Happy International Women’s Day!    “I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.” Erin Van Vuren . It all began in the early 1900s. Did you know, the first observance of a Women’s Day was reportedly held on February 28, […]

Usher in the Year of the Dog with bark, bite and some serious bling.   “Cheers to a new year, and another chance for us to get it right.” Oprah Winfrey   For the Chinese, this is no doubt a busy, busy week. The Lunar New Year is only days away. On Thursday, the eve, you will gather […]

  “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Friedrich Nietzsche It’s February, and we can’t help ourselves. Love has been on our minds. Did you know that there are, apparently, 97 million love songs in the world, and counting? Wise men and women from time immemorial […]

Look no further than the recent Golden Globes’ red carpet.   Diana Vreeland once said that “black is the hardest colour in the world to get right”. But “hard” was hardly an obstacle to a group of determined, passionate and powerful women on a mission to do what’s right. On January 7, 2018, these women […]

  Do you remember your first kiss? The first time a boy told you, “I love you’? Do you remember the first time you explored a foreign city all by yourself with nothing but a map and a whole lot of mixed feelings from trepidation to thrill and liberation? What about your first job interview? And the first […]

For the woman who is extra ordinary.   Can you feel it? As the rain falls, as fairy lights dance, as Michael Bublé reminds us to look away from our electronic devices and look around — because it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, can you feel that love is, indeed, all around? It’s […]

. Ase Wang is excited. For the model-slash-actress-slash-entrepreneur, the end of the year is her fresh start. “It’s cleansing, like a restart button. So I get quite excited,” she says. It’s also a time that she likes to spend with her parents. “I’m the only child, we’re a tight-knit family, so it’s just the three of […]

Some of the most important lessons we have learned in life we have learned from the most important women in our lives. Women who have raised us and supported us. Women have seen us through our best days and our worst. They’ve listened to us whine about bosses and boyfriends. They’ve told us with brutal honesty that cutting our bangs […]

. “Can you believe Christmas is only four weeks away?” “Where has the year gone?” Various versions of the above rhetorical questions have been asked by almost everyone we meet of late. Yes, indeed, time is a stealthy one, isn’t she? How deftly she moves, like a ninja, week after week, month after month, year […]

When it comes to earrings, it’s time to take a stand and make a big statement. “Statement earrings are what shoes were to Carrie Bradshaw for a generation who wear Stan Smiths.” — Business of Fashion   The jewellery jury has spoken: Forget small is beautiful. When it comes to earrings, bigger is officially better. Not […]