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SINGAPORE — “Welcome home, Andrew.” Signing off a profile within the exhibition catalogue of “Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World,” the words of writer Tan Siok Sun embodied the sensation within the Asian metropolis because the Paris-based designer, who’s deemed “Singapore’s best fashion export,” made his homecoming. “This exhibition celebrates Andrew [Gn’s] profession as a global and Singaporean designer. It explores how Andrew and his body of labor further the notion of a world Singapore, a small Singapore but [a nation that] punches above its weight,” said Asian Civilizations Museum and Peranakan Museum director Kennie Ting. “And it celebrates Andrew’s unique ability to craft objects of great beauty from the mixing of materials, motifs, silhouettes and sensibilities drawn from East...