The French Floral Artist Aude Giraud Introduces Her Second Act As A Creative

In 2015, the parisian modern-day Bohemian Aude Giraud uprooted to Singapore then launched the flower-focused lifestyle business ask a French, which helped start the trend for bucolic-chic arrangements and has since become an industry favourite. Last month, she introduced her second act as a creative:

The New School

From an altruistic champion of independent photographers to a fine dining restaurant curating art and music like no other, Keng Yang Shuen curates the people and spaces encouraging new ways of thinking and doing in Singapore’s art scene.

Put Your Best Face Forward This Festive Season

Targeting fine lines and sagging skin, Thermage FLX uses radiofrequency to help boost collagen production to lift and tighten.

Fortune Favours The Boh

Fashion PR, writing, modelling – bohan qiu has tried his hand at all of them. In a way, the Shenzhen-born 26-year-old exemplifies the contemporary fashion multi-hyphenate with his latest turn being the entrepreneur behind boh project, a PR and digital content agency based in Shanghai. Founded last year, the company is already staking a claim in the chinese fashion scene, counting clients that range from giants (calvin klein, selfridges) to emerging names. Among the latter is the fashion and art presentation platform Xcommons, which made global headlines in march for producing a virtual reality presentation for the chinese labels Xu Zhi, Andrea Jiapei Li and Roderic Wong, and garnering over 4.8 million visits within the first day. So who better to speak to for insights into the fascinating, fast-moving and growing chinese fashion industry?

A Fall/ Winter 2020 Collection Report

(And some of the asian models who commanded the season’s runways)

Tiger tiger, burning bright

FELIPE OLIVEIRA BAPTISTA IS REMAKING KENZO FOR A MODERN AGE, TAPPING AS MUCH INTO THE ARCHIVES AS ITS FOUNDING JAPANESE DESIGNER’S ETHOS OF CULTURAL CURIOSITY FOR HIS DEBUT THIS SEASON. GORDON NG REPORTS ON HOW HE’S CONTINUING KENZO TAKADA’S LEGACY.

Are Virtual Models And Influencers Really The Next Frontier In Fashion?

Virtual models and influencers – 3-d creations that exist only in images and software – have begun to obscure the lines of fiction and reality. Gordon Ng reports on what is quite possibly fashion’s next frontier.

Singapore 's Animation Industry Is Small, But Thriving. Here, Seven Artists To Know

If the world of fashion – and content creation in general – is finally waking up to the limitless potential of animation, well here are seven names to know: based in Singapore, they work across a diverse range of styles – 2-d, 3-d, motion graphics and more. By Keng Yang Shuen.

The Aesthete Treatment

As we spend more time at home, how beautiful one’s makeup and skincare products look on the vanity table matters as much as how beautiful they make one look. Aileen lalor gets into the aesthetics business of a different sort.

The Doctor Is In

They might not have the same glossy life, stylish instagram content and rabid following as the likes of michelle phan and huda kattan, but a band of myth-busting, info-wielding scientists are fast raking up the “hearts” on social media particularly during these troubling times. Aileen lalor explores the rise of these alternative beauty influencers – and what it could mean for the industry.

Maisie Williams Is Coming

For Eight Years, The British Actress Was One Of Television's Most Beloved Sword-wielding, Baddie-slaying Teenage Anti-heroines. Her Next Big Act: Mutant, Producer, Champion For Up-and-coming Creatives And Possibly The Next Most Powerful Woman In Entertainment And The Arts. Keng Yang Shuen Gets An Exclusive Close-up.

Why Does Community Matter?

It might be one of the words most overused in recent fashion history to help sell a brand or product. But if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that shared beliefs and a sense of belonging can make an impact (and warm the cockles of the heart). Launched in the middle of the excess-loving ’80s, Cartier’s pasha de Cartier was a striking interpretation of the aggressively masculine sporty watches that were taking off at the time. Its case was sumptuously round when most designs on the market were geometric and its can’t-miss-it crown came with an idiosyncratic chain-link cap. This month, it returns to stores – available in 35mm and 41mm in handsome gold or cool steel. And to mark the occasion, the french maison has assembled an unlikely tribe of discipline-spanning celebrity ambassadors whose common denominators are their youth, success and non-conformist streak. Here, an exclusive look at – and message from – this radical pack.

You Say You Want A Revolution?

As with nearly everything else, the fashion industry is undergoing a reckoning and plenty of self-questioning at the moment. How are we going to arrive at answers? No one quite knows, but we thought probing the minds of some of Singapore’s most lucid alternative – and in some cases little-heard – voices on the scene here might help. Keng Yang Shuen reports.

What To Make Of Creative Directors Today?

When tie-ups and three-year-long creative director stints have become the norm in fashion, moncler bucks the trend by hiring the jil sander/phoebe philo-trained veronica leoni (opposite) as the women’s creative director of its 2 moncler 1952 line. (one of only two ranges under the brand’s moncler genius project that’s not by a guest collaborator, it had been designed by the in-house team until her appointment last year.) ahead of the launch of her third collection this month, gordon ng gets an exclusive with this understated ‘insider’b on why a role like hers remains pivotal.

