Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2022 i Tatler Singapore

TATLER HONG KONG As she prepares to sign off a storming year in showbiz with a new album, singer Janice Vidal opens up on a range of frank topics, including succeeding in a male-driven industry, finding someone to be with long-term, and a new song that will explore challenging and sensitive issues that have affected the women in her life. TATLER INDONESIA Farwiza Farhan is an environmental activist from Aceh and one of Tatler Indonesia’s Gen.T honourees, whose life mission is to save the Leuser Ecosystem, an area of forest in northern Sumatra. After being included on Time magazine’s Time100 Next 2022 list, she shares her journey to changing her country for the better. TATLER MALAYSIA Asia’s Most Influential honouree Khailee Ng, managing partner at venture capital firm 500 Global,…

DANIEL NADEL Photographer Daniel Nadel has worked in both Sydney and London shooting for clients such as L’Officiel, Net-A-Porter and Wonderland Magazine. His personal work focuses on film photography due to his love of the variation and imperfections in how images turn out. Nadel shot this month’s fashion shoot. (p.62) KY CHAN KY Chan has worked as a professional illustrator and visual artist for over 30 years, and his pieces have been displayed in both solo and group exhibitions. In this issue, he turns his brush and watercolour paints to the story of shochu’s expansion outside Japan, as creative distillers respond to a shrinking domestic demand for alcohol. (p.166) RACHAEL FAIR With over ten years of experience and a recent tenure at Vogue Australia, Fair is a multidisciplinary creative working…

The bags that Yuki Yang designs are objects of luxury. You can tell from the sturdy feel of the leathers and exotic skins that are used in the making of the bags, and their smooth edges and clean lines that could only have been achieved at the hands of seasoned craftsmen. But the bag that started her journey to becoming a designer is much humbler. “It was an ordinary canvas messenger bag with a red pentagram printed on it,” says the founder and creative director of home‑grown luxury bag label Abara, on the gift that she received from her grandmother on her first day of elementary school. “It wasn’t that often that I was given gifts, and this was extra special because finally, I got the first bag of my…

US$1.4 BILLION Singer and cosmetics mogul Rihanna joined this year’s Forbes billionaire list thanks to her Fenty Beauty brand of skincare and make-up which, in addition to music, helps put her net worth at an estimated US$1.4 billion. US$ 4.2 billion Falguni Nayar, founder of e-commerce platform Nykaa, is worth US$4.2 billion, making her the richest self-made woman in India. She set up the company as a cosmetics retailer in 2012; it now carries more than 4,000 beauty, wellness and fashion brands. US$13 MILLION With a combined 64 million followers across social media platforms, Huda Kattan is one of the most successful beauty influencers. Her make-up brand Huda Beauty and recent skincare line Wishful contributed to her earning US$13 million in 2021. US$600 million Kylie Cosmetics is the most followed…

Editors's Pick A note of caution: the new additions to the Panthère de Cartier collection may consume you with their fierce brilliance. The collection’s star piece is the Panthère jewellery watch in white gold and diamonds. A sparkling panther head bites into the diamond-encrusted bezel bars, concealing a clasp that can be unlocked by pressing the panther’s ears. The white gold version has the option of a diamond-set dial; rose gold and yellow gold versions of the novelty are also available. Cartier Panthère de Cartier collection KASHMIR CALLING Ronald Abram’s collection of Kashmir sapphires now includes a 17.07 carat emerald-cut gem. This sapphire is classified as “royal blue” due to its impressive carat size and colour, making it a collector’s item. It comes from the Himalayas, where mining was permitted…

Delfina Delettrez Fendi has become a gem in her own right in the global jewellery industry. Growing up in the world of high fashion, the 35-year-old decided to break the family mould and forge a new path, with gold, diamonds, and precious stones serving as its foundation. Her efforts, in collaboration with Kim Jones, Fendi’s artistic director, and her mother, Silvia Venturini Fendi, have resulted in the launch of the Fendi high jewellery collection in 2022, the maison’s first since it was founded in 1925. Tell us about the inspiration behind, and the challenges of, the Fendi high jewellery launch. I started working on this parure, which marks Fendi’s debut in high jewellery, approximately one year ago. A big challenge was finding stones with the right intensity of colour and…

ASIA’S MOST INFLUENTIAL / SINGAPORE With more than 25 years in the real estate industry, it is unsurprising that PropNex executive chairman and CEO Ismail Gafoor should identify with the game of Monopoly, where players compete to build a property portfolio without losing their metaphorical pants. A favourite family pastime—and one which he consistently won until his children wised up to the strategies—it became an education tool that PropNex could use to teach consumers about residential property investment in Singapore. This May, the company launched a nationwide Monopoly competition, with the game tweaked to account for the city state’s different property segments, multiple home ownership and cooling measures. The key to winning, according to Gafoor, is the ability to make decisions. “Sometimes, you hold on to property for emotional reasons,…

