Culture
F ZINE
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT
Besides bringing in some of the best movies from around the globe (nearly every one is “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes), homegrown independent film distributor Anticipate Pictures is known for its hyper-stylish, often-cheeky scroll-stopping artworks promoting said flicks — after all, the company was founded in 2016, when Instagram was starting to seriously blow up.
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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MAIN CHARACTER
Scene-stealing bags for every style and occasion
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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CINEMA PARADISO
The house of Chanel has been a committed champion of the film world since founder Gabrielle Chanel started dressing the actresses from the United Artists studio at the request of American producer Samuel Goldwyn in the 1930s. Besides styling stars on screen and off, the brand has been an active supporter of international movie festivals, institutions and directors (local auteur Eric Khoo was one of them); has helped to restore classics such as the enigmatic Last Year at Marienbad (1961); and often draws inspiration from cinema. For Cruise 2025/26, it pays homage to the glamour of the silver screen as well as Coco Chanel's decades-spanning friendship with legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti. Here's an exclusive closeup look at the collection and the many ways it's coded la dolce vita.
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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CALLING THE SHORTS
The power of a short film goes beyond its ability to pander to shrinking attention spans. As Thong Kay Wee, the programme director of the Singapore International Film Festival, explains, \"the format is often more inclusive because of its lower production cost, giving space for niche stories and creative freedom to exist\", adding that \"historically, short films have always been an integral feature of local cinema\".
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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DISCOVER CINEMA'S NEW VOICES!
The largest and longest-running film festival on our shores, the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), is back and for its 36th edition, it’s putting new voices front and centre.
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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PORTRAITS OF LADIES ON FIRE
Launched in 2011, Miu Miu Women’s Tales is the longest-running platform supporting the creation of short films by women and about women – or, more specifically, femininity and its relationship with vanity. Its latest commission is helmed by the incisive French filmmaker Alice Diop, whose short Fragments for Venus is a powerful reclamation of identity pertinent to the times.
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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THE LIFE OF A GIRL
Every once in a while, a coming-of-age film with some serious punk attitude comes along and electrifies a generation.
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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DAYS OF BEING WILD
It began life as the Golden Theatre - Singapore's largest cinema when it opened in 1973 – and was transformed 11 years ago by Karen Tan, Sharon Tan and Blaise Trigg-Smith into The Projector. A bold, indie institution residing in Golden Mile Tower, it challenged the rules of movie-going and became the beating heart of the city's alternative film scene. To survive though, The Projector had to be more than just a cinema - and so it evolved into a space for creative risk-taking, subculture and community. Living up to its tag line, \"Not Your Average Cinema\", it rewrote what a film venue could be. Three months on from its unexpected closure this August, co-founder Karen reflects on more than a decade of cinematic rebellion, cultural experimentation and what it meant to build - and lose - a space like no other.
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Vol 4 (Nov 2025)
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XTRA CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Welcome to a new golden era of oddly specific hobbies. Want to make a book by hand? Have your most personal memories etched into a record? Or how about dressing like a 14th-century elf at a fantasy-inspired fair? These days, chances are that there's someone else who's just as into such activities as you are - and there are more avenues than ever here to find your people, fuelled by a craving for connection and a creative escape in a too-fast digital world.
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Vol 3 (Oct 2025)
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DESTINY CALLING
Since its creation in 1969, the Cartier Love bangle has always defied expectations.
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Vol 3 (Oct 2025)
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GIRLS JUST WANNA F1
Once an exclusive boys' club, Formula 1 – or F1 – has found itself in the hands of a new wave of fans: young women reimagining what it means to love the sport. Beyond watching races, they're building communities, designing merch, and turning race weekends into showcases of fashion, friendship and fangirl joy.
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Vol 3 (Oct 2025)
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GOALS!
Step aside, pilates princesses. The next big fitness-related flex among young women in Singapore could just be – wait for it – football. This July, for example, marked the first time the Lion City Cup – an international youth football tournament – introduced a girls' competition, with Singapore represented by our under-16 squad.
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Vol 3 (Oct 2025)
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GUESS THE SCENT
After a nearly decade-long hiatus from the world of perfumes, Balenciaga has decided to delve back into it with not one but 10 new fragrances.
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Vol 3 (Oct 2025)
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STAGE PRESENCE
Aptly dubbed Rouge Dior On Stage, Dior's newest lipstick is built for the spotlight.
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Vol 3 (Oct 2025)
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GIRL BAND ALERT
The timepiece that broke boundaries in the 1980s for being unapologetically fashion-forward and feminine has a new member in its family. Introducing the Chanel Premiere Galon, which can be said to be the most jewellery-like of all in the Chanel Premiere collection, thanks to an unexpectedly glamorous twist.
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Vol 3 (Oct 2025)
Female Singapore
TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE LIVE STREAMER SUPERCATKEI
Denise Teo didn't mean to become a live-stream star. In 2020, she joined Twitch and streamed her gaming session out of a desire to meet new people. Now – some 90K followers later – Supercatkei (her online moniker) is a full-blown digital force, with fans tuning in to watch her not only game but also chat, play the guitar and sing. She has repped Singapore at TwitchCon, hit the red carpet to interview Tom Cruise and built a corner of the internet that feels more community than clout. But being perpetually online comes with its own kind of burnout. Together with Polo Ralph Lauren, F ZINE finds out from the 27-year-old about the emotional labour of being everyone's internet comfort person, learning to log off and why passing it on is so important for her.
