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Friday May 24th, 2013

Shopping in Singapore: A Guide for the Mall-Adverse
Shopping

Shopping in Singapore: A Guide for the Mall-Adverse

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I spent last week in Singapore attending the city’s Audi Fashion Festival. To conclude my coverage, I offer you an abbreviated guide to shopping in the city. Shopping for the mall-adverse, that is. Because Singapore—which to me, feels like a cross between Vancouver, Las Vegas and, well, Asia—is filled with malls. If you live in a place that doesn’t have Forever 21, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, etc.—or the internet—you might want to visit those malls. But for most of us, a mall is a mall is a mall. These are shops you won’t find anywhere but Singapore.

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Published at 5:45 PM

Thursday May 23rd, 2013

The Success Story Behind Singapore Fashion Week
The Little Fashion Week that Could

The Success Story Behind Singapore Fashion Week

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Cities like Berlin, Tokyo and Sydney boast enough local talent recognized internationally to draw a small-but-influential pool of editors and buyers from the US, Europe and still-growing luxury markets including Russia, South America and of course, Asia. But when a city like Singapore throws a fashion week, there’s got to be more to it than industry buzz. There’s got to be a consumer angle.

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Wednesday May 22nd, 2013

Tuesday May 21st, 2013

Meet Singapore Fashion Week’s Rising Stars
Singapore Fashion Week

Meet Singapore Fashion Week’s Rising Stars

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While there was plenty of international talent at the Audi Fashion Festival—Singapore Fashion Week, in laymen’s terms—the region’s emerging designers gave a solid performance. More than anything, I was truly impressed by the workmanship shown in the majority of the new-designer collections. Project Runway-level clothes these were not. Instead, these up-and-coming designers from China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and of course, Singapore itself, debuted well-constructed collection (often with a refreshing point of view). Click through to meet five stand-out designers.

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Published at 6:09 PM

Sunday May 19th, 2013

Peter Pilotto on Why He Wants Investment Sooner Than Later
Singapore Fashion Week

Peter Pilotto on Why He Wants Investment Sooner Than Later

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The international talent at Singapore’s Audi Fashion Festival is impressive: Carolina Herrera opened the event, Hussein Chalayan will close it. Friday’s schedule featured Tsumori Chisato. And Saturday brought Peter Pilotto, the London-based designer whose lauded collections are just as much about the fabrics and detailing as they are about his memorable computerized prints.

I spoke with Pilotto–whose six-year-old business is on the cusp of some big things—just after the show.

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Published at 12:43 PM

Saturday May 18th, 2013

Tsumori Chisato’s Fall 2013 Collection Is Twice as Nice the Second Time Around
Singapore Fashion Week

Tsumori Chisato’s Fall 2013 Collection Is Twice as Nice the Second Time Around

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Unlike the Big Four fashion weeks, events like Audi’s Fashion Festival Singapore are a mix of local designers launching their latest collections and international designers showing theirs for a second time to a new audience. On Friday, Japanese designer Tsumori Chisato showed her fall 2013 collection to Singapore fans, months after debuting it at Paris Fashion Week.

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Friday May 17th, 2013

Monday April 15th, 2013

The Best Shows from Australian Fashion Week
We Break It Down

The Best Shows from Australian Fashion Week

by Alyx Gorman

For a true indsider’s take on Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia, which just wrapped last week in Sydney, we asked our friend Alyx Gorman, fashion editor at one of Australia’s biggest lifestyle sites The Vine, (and formerly of Oyster) to break it down for us. You’ll learn about the buzzy new labels down under, who is behind them, and why they matter in Australia.

Check out Alyx’s picks for the best of Australian Fashion Week.

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Tuesday March 26th, 2013

Mapping Out Fashion Month By Color: Fall 2013
Fashion Week

Mapping Out Fashion Month By Color: Fall 2013

by DANA KRUSPE

Last season we decided that seeing one collection and one look at a time was not a good enough way to determine color trends. You can’t remember everything all at once. (At least, those of us who haven’t been blessed with a photographic memory cannot.) So what’s one to do? Put all the collections together, of course.

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Monday March 25th, 2013

How Icelandic Designers Are Empowering Women
Fashion Week

How Icelandic Designers Are Empowering Women

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Maybe it’s the fact that their tiny island country was the first in the world to have a woman president (Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, who served from 1980-1996) or maybe it’s the new necessity that everyone, women and men alike, channel their strengths and entrepreneurial spirit in the aftermath of the 2008 economic meltdown. Maybe Viking women are simply badass.

Whatever the reason, Icelandic designers are keen to use the power of fashion to empower the modern Icelandic woman and to make sure that that empowered woman looks phenomenal as she helps to rebuild the country.

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Tuesday March 12th, 2013

Monday March 11th, 2013