Last Friday night (also coincidentally, the eve of Halloween), the fashion crowd were out in full force celebrating the grand opening of the latest Dolce & Gabbana store, right at a prime spot of Singapore’s chic-est new mall ION Orchard. They sure know how to party the Italian way, it was simply a night full »

Numéro Korea May ’09 Abbey Lee & Karmen Pedaru ph by Mariano Vivanco L’Officiel Singapore October ’09(2nd Anniversary issue) Frizzy red hair, Burberry coats, double the fierce models… can you see the similarity? Rip-off or just plain inspired… between two different magazine empires? [images: models.com, l’officiel Singapore facebook

Just two weeks ago Vogue Paris stirred up controversy for colouring Lara Stone’s skin into a dark, near brown tan for an editorial ph by Steven Klein (see full spread here). It’s a misstep on Carine’s part that the spread is linked with racism, if they would like to feature a black model for a »

These have been set up for quite a while, but not really hugely publicized so fyi, here are the several ways to track Rock The Trend — events, updates, news, videos and unseen photos will be constantly uploaded to the following places: Twitter Facebook group Facebook page Youtube A new look/layout is coming your way »

V magazine, as early as ever, is already featuring Cruise ’10 pieces in editorials. Coming up right this minute is the sneak preview of ‘Pin Me Up, Pin Me Down’ featuring Victoria Secret babes Miranda Kerr and Ana Beatriz Barros as postmodern pinups under Willy Vanderperre’s (who shoots all the Jil Sander campaigns) sleek, high »

Excuse my blurry phone camera pictures, but here’re a few snaps of Max Tan’s all-white collection. The pictures obviously don’t do the collection any justice, see the full show video here. Max Tan’s pieces were a clear standout on Friday. Well, Gian Romano’s was close second (if not for the similarity to Rick Owens + »

Found this picture of the Kaiser in 1983 in the latest Teen Vogue (Nov ’09), doing a fitting for Inès de la Fressange. You can hardly find a picture of him without his signature shades on these days… no? Enough Karl talk, the news of the Spring ’10 Chanel campaign is out courtesy of WWD. »

In the movie ‘The September Issue’, Anna was correcting Elissa Santisi what she thought was a scarf is actually a ‘neck brace’. And now came Burberry, who introduced the ‘Snood’, a scarf-like neck warmer that can be worn over practically anything from t-shirts to daywear, as shown on the runways of Burberry Fall ’09. I’m »

According to WWD, Mert & Marcus will be shooting the Gucci Spring 2010 campaign, which means Inez & Vinoodh are losing yet another  loyal client to the duo, who are gathering an impressive portfolio of brands from Miu Miu to Armani to DSquared2. Judging by the Gucci Cruise ’10 campaign, M&M have certainly gone back to »

Photographed by Benny Tan Model: Valeria Kazakova Makeup & hair: Sherrine Clothes all made by me.