Confidence can be a tricky thing, especially when you find yourself at the bottom during eliminations. Will you step up your game or will you succumb to your insecurities? This week’s episode will determine it all.
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The Faces of TOD’s Band Singapore
6 strong personalities, 1 band. TOD’s Band Singapore celebrates individuals who are inspired by life and create their own rules.
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Free from Gravity: Asia’s Next Top Model Cycle 4 Ep 2
Photos: May (Myanmar) via Asia’s Next Top Model Insiders While the launch of Asia’s Next Top Model Cycle 4 last Wednesday marks the return of yet another season of top-tier modeling challenges on reality television, peppered by harsh critics and bitchy roommates, this week’s episode which aired on 16 March 2016 on StarWorld Asia focused solely on “the…
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Under the Sea: The Debut Collection from WERMDOGG, a label by Singaporean Illustrator Xinleh
Photos: Wermdogg WERMDOGG’s latest collection of bags and shoes revolves around the mystics of the deep aquatic world. Operating via her online store on peer-to-peer e-commerce website Etsy, WERMDOGG which is the brainchild of Singaporean illustrator Xinleh, is the sort of label that any artist would have been inclined to dream up out of their own imagination. …
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The 360° Experience to Hussein Chalayan’s Fall/Winter 2016 Show at Paris Fashion Week
Thanks to Swarovski, we can now get to experience the beautiful Autumn/Winter 2016 fashion show from Hussein Chalayan in full 360-degree (yeah, some say that it’s akin to a immersive virtual reality show, but we’ll see). Coining the German culture as inspiration, the British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer who has a penchant for avant garde concepts imagined his latest collection…
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Couture by On Aura Tout Vu for Florence Foresti at the 41st César Awards 2016
Photos & Illustration: On Aura Tout Vu Remember the time you expected your favourite comedian to show up to an event in something frothy, glam up with embellishments and pops of diamante, and matching that with some sky-high heels to take them to the stars (with their humour)? Yeah, that never quite happened, did it? So…
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Figuratively Speaking: Interview with American Artist Aunia Kahn
Breaking creative thresholds one at a time, there seems to be no boundaries that American artist AUNIA KAHN can’t overcome as a multi-disciplinary creative entrepreneur.
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Beth Ditto and Wife Kristin Ogata Adds Diversity to Marc Jacobs S/S 2016 Ad Campaign
Photo Credit: Marc Jacobs Instagram (@themarcjacobs) You can always count on Beth Ditto, the 34-year-old frontwoman of rock band Gossip to hype up anything, be it a campaign or film, runway (she totally rocked the Hollywood-themed catwalks at the Marc Jacobs S/S 2016 show at the recent New York Fashion Week, by the way), magazine cover…
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ONES TO WATCH: EXOCET Paris Merges Savoir-faire and Avant-garde with Innovative Leather Bags
For the final leg of our ‘Hybridity’ issue, we look to EXOCET whose brand ethos transcends a sense of merger between the innovative and the traditional. Based in Paris, EXOCET is a bag label responsible for creating sensational hybrid animal and vegetal figure designs – fictitious creatures – on its convertible box-shaped genuine European leather handbags (even…
Read MoreBuenos Aires Calling: Bohemian Spirit in CHLOÉ Spring-Summer 2016 Campaign by Theo Wenner
Shot on the cobblestones and mosaic-tiled footpaths of the Argentinian capital, American photographer Theo Wenner debuts his first campaign for Chloé, by giving the bohemian spirit and nostalgia of the multi-cultural city a cinematic take.
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Ausra Osipaviciute Challenges the Limits of the Human Anatomy in ‘Fantplastique’
Counting Solve Sundsbo, Paolo Roversi, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott as some of the photographers who inspire her, fashion photographer Ausra Osipaviciute who is based out of London, UK uses her images to translate her imagination of a different fantastic universe to the world. She often conceives this vision of hers with the aid of post-production…
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ONES TO WATCH: OTHERNESS by Chrissie Pepels Creates Unconventional Jewellery
While there are loads to choose from, in terms of jewellery and accessories, one do get tired from the sea of sameness. Thankfully for us, we have O T H E R N E S S, a Netherlands-based contemporary jewellery brand by designer Chrissie Pepels, and her unconventional collection ‘Misery‘. What caught our attention…
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Irina Dzhus A/W 2015: A Totalitarian Approach to Fashion
As the year comes to a close, it is time to take stock of Ukrainian designer Irina Dzhus‘s Autumn/Winter 2015 collection entitled ‘TOTALITARIUM‘. One who’s never shy of using architectural silhouettes in her fashion pieces, Dzhus draws her inspiration from the cult of the technocratic – a social movement which arose in the early 20th century…
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Jane Bowler S/S 2016: Innovative Wear for the Modern Day Female Warrior
When East-London designer Jane Bowler first entered the fashion scene in 2011, most people were skeptical about her designs. They were asking questions such as “how can anyone make clothes out of plastic?” and “who would want to wear them?” More so with her ambitious aim of championing a whole new level of sustainability – by transforming plastics…
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L’ARMOIRE: THE NEW SHOPPING ENCLAVE IN TOWN
If you are surfeited with the sameness of fast fashion, take a brave sartorial leap forward and check out L’Armoire, the new multi-label boutique that is bringing a host of avant-garde designers to the breadth of the shopping belt at Raffles Hotel Arcade in Singapore. What sets them apart from the rest is their intrepid curation of progressive designers from around…
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AN ART AF(FAIR) TO REMEMBER
The Bank Art Fair has introduced a new host of artworks to Singapore for the second time around – in an unique room-to-room experience. Artworks from both new and established artists were thoughtfully culled from 56 galleries and 15 countries, and made to converge at Pan Pacific Singapore last weekend, taking up temporary residence in their respective rooms…
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News: Acclaimed artist Wu Qiong presents Post-pop and Neo Cartoons Artworks at Here and Now Exhibition in Singapore
Pure, simple and true by Wu Qiong, oil on canvas Amidst our busy and fast-paced lifestyles, isn’t it just blissful to have a day off, where you can head down to the beach, take carefree, breezy strolls and enjoy a bicycle ride with your love one whilst relishing in the stunning view of the sunset? You…
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Unfamiliar Familiarity: A Discourse on the Surgically-Perfect with Mexican Artist Gildo Medina
Mexican artist Gildo Medina creates a new dialogue for the world of surgically-perfect by making the familiar unfamiliar and unfamiliar familiar Considered as one of the most successful and important illustrators from around the globe by TASCHEN in the last edition of 100 illustrators, Mexico-born Gildo Medina is an international award-winning artist and photographer whose…
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NEWS: Coach Wisma Atria Flagship Store in Singapore Reopens with a Bang!
There have been many talks about Coach Wisma Atria in the days leading to its reopening party and ceremony last night. For one, Korean-American star Jay Park was set to be gracing the event, and that was enough to make many fan girls hyped up over the arrival of their favourite celebrity – proven by…
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ONES TO WATCH: Dialogue with Melbourne-based fashion photographer Jiajia Tan
Discover that young photographer’s style that is undeniably fresh and distinctive.
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COUTURE TROOPERS MAGAZINE 