Closet Confidential

We got Singapore’s most-admired fashion mavens to spill on their favourite style moments.

- Marie Wee

wendy long

From the pieces she picked for this interview and photoshoot with A Magazine, it’s clear that Wendy Long lives and breathes high fashion. For this real estate and equities investor, fashion is like “wearable, interactive art that serves as our canvas for individual expressionism”. And one artist she admires is none other than Anthony Vaccarello, creative director of storied French brand Saint Laurent.

In fact, she still describes the Saint Laurent show during Paris Fashion Week in September 2018 as one of her most stylish moments. She’d arrived at the store in Avenue Montaigne and snagged a little black dress from its AW18 collection (left, bottom). With a giant flourish at the neck that shrouded half the face, it was chic yet mysterious.

The next day, Long wore it to Saint Laurent’s after-party — and was spotted by the artisans who’d made her dress. They’d produced only three pieces, and envisioned an Asian wearing it! Over cocktails, Long’s new friends confided further that it was incredibly satisfying to see their work worn by someone who had fun in it, and not kept it like a museum artefact.