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30 May

Singapore Fêtes Andrew Gn and Retrospective at Asian Civilizations Museum

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...
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27 May

With Singapore Retrospective, Andrew Gn Begins a Latest Chapter

Andrew Gn is prepared for his close-up. As he celebrates 28 years in business, the Paris-based designer is the topic of his first major retrospective, “Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World,” on show on the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore until Sept. 17. He’s working on a biography, to be published next fall, and is in talks to bring the exhibition to institutions in the USA, France and the remaining of Asia, including China. “So it should be about five, six years of my life. It’s like engaging myself in a James Bond movie,” he says, with considered one of the booming laughs that punctuate his conversation. Gn is sitting on the mirrored Gio Ponti dining table in considered one of...
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11 May

‘Beauty standards in Singapore are just about the identical

On a recent trip to Korea, a beauty and lifestyle influencer allegedly encountered two men who made fatphobic comments toward her.Natalie Naploes (@naploes), a Singaporean content creator and college student, disclosed a recent encounter she had while vacationing in Korea.“Hi, so I just got here back from Korea and I’m back in Singapore now, and I just wish to speak about, like, my very real experience with the fatphobia and pretty privilege in Korea,” Naploes starts. “Every country has, like, different beauty standards but in Korea the wonder standard is, like, being a skinny, pale, skinny woman. Due to the whole K-pop, like, culture in Korea, everybody’s very harsh on, like, looks and so they expect you to be a...
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