TheModern Pygmalion

Nigel Chia’s introduction to fashion was a little more abrupt than one would expect. While playing with his mother’s vintage sewing machine out of curiosity (when his parents weren’t looking, of course), he’d gotten his right index finger thoroughly punctured. And while it was no doubt a painful experience for his precocious five-year-old self, it hadn’t deterred him in the slightest. The son of a home seamstress, Chia described it to be the defining precursor to creating his eponymous label, Nigel Chia Atelier, as well as his