As the founding creative director behind award-winning Singaporean design studio Foreign Policy, one might expect Yah-Leng Yu's design hero to be a graphic designer. Or, at the very least, an interior designer. Foreign Policy, has, after all, made a name for itself by reinvigorating brands from the inside out, engineering everything from their office interiors to their logo.
But no—it's Rei Kawakubo.
“As a young designer, I had an endless fascination with her clothes,” says Yu. “I realised that, more often than not, she would start with a simple form which she would then take apart and reformat. It was ingenious.”
The anti-fashion approach that Kawakubo had once taken to shape the
