For 30 years, Tatler Singapore has been the ultimate authority on high society and the luxury lifestyle; defining and covering the world’s most important, influential and exciting people, products, parties and places.
SHANGLIU TATLER WE ARE FAMILY GUESTS AT THIS YEAR’S SHANGLIU TATLER Ball take pride of place on the cover of an issue that celebrates friends and family. In a Close-Up interview, Pier Luigi Loro Piana (pictured) tells the story of his family’s fashion company, Loro Piana, which specialises in cashmere and wool products, and the latest devlopments for the luxury Italian brand since LVMH bought an 80 per cent stake in 2013. TAIWAN TATLER GLOBAL CITIZEN Patricia Liao speaks about the challenges of her new role as deputy director of the Chimei Museum, which boasts a unique collection of artwork and artefacts including a precious horde of violins, and reveals how she supports her husband, Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung. Also featured is Paris-based Taiwanese artist A-Sun Wu (pictured), renowned for…
ALREADY! AND IF you’re panicking like I am about planning year-end dinners and organising gifts, I hope our year-end festive issue will help ease the stress. This month, Team Singapore Tatler has put together a celebratory read that captures the warmth, familial bonds, love and intimacy that Christmas brings. The true spirit of Christmas is really about rebirth and life, and what is life without celebrating all that’s worth living for —our health, family, friends and relationships? Speaking of celebrations, we bring the full coverage of all the action from our recent Ball to you, from p.68. The Fire & Ice theme saw ladies arriving in their creative numbers of reds, oranges, whites, ice blues and silvers, lighting up the Shangri-la Hotel’s Island Ballroom with electrifying energy. So many of…
HOW LONG HAVE THEY been friends?” “They’re so close, I think they’ve been friends for decades!” There was no recounting the number of times we heard a variation of that conversation among the crew during our cover shoot with Cecilia Cheung and Grace Chng. The best friends, who hardly need an introduction, tweaked their postures and facial expressions like the pros that they are. So in sync and at ease with each other were they that it’s hard to believe they first met just two years ago. In front of the camera, they were Hong Kong’s golden girls. Behind the lenses, however, they’re as close as sisters. From the way they tuck each other’s hair behind their ears and the casual exchange of tips on the best angles for the…
BULL FIGHTER Andre Lam has reviewed some of the world’s most powerful and luxurious supercars since 1996, and has more than 26 years’ experience as a motoring columnist. To the question of which is the best car, he says, “It’s the next one to be made. The automotive industry is a wonderful surge of technological advances pushing what we deem as perfection further toward nirvana.” This issue, Andre puts the Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce to the test at the Catalunya racetrack (p.284). TOYING AROUND George Hopkin started out writing obituaries for UK newspapers but moved on when he noticed a lack of positive feedback from his subjects. Since then he’s interviewed the living while working in Dubai, Los Angeles and France. Today he lives in rural southeast Spain with his wife,…
YES LAM TZE TZE Appreciation and appropriateness are key when it comes to gifting. When shopping for a gift, I have three simple rules: consider the occasion, how close I am to the recipient and whether I feel he or she would appreciate the gift. For close friends, I think about their likes and dislikes, and select a gift I feel they would enjoy instead of pegging monetary value with emotional value. For gift exchanges such as Secret Santa, it’s good to set a maximum price limit especially if the exchange is with acquaintances or colleagues you’re less familiar with. I believe it should be an implicit rule that you should avoid buying too expensive items. Gifting isn’t about oneupmanship, because it should represent your affection and appreciation for your…
Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking made their names in mathematics. So did Srinivasa Ramanujan. The Indian mathematics wizard is the subject of the film The Man Who Knew Infinity—the first feature by Singapore-based Xeitgeist Entertainment Group—which makes its Asian premiere at the 26th Singapore International Film Festival on December 4, at Marina Bay Sands. Directed and written by Matthew Brown, the film stars Jeremy Irons (left) and Dev Patel (right)…
