“Don’t be afraid,” Shabnam Arashan tells me. “It’s only fashion.” It might seem counter‑intuitive that a fashion icon’s top style tip is to “not take fashion too seriously”, but according to Arashan, one of the Singapore inductees into the Asia’s Most Stylish list this year, having great style is more about knowing yourself than it is about knowing your labels.
“Being fashionable no longer pertains to just the clothes you wear. It includes how you move through the world. It’s a matter of being confident and at ease with yourself,” she says. “There are very subtle nuances of what I like in my fashion, seen in the interior decor of my home, the art I collect, the restaurants that I go to … you tend to project what you like not