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Vol 1
Female Singapore
talking about the FUTURE with TATTOO ARTIST PIERROT POKES
In the increasingly oversaturated ink game, how does one make a mark? The 24-year-old (real name: Brennan Tan) might know a thing or two. After all, the business management student went from inking himself for fun to becoming one of the most popular tattoo artists in Singapore in less than four years, if his Instagram followers are anything to go by (more than 40K and counting – his signature kawaii cats and anime-inspired characters are pretty fire). Here, he shares about how he started in the scene, how this gig is going and where he wants to end up.
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Vol 1
Female Singapore
fun!
FASHION, BUT MAKE IT HARAJUKU – GO ON AND EXPRESS YOURSELF
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Female Singapore
HELLO AGAIN, friend!
OVER THE THREE YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN RUNNING OUR TIKTOK-FIRST STREET INTERVIEW COLUMN PEOPLE CAM, WE'VE MET, SNAPPED AND CHATTED WITH HUNDREDS OF COLOURFUL, CULTURALLY CURIOUS YOUNG INDIVIDUALS IN SINGAPORE. FOR THIS INAUGURAL EDITION OF F ZINE, WE CAUGHT UP WITH 12 OF THEM TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHAT THEY STAND FOR BEYOND THEIR FASHION-FORWARD FITS.
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Vol 1
Female Singapore
talking about the FUTURE with DANCER CHARLOTTE SEET
She’s the 19-year-old phenomenon who has chalked up some 569K followers and 49.5 million Likes on TikTok with her explosive moves and baddie energy — exactly the kind of girl Onitsuka Tiger’s edgy, denim-forward line DENIVITA was created for. Together with the Japanese label, F ZINE kits her out in the latest collection — and finds out how she has crafted a burgeoning creator career from popping off.
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Vol 1
Female Singapore
the funk masters
No bops, no buzz. Meet some of the individuals injecting the nightlife and electronic music scenes here with a whole lot of heart, soul, style and wit.
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Female Singapore
talking about the FUTURE with RACER KAREEN KAUR
The average Singapore teenager would probably be fretting over impending national exams, but Kaur isn't like most teenagers.
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Female Singapore
First crush. Latest crush. Romantic crush. Celebrity crush. Biggest crush.Small crush. Mini crush - and what happens when someone's got a crush on you? As Chanel's Coco Crush line of fine jewellery – distinguished by its quilted motif - welcomes a bumper crop of new styles this year, F ZINE gets four emerging Singapore-based talents to share about their passions now and forever. XX!
SHYE, 23, ARTISTE & MUSIC PRODUCER
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Vol 1
Female Singapore
AND SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS
If you've seen Valentino’s cinematic, Glen Luchford-lensed Fall 2025 campaign — with its cast of quirky young individuals captured in front of an ice cream parlour going about their everyday - then you already know the vibe. To usher in the collection last month, the Roman fashion house recreated that same good energy right here in Singapore, taking over the newly opened cult gelateria Messina on Club Street for a lively two-day affair. In collaboration with the brand, Female invited over 60 of our friends on day two for some delectable cold scoops, plenty of warm chatter, and a little taste of la dolce vita.
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July 2025
Female Singapore
BOOK SMARTS
Till Sept 22 this year, artist Wolfgang Tillmans — one of the most thought-provoking and influential documentors of youth culture since the 1990s — stages an epic exhibition at the Bibliotheque Publique d’Information, or BPI, in the Centre Pompidou in Paris before the arts centre shuts for a major five-year renovation. Titled Nothing Could Have Prepared Us — Everything Could Have Prepared Us, it covers his entire oeuvre, integrating video, music, sound and personal objects with his prints, and is displayed in response to the architectural surroundings, resulting in a whole new way of exhibiting photography.
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July 2025
Female Singapore
IT DOESN END WITH US
Overseas book deals, international awards, even film rights - if these are the markers of success in the literary world, then the local writing scene has hit a new peak, led by a younger generation of authors penning their own diverse takes on the Singapore story.
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July 2025
Female Singapore
QUEEN
Creative director, creator, stylist, entrepreneur, restaurant boss, one of the original zillennial fashion influencers. Since bursting onto the scene as the intrepid host of a travel reality series in the early 2010s, Mae Tan has worn many hats — and she’s planning to put on more. To think the girl only just turned 30. So who better to mine for advice on surviving — and thriving — in the frenetic creative industry? Sarah Adriana Farek has a catch-up.
8 min |
July 2025
Female Singapore
HOW TO MAKE IT
Crafted with savoir-faire and considered materials, these wardrobe additions additions exemplify style style with with substance.
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July 2025
Female Singapore
MARKET ANALYSIS
Six creative Gen Z-ers who have each embarked on a career within the past three years share the lessons they've learnt from navigating the professional world and how they define success in it.
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July 2025
Female Singapore
OUR HEROES ACADEMIA
It's traditionally the time. of year when tertiary institutions hold their graduation ceremonies. The 11 talents here were all recommended by their respective design schools as the cream of the crop. What they all have in common: sharp ideas, soft power and zero interest in playing it safe. Here's a look at each of their final-year projects, or FYPS, as well as attitudes towards pursuing a life in the arts.
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