Actor Ashley Tisdale sparked heated debate on social media earlier this year after she confessed to buying hundreds of books to fill her empty bookshelves purely for aesthetic value just days before a team from a magazine arrived to shoot a video of her home. “Any interior designer would have done the same,” Tisdale later wrote on Twitter. “They do it all the time—I was just honest about it.” She may be right. The desire to use books, and libraries, as part of home decor “has always been there”, agrees Keith Chan, founder of Hong Kong-based interior design firm Hintegro. Architect Dara Huang, who is the founder of London- and Hong Kong-based architectural and design practice Design Haus Liberty, agrees. “A feature library wall is something that will never go…

How does one become influential or come to be considered influential? This question stayed with the Tatler Singapore team as we began our annual task of compiling our Asia’s Most Influential (AMI): Singapore list. This year, we’ve challenged ourselves and put together 100 names to know; personalities who are impacting industries across architecture, real estate, finance, venture capital, sustainability, hospitality and more, who have contributed to Singapore in a major way in the past 18 months. We’re extremely pleased with the list we’ve come up with and truly believe that these individuals are worthy of the adjective “influential”. Among them is Ismail Gafoor, executive chairman and CEO of PropNex, Singapore’s largest real estate agency by sales staff, whom we’re spotlighting on our cover this month. The affable entrepreneur recounts his…

There’s a good chance you’ve danced to tunes spun by Amanda Keisha Ang, who goes by the moniker AKA. A regular on Singapore’s nightlife circuit, you’ll find her at venues such as Offtrack and Potato Head, where she dishes out a delicious sound that bends musical genres. “I’ve always had a love for soulful house, disco house and ’90s progressive house. I also grew up on hip‑hop, UK dubstep, jungle, breakbeats, nu jazz and trip‑hop,” says Ang, who describes her sound as “mostly with a character of bass or percussion heavy elements, but always with a dash of hip‑hop and dub, especially if they have some Asian sounds in the mix.” Ang is a go‑to name for major events, having DJ‑ed at parties hosted by Cartier and Gucci, at festivals…

COSY UP Supermodel and toddler mum Gigi Hadid can now add “creative director” to her profile, after she launched her own knitwear brand called Guest In Residence dedicated to cashmere. Drawing inspiration from cold days in New York, the luxury line features colourful unisex sweaters and cardigans, and cozy pyjama-style sets that offer a reassuring sense of home. To illustrate cashmere’s timelessness and intergenerational appeal, pieces for the brand’s first campaign, “Yearbook”, were modelled by a diverse group of people from newborns to centenarians. A LIMITLESS LIFE Louis Vuitton is remembering the late Virgil Abloh in a book about the brand’s former men’s artistic director who passed away in November 2021. Written by Abloh’s close collaborator Anders Christian Madsen, the book collects intimate narratives and images, and personal reflections from…

Many perfumeries around the world collaborate with “noses”—experts who have an extremely keen sense of smell. For French luxury beauty brand Guerlain, the go‑to person is Thierry Wasser, its in‑house master perfumer since 2008. As one of the oldest fragrance and beauty houses in the world, Guerlain, which was founded in Paris in 1828, needs no introduction. In the past decade, Wasser has been heavily involved in the creation of some of its bestselling fragrances, including cult favourite Shalimar as well as several new variations in the Aqua Allegoria and Haute Parfumerie collections. But the quintessence of Guerlain haute parfumerie is its L’Art & La Matière collection, which was first introduced in 2005. This year, the brand celebrates the first anniversary of its relaunch with three new fragrances: Oud Nude,…

Tell us about the 2022 Red Carpet Collection themed to “Chopard Loves Cinema”; what are some of your favourite pieces? The [75-piece] collection was inspired by iconic movies and moments in cinema. There are a lot [of pieces] I love personally, such as the rose brooch inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s first sound film, City Lights. Chaplin was my favourite actor as a kid and I purposely made the rose in black and white, because it was a black-and-white movie. I also like the pumpkin ring [that references Cinderella], which opens to reveal a diamond slipper. How did you select which films to take inspiration from? There are many things about a film that can inspire, from the jewellery worn in the film to the place it was shot to the…

FEELING BLUE Audemars Piguet’s Code 11.59 is back, and this time it comes with a hand-wound, openworked tourbillon movement, the calibre 2948. Limited to 50 pieces, the watch comes in a blue ceramic case, enhanced with an 18-karat white gold bezel. The superior craftsmanship features an openworked mainplate and bridges in shades of blue. A pink gold balance wheel is seen within the skeletonised framework, along with an openworked barrel. Audemars Piguet Tourbillon Code 11.59 ROYALLY YOURS A Lange & Söhne’s classic 1815 Chronograph will be offered at auction by Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo on November 6 at the Geneva Watch Auction XVI. The proceeds from the auction will benefit The Prince’s Trust, a charitable organisation for young people aged between 11 and 30 established by Britain’s…

