September 2022

Vogue Singapore

Vogue Singapore is a bold, innovative and fashion-forward magazine.

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Editor-in-Chief Norman Tan Deputy Editor Amelia Chia Digital Editor Janice Sim Watches and Jewellery Editor Celine Yap Chief Sub-Editor Jacqueline Danam Senior Writer Chandreyee Ray Digital Writer Azrin Tan Interns Mira Purnamasari and Sidney Yuen Fa
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Editor’s LETTER
This time last year, we launched the world’s first Vogue NFT issue. A giant QR code in silver foil emblazoned our September print cover and served as a portal to an open-air gallery that showcased two digital-only covers: virtual fashion house The Fa
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GOTHIC Revival
Hair, Taichi Saito/Art Department; make-up, Virginia Young/The Wall Group; casting director, Anna Jozwiak; photographer’s assistant, Alex; stylist’s assistant, LJ Perez; production, Dirty Pretty Productions; model, Aleyna Fitzgerald/DNA. ■
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New HEIGHTS
Once a signifier of power and status in West Asia, the symbolism of heels has morphed over the centuries. First worn by Persian cavalry in the 10th century to stabilise themselves on horseback, European aristocrats—including Queen Elizabeth I—quickly
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The RENAISSANCE
Hair, Dollei Seah/Makeup Entourage using Keune; make-up, Zhou Aiyi/Makeup Entourage using YSL Beauty; hair and make-up assistant, Jen Lim/Makeup Entourage; photographer’s assistant, Wanjie Li; stylist’s assistant, Nicole Ng; models/talent, Macky/Misc
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PIXEL Perfect
In Vogue Singapore’s virtual world, anything is possible. Picture this: a circular courtyard in the middle of the desert, a flight of white stairs leading heavenward, and a locked door by a solitary tree. In a landscape driven by surrealist elements
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The EDIT
Photographer’s assistant, Tanguy Ginter; digital operator, Pedro Teles/Sheriff Projects; set designer’s assistant, Anne Camille Allueva; producer, Ravo Adiba/Iconoclast Image; production coordinator, Mylène Ollino/Iconoclast Image. ■
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WUNDER Revival
Alessandro Michele’s vision for Gucci is easily recognisable. Since Michele’s appointment in 2015, maximalism has become one of the house’s defining features, with his interpretation comprising clashing colours, exaggerated motifs and dramatic Renais
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Homecoming QUEEN
You know that person who says ‘I miss high school so much’? I don’t trust that person. You know the ones who say ‘those were the best years of my life’? Run away as fast as you can.” Aside from her relatable sentiments on the dangers of peaking as a
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The EYES Have It
1. Dior 5 Couleurs Couture Eyeshadow Palette in 889 Reflexion, $105, from Dior Dior’s buttery-smooth shadows are a delight to swatch and shade. If you’re over basic neutrals or exotic hues, it’s time to dress your lids in the burnished tones of autum
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Rooney Mara
THOMAS WHITESIDE FOR GIVENCHY PARFUMS, ALL CLOTHES BYGIVENCHY ■
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WHAT’S IN IT For Us?
Decentraland’s first Metaverse Fashion Week in March set the Internet alight as Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce&Gabbana and Etro sent their digital designs down the virtual runway. Interestingly, even beauty brand Estée Lauder participated in this project. Tak
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INTO the BLEU
An innovator, entrepreneur and risk-taker, Gabrielle Chanel was a rebel at heart. Today, the spirit of the visionary couturier lives on in her boundary-pushing house and is kept alive by allies such as Jacques Polge, who concocted Bleu de Chanel in 2
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REFINED Harmony
There is something intrinsically attractive about a woman who is at peace with herself. It is for that same reason that we find comfort and beauty in nature. Artists throughout time have tried to replicate the harmony that comes about when all elemen
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Bio RESONANCE
Mucin. Demeter. Quartz and agate. Selene on the ascendant. Not a spell or chant, but prose and curious keywords beauty director Alli Sim sent to Gates. Created in collaboration with Vogue Singapore, Bio Resonance ricochets between the past and the im
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CITY Slicker
The reinvention of a tried-and-true classic is never a walk in the park, especially when it’s attempted by one who is considered an outsider to the industry-as Carolina Bucci was to the luxury watchmaking scene. Yet despite those odds, the Florentine
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JARDIN Lumiere
A collective gasp. Then a flurry of applause. Carla Bruni has just stepped onto the runway in a black shift dress, and sparkling from her neck, the Bulgari Tribute to Paris necklace; a magnificent jewel bearing a repeated Eiffel Tower motif encrusted
