Azrina holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Taylor’s University, Malaysia and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. After nearly two decades of working in the banking industry, she decided to return to her first love, fashion, a subject matter that she has had an affinity with since childhood. Azrina loves working and creating with textiles and turning them into chic, wearable art. Her tastes in fashion and art were influenced from her childhood and teenage days in London, Gothenburg, and Melbourne, where she would spent her days scouring the cities with barely any adult supervision. 

Azrina’s prior background include working with Bank Negara Malaysia as a policy maker. She observed that while batik is one of Malaysia’s cultural heritage, not many in the private sector would wear batik to work or for casual wear on a daily basis due to its bright colours and heavy motifs. She saw this as a gap in the market and began working with Ar. Yez Yusof, an architect and former partner of batikTEKTURA to develop more minimalist and refrained batik motifs that would be suitable in the office context, and for any casual and relaxed outings. She worked with trained batik artisans to produce batik  using the traditional techniques of batik terap (handblocked) which gives the batik fabrics an even more raw and edgy look which complements batikTEKTURA’s architectural batik motifs.

In October 2025, Azrina was selected as a recipient of the Khazanah ACE2 Heritage Textile Fellow 2025 by Yayasan Khazanah and Yayasan Hasanah, for her innovative work in continuing batik traditions in the daily lifestyles on Malaysians. Together with 9 other recipients of the fellowship, Azrina was given the opportunity to undergo an immersive textile programme in Turkiye for 22 days from 14 November to 5 December 2025. During the programme, she observed the Turkish textile traditions and heritage that has been preserved over centuries, and received hands-on learning in Turkish traditional weaving and sewing from Sabancy Olgunlasma Enstituleri in Istanbul and Karsiye, which are institutions known for their high level of Turkish craftsmanship. She also visited the Textile Faculty of the University of Karsiye and various women’s cooperatives to further observe the involvement of women and training of rural communities in Turkish crafts.

bATIKTEKTURA biggest clients to date include CIMB Group and Lumut Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd where Azrina collaborated with architects to design their corporate uniforms. 

Azrina has also given various educational, business and cultural talks to the public (see list below). She has also collaborated with ASTRO Awani to provide batik wardrobe for its news anchors and partnered with Irama Studios to provide over 40 outfits for the musicians and ushers at Konsert Apresiasi Irama Keroncong Malaysia, held at Istana Budaya in August 2023, which was headlined by Dato’ Awie and Dato’ Khatijah Ibrahim.

List of Talks:

• Fashion Talk – KWAP (December 2023)
• Tactile Modernism: Balancing Vernacular Roots with Contemporary Branding – UITM, Puncak Alam Kampus (April 2026)