Riot Grrrl Culture And Its Relevance Today

Amanda Lee Koe has been making waves with her stylish debut novel Delayed Rays of A Star, which imaginatively tracks and expands on the Ives of screen legends Marlene Iietrch, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstah As anyone who has read her works would I kely attest, Koe's characters tend to stray outside orthodox societal constructs, a trait that the colourful author shares and isn't afraid to speak out on. Hardcore punk she is not, says the 31 year old New York based Singaporean, but she did go through a riot grrrl phase in her teens and is "aligned with the • importance of individual freedom and radical female agency". (1h, and she oyes Joan Jett and Patti Smith.) So when she was recently back in Smngapore to promote her book, Keng Yang Shuen caught up with her to talk about her riot grrrl roots and how the punk inf uenced subculture st resonates with her.

Race Against The Machine

Perhaps it’s a reaction against the turbulent times that we’re living in (or we’re just secretly hankering for the return of alt-chic circa the 1990s). The biggest message on the fall/ winter 2019 runways: punk – or at least the look of it – is far from dead. Keng Yang Shuen highlights the anarchy and its loudest players.

First Of The Gang

Before Ginette Chittick became the fashion-forward indie queen of the local creative scene with her playful textile art works, britpop dj nights and shoegaze band astreal, she was part of singapore’s first all-girl punk band psycho sonique. here she educates keng yang shuen on singapore’s early punk scene – and what it meant for women then and now.

A Star Is Born

Her music can be described as post-post-pop punk and she has such a non-conformist, fashion-it-yourself punk attitude towards her image that by the time you read this, she might be on to a whole new look altogether. Keng Yang Shuen attempts to get into the head of Singapore's most visually arresting art pop chanteuse.

Collective Minds

To fully express their creative vision, these youths are banding together with like-minded friends, gathering their own resources, and writing their own rules. Some might call them anti-establishment. We call them the voice that singapore fashion needs to hear more of now. Keng Yang Shuen reports.

This Is Us

It’s the italian luxury label that millennials can’t get enough of, and that might have something to do with its pan-generational, omnidirectional creative director’s fashion philosophy: that identity is a personal construct, and clothes and accessories indeed maketh the man. Imran jalal previews gucci’s f/w ’19 collection in bangkok and singles out the pieces with the biggest personality.

The Shape Shifter

If fortune indeed favours the bold, bottega veneta looks set to flourish under the helm of its young and thoughtfully reckless new creative director daniel lee.

The Artist Is Present

She's the independent luxury jeweller who previously refused to be photographed so that her unorthodox designs wouldn't be overshadowed by her pedigree. With her next project, though, avoiding the spotlight could get a lot trickier. Lauren Khoo gets in front of the lens for the first time with female and reveals a side that gives a new ring to her family name: she's pretty freakin' cool.

Shye

Introducing the self-taught 17-year-old making idiosyncratic, gloriously dreamy Pop Music out of her own bedroom and who is quite possibly Singapore's most brilliant gen 1 musician yet.

Feel Beautiful This Festive Season

The doctors from the new Boris Valerie Plastic Surgery tell you five things you must know about botulinum toxin injections, which are touted as the answer to more youthful-looking skin.

Private Dining

The Latest Generation Of Edible Beauty Supplements Go The Way Of F&b Trends: Packed With More Nourishing Ingredients, Artisanal, Even Highly Personalised. Just How Do They Make A Recipe For Great Skin? Aileen Lalor Sinks Her Teeth In.

Brave New World

The Next Frontier In Eco-minded Fashion Labels: Anything But Your Beige, Earth-mother Clothes Of Yore That Score Big On Responsibility, But Zilch On Aesthetics. Keng Yang Shuen Rounds Up Six Rising Names Leading The Charge.

FANCY – THE NEW EDGY

It’s hard to ignore Gherardo Felloni, the mustachioed, opera-trained, antique jewelry-loving Italian who’s behind some of the most playful shoes to have enraptured the street-style set remember Miu Miu’s pearl-studded furry slides?).

