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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.

Lucky Blue

Might Chanel have struck gold in its quest to prolong youthful, healthy skin, all thanks to studies carried out on the world’s 100-year-olds?

Dream Girls

Call them part of the Kylie Jenner generation – women whose social media followings rival that of street-style stars, thanks to their good looks, come-hither routfi ts and sexy photographs. Keng Yang Shuen meets three such agent provocateurs, here for a deeper expose.

New Rules

What we know of fashion just seems to keep on changing. Who are the new influencers? What are the new staples? Do seasons and gender matter? The designers behind three labels to watch now give their take.

Chroma Heart

WHAT EVERY TIMEPIECE HERE HAS IN COMMON: A CONSIDERABLE ELEMENT OF CERAMIC (AND, NO, WE AIN’T TALKING STONEWARE) THAT IS NOT IN BLACK OR WHITE. IMRAN JALAL REPORTS ON WHY THIS NEXT MOST COLOURFUL TREND IN HOROLOGY SHOULD GET YOU ALL PSYCHED UP.

Leandra Medine

The feminist author, designer and founder of the irreverent New York-based fashion website, Man Repeller, shares the things and places she’s into.