its visitor a glance and interaction with the alternative fashion scene, provides educational courses and workshops...
Our story has been covered by lovely reporters at the Kochi Deccan Chronicle, thank you! read the online version of the article here. ...
Playbag is fresh accessories brand based in Zlin, Czechia. It designs and makes purses, wallets, backpacks and more using wide range of materials. Playbag made a prototype of a wallet from Malai and is currently testing it :-) Look at the post => here <= ...
We are actively communicating with world's leading material libraries in order to bring Malai closer to you. You can find our samples in Czech Republic, Holland, France, China, USA, Spain, UK and India in these libraries : Materio Prague http://www.materioprague.cz/en/ Materio Paris https://materio.com/ Material Lab London ...