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Earthly WONDERS
Every summer, Boucheron presents its Carte Blanche high jewellery collection, which pushes creativity to the final frontiers. This season, the maison turns our attention not to any one specific location but quite simply, elsewhere. Austerely named Ai
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GUARDIANS Of The SUN
The Côte d’Azur is shimmering an incandescent gold. Palais Bulles, perched above the Mediterranean, clinging to the cliff like a bunch of giant grapes, glows a deep shade of aubergine. It’s golden hour in Théoule-sur-Mer, just south of Cannes, and th
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Living the DREAM
o wander around the hallowed halls of Villa Albani-Torlonia in Rome, being surrounded by its vast collection of art and antiquities numbering to the hundreds—a collection that includes masterpieces even top museums would be grateful to possess—was a
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HISTORY In The MAKING
What do you see?” Christian Selmoni’s question to me from the previous day still rings in my mind. We had met at Hôtel de Crillon in Paris for a private viewing of the new Métiers d’Art timepiece collection, which Vacheron Constantin had created in p
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SCALE Up
Hair, Yusuke Taniguchi; make-up, Céline Exbrayat; manicure, Charléne Coquard; stylist’s assistant, Oceana Henriques Tome; model, Ana Jorge; casting, Sébastien Hernandez; executive producer, Jean Baptiste Romefort; props, Nicolas Mur; co-ordinating ed
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FASHION Multiverse
The metaverse is much closer to home than one would expect. Think back to the days of lockdown, when an aching need for human connection birthed a new, digital way of life. As a replacement for in-person interactions, the population gravitated to the
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Top SHELF
Delve into the maison’s integral role in the crowning of sporting legends across history, depicted in an artful coffee table book. An encyclopaedic journey through the captivating origin stories of clothing and how it has shaped the ways in which we
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INTO her OWN
It is a blisteringly hot day in early August and rehearsals have just started for the second run of the highly anticipated The LKY Musical—the first large-scale musical to take place on our island state in over two years. There’s a hum, tinged with a
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GOING beyond GOLD
A car should reflect what you stand for and if you’re a passionate, driven and successful woman, finding a machine that mirrors that excellence might be a tough call. Fortunately, there is one marque that is on par—Porsche has been creating sports ca
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Living Life TO THE MAX
The first thing that arrests one’s attention in the home of Andrea Savage is the astounding view outside the living room windows, one of skyscrapers clustered toy-like in the distance against an endless expanse of cerulean sky. Once that vision sets
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Take Me Higher
Boundless, elusive, hypnotic. As Vogue explores the global theme of ‘Fashion’s New World’ for September, we take you on a journey that borrows from the spirit of surrealism-namely, the prodigal drawing boards of Man Ray and Salvador Dalí—and transpor
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In Reel Time
Hair, Benjamin David using Davines; hair assistant, Leanna Millar; make-up, Grace Ellington/Saint Luke Artists using Urban Decay; make-up assistant, Louise Done; stylist’s assistant, Ella Defoe; lighting assistant, Harry Burner; digital operator, Ale
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Always And Forever
Hair, Davontae Washington; make-up, Adam Fleischhauer. Hair, Esther Langham; make-up, Dick Page; manicurist, Yuko Tsuchihashi; tailor, Carol Ai. ■
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FORCES of CHANGE
There are some people in the world who seem so dedicated to their jobs that it’s hard to believe they could have ever done something else. For those individuals, their identities become wrapped up in their professions—what they do becomes who they ar
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Fashion’s NEW WORLD
Demna is arguably his generation’s most influential designer. At the helm of Balenciaga since 2015— where, in 2021, he reintroduced couture after a half-century hiatus—he has recast fashion in his image, mixing flights of sartorial fancy with funhous
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Unfamiliar TIES
“Every time you encounter something unknown, there’s some fear, confusion or unfamiliarity that takes you out of your comfort zone. I think that’s the whole point—I’ve always been interested in the in-between objects that could easily be read.” Scan

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