Food is a catalyst for connection and comfort, a symbol of culture and collaboration that unites across divides. Its nourishment often goes beyond what we eat, as restaurants across Asia are showing by using food as a basis for enterprises that create social change and transform lives. Hong Kong-based social enterprise Gingko House empowers elderly people by giving them job opportunities while feeding people experiencing hunger through its Love Project, a programme that provides free meals to beneficiaries, who include homeless people, low-income families, senior residents and those who are unemployed. Thanks to volunteers and donors, 1,000 rice boxes are given out each day among four venues. “Our main focus is hiring senior citizens with financial and emotional needs,” says Kenneth Choi, Gingko House’s director of business development. Gingko’s story…

1 The Bag Put the pedal to the metal in fashion’s fast lane with Gucci’s sleek new metallic Jackie 1961 bag. 2 The Necklace Make Dior’s delicate Rose Dior Bagatelle necklace your crowning glory this season. 3 The Watch Race into November with the high‑octane Roger Dubuis x Pirelli Excalibur Spider Pirelli Monotourbillon on your wrist. 4 The Shoe Bring the party wherever you go with this standout pair from Loewe featuring oversized bows.…

Sabrina Ho admits that motherhood was never something she wanted for herself until recently. The high‑flying Singapore‑based Hong Kong native has always seen herself as a career woman, having built a successful recruitment profession for more than a decade before venturing out as an entrepreneur in 2019 to start Half The Sky (HTS), a career platform that connects female professionals with equal opportunity employers. “Some people just know that they were born to be mothers, but I was never that way,” says 38‑year‑old Ho. “I’ve always been a go‑getter and my focus has always been on my career.” But with the passing of her father a few years ago and the Covid‑19 pandemic, family became more important to her and she decided to start one of her own. This April,…

Career discovery and development platform Glints was established in 2015 “to bridge the gap between education and employment as well as solve the problem of talent shortages,” shares co‑founder Oswald Yeo. “We began very humbly by getting people to sign up for internships and companies to sign up for interns using Google Forms. We personally interviewed each candidate and employer, and matched them up.” Yeo was only 21 then, and as someone who dropped out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams, he understood the need to upskill and consistently better oneself—and the company’s goals began to shift a few years down the road. “We didn’t realise it at the time, but we were chipping away at something bigger. We weren’t just creating a job agency, we were creating an…

Two days after presenting one of the buzziest shows at New York Fashion Week spring-summer 2023, Peter Do is back in his studio in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighbourhood. He is wearing items from his fresh-off-the-runway collection for his Tatler photoshoot, as well as his signature face mask—a habit and preference he’d established way before the pandemic to symbolise his rejection of the fame accorded to designers rather than to their work. The room is filled with sunshine, shoe boxes and fitting boards from the show, working desks full of fabrics, sketches, and a cute photo of Uni, his Shiba Inu. The show was a blockbuster. Korean boyband NCT’s Jeno opened for Do in a double-breasted jacket over a white shirt—both with a cutout exposing a flash of his muscled back—and…

MOVE THE NEEDLE Grannycore, but make it luxe! Wrap up in knits and knitted accessories that could pass for homemade from a distance, but which, close-up, reveal the sort of workmanship that only comes from influential maisons de couture. SLIM PICKINGS Take only what you need—or what you can fit into this season’s skinny clutches and bags. These pieces force you to be selective about what you carry, but are still big enough to make an impact (and to hold more than a lipstick—we’re looking at you, Jacquemus Le Chiquito Mini). HELL-BENT ON LEATHER Embrace your inner cowboy and buckle up in leather. Make it weather-appropriate for Asia by pairing a single statement piece with cooler fabrics. Travel is back again, and it’s the perfect excuse to update your winter…

Christopher K Ho has been indulging his fascination with fax machines and mermaids. “There is magic in faxing,” says the artist of the almost obsolete communication method. “There are all these possibilities for transformation in the translation of one message to the other.” Ho is standing over a mock-up of his latest installation, an unexpected composition of three fax machines containing images of actress Daryl Hannah at different stages of her life, the most recognisable from her iconic role as a mermaid in the 1984 film Splash, co-starring Tom Hanks. The images in the output trays are glitchy versions of pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse’s 1900 painting A Mermaid, illustrating the persistence of the human obsession with mermaids. Ho further points out that faxes are untraceable and unhackable—opaque in a…