Nicola Glass

It’s the American label that offers joyful, playful chic for the everyday woman, but what happens when you don’t just want to be “cute”? Kate Spade's new creative director Nicola glass tells Keng Yang Shuen what she’s adding to the brand’s lexicon.

Stuart Vevers

Stuart Vevers, the British designer who helped make Americana great again, tells Imran Jalal what defines and makes American fashion great right now, in this exclusive interview in New York.

Hedi Is Back With His Young Hearts, Run Free Maxim

The designer who made grown men covet skinny jeans, inspired women to dress like teenage party girls, and brought a Californian state of mind to Parisian fashion is back with the same liberating Maxim: young hearts, run free.

Lush Life Done Right

Take a break from the hustle and bustle of city life and sink into bliss at LUSH Aesthetics, where beauty meets science and innovation.

Shades Of Summer

Summer days are just around the corner. Make a style statement this season with trendy eyewear from Zoff.

TVF

You know her last name, and the launch of her first capsule collection for the house her trailblazing grandmother builtmight raise plenty of assumptions. Yes, talita von furstenberg is 100 per cent fashion front row elite. And yes, her pieces– like gran’s – are all about prints and effortless femininity. But she is under no pretence that she’s a designer – yet.Keng yang shuen speaks with the refreshingly down-to-earth 20-year-old and discovers the true charm of tvf for dvf.

Shine Bright Like A Diamond

Reveal your skin’s brilliance with Éternelle V Aesthetic Clinic & Medispa’s aesthetic services that promise effective results.

The Retail Queen: Elizabeth Von Der Goltz

THE VIVACIOUS LONDON-BASED GLOBAL BUYING DIRECTOR FOR NET-A-PORTER (RIGHT) SHARES HER CULTURAL RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THE BRANDS AND TRENDS THAT SHE’S MOST EXCITED ABOUT FOR FALL/WINTER 2018.

The “Home Girls”

WHO BETTER TO SHOW OFF – AND HELP RALLY SUPPORT FOR – SINGAPORE’S GROWING CROP OF DIRECTIONAL FASHION DESIGNERS THAN THEIR MOST LOYAL AND EQUALLY FASHION-FORWARD FANS?

Not Just A Pretty Face

A NON-FACIAL BEAUTY HIT LIST (AKA WHAT TO USE NOW TO IMPROVE THE LOOK AND HEALTH OF YOUR HAIR, NECK, HANDS AND BODY)

Get The Party Started

Not with Pink (what were you thinking?), but these latest needle-free aesthetic treatments that get you ready for that dance floor Instastory in just one session.

The Diy Beauty Treats

One of the easiest ways to embrace one’s individual beauty is also the most indulgent (come on, it’s Christmas). Here, six skincare and lifestyle products that’ll recreate that much-deserved five-star pampering experience at home.

Top-To-Toe Beauty

Celebrate Chinese New Year on a glowing note with Astique The Aesthetic Clinic’s wide range of face and body treatments that’ll help you look and feel amazing.

The Lensman

Getting intimate with strangers is a skill documentary filmmaker Reiner Holzemer has perfected. In an exclusive interview, he speaks to Imran Jalal about the art of being invisible and bringing out the human in everyone, including the reclusive Dries Van Noten, who’s headed to the screens here soon.

You Are Welcome

For all its ritzy Art Deco interiors and gin bar that’s become the hangout-of-choice for the fashionable set, Parkview Square is also trying to democratise contemporary art with possibly the first free museum in a commercial building in Singapore.

Water Bar

Anyone geared up for that mid-year summer getaway should also gear up on the latest trends to know about keeping skin quenched. Not a hard thing to do, considering it’s also when brands tend to have their biggest hydrating launches – and you’ve folks like us to do all the legwork.

New Balance

Two new ranges claim to tackle the most demanding skincare issue of the 20 something millennial set: a complexion that looks picture-perfect but isn’t. Goh Yee Huay reports.