Credits
All images of the #SGFASHIONNOW exhibits are courtesy of Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.
All rights reserved. No reproduction full or partial, including the design of the cover, is permitted. No permission is granted to store or transmit this material, by any means available or made available in the future, unless it is so stated in writing by the owners of the rights. ISBN: 978-981-18-4882-7
EDITORIAL DIRECTION
Nadya Wang
Circe Henestrosa
ART DIRECTION AND DESIGN
C+C&Co
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Daniela Monasterios-Tan
LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Professor Steve Dixon
SCHOOL OF FASHION
Staff
Circe Henestrosa
Daniela Monasterios-Tan
Nadya Wang
STUDENT CURATORIAL TEAM
Ethan Lai
Leonard Wong
Vrinda Maheshwari
Student Programmes and Communications Team
Ethan Lai
Sophie Tan
Chan Jian Hong
Ong Xiao Xuan
Hu Enhua
TEXTILE AND FASHION FEDERATION OF SINGAPORE (TaFF)
Ho Semun
Leonard Choo
Partheban G K
ASIAN CIVILISATIONS MUSEUM
Kennie Ting
AUDIENCE
Lum Jia Yi
Deborah Lim
CURATORIAL
Dominic Low
Exhibitions
Jenica Rose Jimenez
Arielle Lau
Ezekiel Wong
Marketing
Ian Liu
Claudia Ho
Raymond Tham
Trudy Tan
JUDGES
Circe Henestrosa
Head, School of Fashion,
LASALLE College of the Arts
Kennie Ting
Director, ACM-TPM; Group Director of
Museums National Heritage Board
Madeleine Ho
Director, Marketing Communications &
Programming Design Singapore Council
Ho Semun
CEO, Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF)
Tjin Lee
Founder, Mercury Marketing & Communications
EXHIBITION DESIGN
FARM
MODELS
Andrea Razali
Zoe Zora
PLATINUM ANGELS MANAGEMENTMono Noor Othman
MISC. MANAGEMENTLucas Jong
Alley Teo
Lisa Van Duren
Manasi Nair
Alyssha Hannah
Nandita Banna
HAIR
Junz Loke
Edward Chong
MAKEUP
Kenneth Chia, assisted by Lucas Tan
LENDERS
ASIAN CIVILISATIONS MUSEUMAshley Isham Studio
MAX.TAN
Thomas Wee
SINGAPORE STORIES 2021 WINNERJon Max Goh
LASALLEbiro
Bryan Yeo
Closet Children
CHARLES & KEITH
FIN Crafted Goods
GINLEE Studio
HARRY HALIM
Joshua Suarez
LABAL
LINAOTH
Putri Adif
Shawna Wu
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SUPPORTED BY
Closet
Children
Closet Children founded by Rachael Cheong creates collections of wearable art inspired by dystopian fantasy and storytelling
The Iron Maiden
Stainless steel, anodized aluminium, glass beads, and Swarovski crystals
Rachael Cheong
Singapore, 2022
Reinterpreting this device through research on Barbara Creed’s ideologies of monstrous femininity and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, Cheong fashions it into armour for women and divests the association of the iron maiden with male violence towards women.
Designed by Rachael Cheong of Closet Children, this mask finds inspiration from the medieval torture device called "iron maiden". Reinterpreting this device through research on Barbara Creed’s ideologies of monstrous femininity and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, Cheong fashions it into armour for women and divests the association of the iron maiden with male violence towards women. The drapes of the mask, made with stainless steel and anodized aluminium chains, mimic the chainmail of battle armour. They create a fluid structure resembling lace patterns, and are embellished with Swarovski Crystals and Stainless Steel body piercings
Closet Children, founded by Rachael Cheong, creates collections of wearable art inspired by dystopian fantasy and storytelling. She graduated from School of the Arts, Singapore, in 2012 in Visual Arts and from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, London, in 2017 with a BFA in Fashion Design. Now based in Singapore, Cheong’s designs explore submissive and traditional portrayals of femininity in order to challenge and dismantle them.