GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

If there was any doubt to whether pregnancy glow is real, Jamie QQ Wu puts it to rest. On the day we meet, she looks serene, radiant even—belying the fact that she just wrapped a 13-hour shoot the day before (the results of which can be seen here) and that in four days, will be giving birth to her second child, a daughter named Eden. But right now, we are sitting in the three-storey Modernist bungalow in Bukit Timah that Wu, with her husband, Anthony Couse, and their two-year-old son, Archie, calls home. From the outside, it is a hulk of dark grey concrete offset by lush foliage; inside, it is all warm woods and soft cream furnishings, with light pouring in through expansive floor-to-ceiling windows.

Home is a place that has taken on major significance in Wu’s life—something that the globe-trotting fashion entrepreneur (whose most recent venture is Altava, a virtual fashion platform) did not expect. Part of it was due to the housebound lifestyle brought about by the pandemic, but more importantly, it