“Give a girl the right shoe and she can conquer the world” – Marilyn Monroe Such is very true about New York rising shoe designer OBI Cymatica, whose shoe designs are edged between the line of glamour, sophistication in innovative and sleek cuts. Having grown up in Nigeria and moving to New York at the age…
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Helmed as the Grand Finale show at Fidé Couture Week 2012, Parisian Haute Couturier On Aura Tout Vu impressed and surprised with a big bang. With an inclination to spur surprises on the fashion runway, the couture label by head designers Livia Stoianova and Yassen Samoilov are well-known for creating runways that are almost akin to a…
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If there is any designer whom I would take my hats off to, it would be YIQING YIN. The 27-year-old Beijing-born Haute Couturier, who was here in town last week for the showcase of her couture collection at the French Couture Week 2012 by Fidé Fashion Weeks, was brought up in Paris since the age…
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If I hear the words “Christmas is not fun”, I will immediately call you a ‘liar’, and maybe even pack you up and hand you over to actor Sebastian Tan, who acts as the wicked witch here. He will gladly cook you in his pot of enchanting soup. Yes, you’ve heard it right. Things are…
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As time progresses to the premiere of Asia’s Next Top Model on November 4, 2012, we have with us none other than Canadian-born fashion photographer, Todd Anthony Tyler, who will be shooting the pretty faces on the upcoming television reality show, as well as judging their struts on the panel of judges. Renowned for his supreme…
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As you would have known by now, bold statement pieces always get me on a high note. In fact, it has always been ‘the bolder, the better‘ for me! That is why, I was completely bowled over when I first saw the rather eccentric necklaces by Indonesian fashion accessory label, fréj whose designers Franky Wongkar and Jeffrey Jeff were recently…
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There’s simply no better way to start off the week, than to have with us Jane Bowler, a London-based designer whose extraordinary skills in using plastics as core materials in most of her designs, which are impactful as well as revolutionary, as what I’d like to think of as wearable ‘coutures’. While her designs may not exactly be coutures,…
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It was simply love at first sight when I first chanced on British accessories label, Lucy Jay and her magnificent digital-printed silk scarves a couple of months ago. As a scarves and art lover, Lucy’s designs truly excites me in a way that no label has done so. Known for bejewelled symmetry and vigourous patterns…
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