THE STORYTELLERS

With their richly layered and thought-provoking works, these six print and digital media creators are creating new waves that impacted how we perceive fashion, culture and design.

- Syazil Abd Rahim

ALIA SORAYA FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, MULAZINE

There is something incredibly infectious about Alia Soraya. Her warm smile, her witty remarks or maybe it’s her talent in putting together engaging visuals and stories on a webpage called MulaZine, of which started as “an online archive page for people of the same interest to come back to” and now has turned into a pop-culture hub that is packed with an assortment of engaging contents – from fashion to music, art, literature and everything in between – and looked up by people of the creative industry, especially amongst the gen-zs and millennials. With more than 20 visionaries behind this body of work, you know MulaZine is not here to just exist, it’s here to create impacts – and it’s working.

How do you and your team decide what’s the next It thing to cover for MulaZine?

We’d start off with a get-together. Eat. Sit down. Then properly discuss what we think would be the best content for this year or month by way of telling each other’s personal stories. I’d usually tell them what I’m inspired by – my mind is a database of memories. Most of the time