Derrick Ooi is the founder of ‘Weird Things’, a thrift and vintage store in Subang Jaya. (Muhaimin Marwan @ FMT Lifestyle)PETALING JAYA: You never quite know what you’ll find while thrifting. One rack could hold a graphic T-shirt and a pair of 1970s bell-bottom jeans and the next, an item of Malaysian nostalgia you haven’t seen in years.
“I started thrifting around 2017. I liked experimenting with fashion and finding pieces that you wouldn’t see everyone else wearing. Thrifting was also cheaper,” Derrick Ooi, 37, told FMT Lifestyle.
After experiencing burnout following 15 years in the sports fashion industry, Ooi turned this passion into a business.
This year, he opened "Weird Things" in Subang Jaya, a follow-up to "Weird Space", which he opened in 2024 in Petaling Jaya. For him, running a thrift shop is about more than filling racks with second-hand clothes.
