Every career had to start somewhere. As for me, I didn’t start with hobbies like sewing or knitting. Like every other girl, I am a major shopaholic for as long as I could remember but because I loved clothes and accessories which were unique and fashionably loud, I started doing my own accessories, and altering clothes to my own desire and that fits my small figure. I’ve had random people that come up to me asking where I got my clothes from; and how they like the accessories I’ve done. I was even featured in TV3’s Remaja for Japanese-style dressing in the year 2000.
     My first attempt of fashion design was when I designed my senior year prom dress and from there, I started using my graphic design skills on shirts, and started selling my merchandises on the net, such as my personal web domain (osixnine.com), eBay Malaysia, selltrade_kl, and PurpleMascara; Malaysia’s only shopaholics community on LiveJournal. One of my designs even got nominated into Threadless.com!
     The birth of 'OSIXNINE' was expected by then. On my 20th birthday - July 22nd, 2006, I single-handedly organized 'OSIXNINE talks fashion' event, a fashion blog launch at Bond Bar, Kuala Lumpur which also previewed my first t-shirt collection named "kuzizumoo" marks the birth of the brand "OSIXNINE" in front of 300 invited guests and VIPs. After a few months of massive planning and a number of headaches, on December 8th 2006, OSIXNINE boutique located in SS15, Subang Jaya opened it's doors to public. Ever since it's opening, we've been getting very good responses; OSIXNINE was featured in KLue's April 2007 issue and also on NTV's Life Sessions. I, on the other hand, was chosen as one of the finalist for AYA Dream Malaysia Awards 2006 and KLue's Blue Chilli Awards 2007.     
     My hopes for the near future is to extend my fashion business as much as I can, and set a good example to the youths that anything is possible if you dare to dream. Having said that, my ultimate goal is to get Gwen Stefani to wear my design!

Basic Info
Name ; Yasmeen Zainal Abidin
Age ; 21 years old
Date of Birth ; 22nd July 1986
Hometown ; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Family ; father, Zainal Abidin Husin
                    mother, Azizah Zainal Abidin
                    sister, Sarah aka Saer Ze - singer/songwriter/music producer. also the other half of Catapult:Creative
Qualifications ; Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (2003)
                                     Diploma in Graphic Design - School of Audio Engineering (SAE) Malaysia
                                     Currently undertaking Diploma in Fashion & Retail Design in Lim Kok Wing University College
Personal Interests ; Fashion, Web & Graphic Design, Music, Performing, Dancing, Travelling.

Achievements
Co-owner of OSIXNINE fashion boutique at SS15, Subang Jaya
Co-owner of Catapult : Creative, a multimedia company (music production & fashion)
Assistant Art Director for Anuar Zain’s album (2007) cover design
Organizer of OSIXNINE’s fashion event @ Bond, Avenue K (22^nd July ‘06) – 300 pax
Organizer of ‘[B] Mastaz Challenge’ breakdance competition@MCities, KL(Feb ‘01) –900 pax
Organizer of ‘J-Style’ (fashion show / music event) @ Factory, KL (April 21^st, 2001)
Finalist for Seventeen magazine’s Starsearch Competition 2006
Finalist for AYA Dream Malaysia Awards 2006
Finalist for KLue Blue Chilli Awards 2007
OSIXNINE participating sponsors for ‘Hearts n Lightbulbs’ Charity event @ Laundry Bar
OSIXNINE featured in KLue magazine’s April 2007 issue
OSIXNINE featured in NTV7’s Life Sessions (2007)
OSIXNINE featured fashion spread in Frenz magazine 1^st issue (July 2007)
OSIXNINE featured in Campus Plus magazine December 2006 issue.
OSIXNINE featured during Pulse – The Rhythm of Fashion event @ Zouk KL (2007)
OSIXNINE featured in News Straits Times on October 29, 2006
OSIXNINE’s ‘kuzizumoo’ shirt design nominated on Threadless.com
Featured MySpace user in News Straits Times – with 15,000 friends (Oct. 29^th, 2006)
Host for first MySpace event in Malaysia @ Atmosphere, KL ( August 21^st, 2004)
Guest judge for MMU’s talent time “got talent?” audition @ MMU Cyberjaya (2007)
Featured in School of Audio Engineering (SAE) Malaysia’s promo ads
Featured in TV3’s ‘Remaja’ (2000)
Featured in TV2’s ‘Interesteens’ (2004)
Saer Ze’s stylist for AIM 2006 Awards
Stylist / Art Director for Saer Ze’s ‘Too Sexy’ music video.
Saer Ze’s official website (www.saerze.com) webmaster.
Saer Ze’s ‘Shameless’ album cover designer
Stylist for ‘J-Style’ event at Factory Club, KL.
Website design for The Competency Centre for Energy Industry Sdn. Bhd