Can We Do Without The Hype?

Yoon Ahn is something of a generational definer with a firm place in both the intensely masculine world of streetwear as co-founder of the label ambush and the historically bourgeois realm of high fashion as jewellery director at dior homme. Now, she’s teamed up with bvlgari on a reinterpretation of its signature serpenti forever handbag. Gordon ng probes this extremely in-demand creative’s mind on the future of collaborations and building a business on hype.

What Do People Really Want From Luxury Fashion?

Singapore-based blogger Bagaholicboy, who’s been educating people on how to shop and chronicling “our never-ending quest” for the best designer bags and “life’s little luxuries” on his eponymous website since 2007, gives his take.

Should One Even Consider Fashion School?

As a founding member of the Singapore art-meets-streetwear label mash-up, co-host of the fashion-focused podcast ‘in the vitrine’, researcher, curator and fashion lecturer at lasalle college of the arts Daniela monasterios tan offers some wise words.

Face Time

Has work-from-home culture taken the magic out of women’s makeup routines (and the cosmetics industry in general)? Beauty buff Aileen Lalor zooms in on what covid has meant for the lipstick effect.

Understanding Breast Cancer

Cancer is a condition where abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue.

What Is Home, Truly?

Three Singapore female artists show us their interpretation.

Breast Cancer: Landscape and Perceptions of Younger Women

Young women may think that they are too young to get cancer. They are likely to be busy with their career, marriage or setting up a new family. Cancer awareness remains low on their list of priorities. So when it hits, the blow might come even harder.

What The Female Team Is Into Now

What The Female Team Is Into Now

l.A. Confidential

The buzzy pop culture-influenced, candy colour-loving multimedia artist alex israel has made his hometown of los angeles both his muse and subject. Last year, he got to apply his dreamy vision to fragrance packaging when louis vuitton introduced cologne perfumes, a triptych of evocative scents inspired by America’s golden state. As the brand continues the tie-up with a fourth scent, california dream, revealed this month, keng yang shuen gets the exclusive from israel on his perennial love affair with la – and evolving one with perfumes and collaborations.

Notions Of Intimacy

One’s the young danish designer charming industry insider types with her pretty, artisanally made dresses that fuse the child-like with the conceptual. The other is the Singapore footwear label that’s gone from fast-fashion favourite to global titan in just over two decades. Who would have thought that cecilie bahnsen would be Charles & Keith’s first designer collaborator? Yet as she and emmanuelle macedriskill – the shoe brand’s executive director of planning & product strategy – tell keng yang shuen, this recently launched coupling could just be the way forward with its rewriting of femininty and environmentally conscious ethos.

Down The Rabbit Hole

Singapore artist howie kim translates fantastical, almost trippy pop cultureinfluenced imagery through digital drawings, animated videos and more recently, ar (augmented reality) filters – and now he’s birthed female’s first illustrated cover. Keng Yang Shuen talks to this digital-era boy wizard about his obsession with famous people, embrace of millennial stereotypes and the importance (or irrelevance) of being “real” today.

A Head-To-Toe Care Package

What’s pretty much the cancellation of the mid-year holiday season makes some personal pampering all the more necessary. The best part? The release of a bumper crop of products that lets one treat everything from the tresses to thighs all without having to leave home. Sofia kim curates 15 that’ll help you master the fine, 2020 diy art of self-care.

Ace Of Base

Without them, model layla ong might have never walked for gucci; the cult label youths in balaclava might not look as cool; and, well, some of the stuff you see in this magazine might never have materialised. Keng yang shuen gets 10 usually unseen forces (all women, by the way) who deserve the award for best supporting role in our fashion industry today to step into the spotlight.

Addams Family Values

With its dark yet romantic, counterculture roots, gothic fashion has long offered an escapist source of inspiration for designers. Now a growing crop of young, independent labels are making it their soul and putting a spell on critics and customers alike. Keng yang shuen spotlights the ones to know.

Rock ‘N' Roll Never Dies

Italian maison Bvlgari’s distinctive b.Zero1 collection disrupted the way luxury jewellery should look like when it debuted in 1999 with its graphic, geometrical curves inspired by the colosseum, all created with the brand’s proprietary tubogas technique. Since then, it’s only undergone some of the most modern transformations – from an unexpected mix of materials to that zaha hadid adaptation. So how does a rebel celebrate turning 21 this year? Get its most daring makeover of course. Dubbed b.Zero1 rock, this update boasts a nine-piece unisex line comprising rings, pendants, earrings and bracelets – all are easily identifiable by the studs across their central bands. As if that’s not bold enough, the yellow gold versions are girded with outer layers of pave diamonds and their pink gold counterparts with black ceramic. In conjunction with the line’s launch this month, female and bvlgari spotlight four local personalities who too have always played by their own rules and defied conventions.

Fiona Fuss - Singapore's Next Leading Actress

Meet Fiona Fussi the femme fatale spy, bond-worthy bombshell and old Hollywood ingenue all adorned in the latest pieces from the world of high jewellery. Meet Fiona Fuss, Singapore’s next leading actress. Noelle Loh goes in for a close-up.