So You Say You Want A Revolution?

For anyone who’s said that the local fashion design scene is staid and conservative, meet the emerging labels that are upending streetwear, how it’s retailed and the face of singapore style with their punk attitude – as sported here by their very own muses and fresh faces on our modelling scene.

- Keng Yang Shuen 

Architect-slash-model Jasmine (in foreground) wears Ther Yang Tyvek blazer, skirt and lipstick bag on a metal chain, and pre-pandemic “professional traveler” Gilbert wears Ther Yang Tyvek coat and pants. All theryang.com. Gilbert’s top, his own. All shoes throughout, stylist’s own unless otherwise stated

FASSBENDER & MELLON COLLIE

While natural-dyed clothes have been gaining ground as the slow fashion and sustainability movements grow, Ethan Lee’s vision for this label that he founded two years ago takes a slightly different tack from its earthier cousins. For one thing, he technically doesn’t retail per se. Instead, he positions the brand as a dyeing service. Interested parties can reach out via Instagram (@fassbenderandmelloncollie) with requests to customize their own or sourced garments with the distinctive, slightly ghostly tie-dyelike motifs that Lee achieves with the help of ice (it helps to disperse the dyes in a more organic, erratic pattern – the whole beauty of his approach, he says).