by Michele Adriaens, 3 Feb 2010 |
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SQ and Alex are the designers behind local menswear label, Coupé-Cousu. Their design aesthetic favours understatement over complex detailing and unnecessary embellishments. Every piece of garment they create has to marry design and function. “This practicality perhaps came from our academic background in finance and business,” Alex adds. “To us, our challenge in design is a lot about engineering and creating interesting garments while respecting the constraints and structure necessary in contemporary menswear.”
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by Michele Adriaens, 17 Jan 2010 |
Photography by Brendan Zhang, Milk Photographie. Hair & Make-up by Julienne Tan. Model: Brittany Jursic, Mannequin.
A freelance fashion stylist and contributor with Harper’s BAZAAR Singapore, Ai Mei, was accepted into Central Saint Martin’s 2009 cohort for BA (Hons) Womenswear, before graduating from LASALLE College of the Arts, with a Diploma in Fashion Design in 2008. Ai Mei is the designer behind the MAE PANG label, which will open its first flagship store at PARCO’s Next this April.
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by Michele Adriaens, 7 Jan 2010 |
Top: Bod Mod by ELOHIM – Bottom: Escapism by Reckless Ericka
Starting today ‚UNCOVERED‛ will be Reckless Ericka and ELOHIM by Sabrina Goh’s one week pop-up store.
This collaboration between both labels, is the sequel to the Blueprint Fashion Show at the Audi Fashion Festival 2009 in May, where both labels shared the same stage.
Located at Stamford House #01-13 for one week only -7 to 13 January- Reckless Ericka and Elohim by Sabrina Goh will be retailing the Spring/ Summer 2010 collections, “ESCAPISM” and “BOD MOD” respectively.
by Michele Adriaens, 27 Dec 2009 |
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Michelle Wong is a 20-year-old fresh off fashion designer from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Michelle has a flair for fine tailored garments, and the featured pieces commanded some cosmic attention during the Parco Fashion Incubator contest last November.
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by Michele Adriaens, 19 Dec 2009 |
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In 2008, Terry Yeo graduated from the Universtity of Huddersfields, UK with a BA(Hons) in Fashion Design. In July 2009, Terry and his two buddies -Joe Kee and Ronnie Cheng- decided to launch the ForInSaneHuman label.
Terry about the label: “We want to create a new style that provides consumers with another option when purchasing, while providing the label opportunities to create a new fashion statement in the local fashion line. We challenge the clubbing style in both the men and ladies wear market by designing over the top, yet wearable designs. Heavy details and the unconventional cutting is the major focus of each collection.”
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by Michele Adriaens, 9 Dec 2009 |
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Pauline Lim graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with a Diploma in Apparel Design & Merchandising, and worked on an eight-week internship at Song & Kelly. Earlier this year she received a BA Fashion Design from Lasalle, and started her own label -pauline.ning- with the Fashion Incubator.
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by Michele Adriaens, 30 Nov 2009 |
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Max Tan believes with zeal and passion in what he does. Graduating form Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Max’s passion for fashion design embarks on an adventure with a boosting start, as he bags the 2006 Best Graduate Award at NAFA with his first collection, ‘Wrath and Temptations’. The following year, Max clinches second runner-up in the Singapore Fashion Designers Contest, with his debut collection, ‘Borrowing from My Boyfriend’s Wardrobe’
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by Michele Adriaens, 20 Nov 2009 |
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skins ‘n’ bones designer, Nicole Wong is currently finishing her Degree in Fashion Design at the Raffles Design Institute. “Fashion to me is passion, and I don’t mind having sleepless nights and fashion thoughts running through my head all day long, because I can’t see myself doing anything else. I guess you can say that I’m a workaholic, and I won’t rest … ever.”
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