Your ultimate guide to everything fabulous and fun in Singapore

Nestled between Tangs and the Grand Hyatt stands a new shopping hero, Scotts Square. With Hermes and Michael Kors calling you with their street facades, we take you on the inside with our pick of the stores. Anne Fontaine The French Brazilian designer has built a 70+ worldwide store consortium around her hallmark white shirt selection. Fontaine is a regular in Vogue, Numero and Marie Clare with her fabulous collection of tops, knits, accessories, Italian leather belts and bags. We love: All shirts in her high-end line are machine washable! Where: Anne Fontaine, #01-01/02, Scotts Square Michael Kors The all-American ...read more

Here's a mind-boggler: if love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Frankly, we don't really care, because if it feels this good then we're certainly not complaining. We've sourced five great boutiques to help you feel and look irresistibly divine: The Lingerie Shop Of course this had to make the list. Surrounded by exclusive, top-of-the-line imports from Europe, the Lingerie Shop even offers customization services. Want to customize your bra to fit that stunning dress? Well now you can. Where: Palais Renaissance, 390 Orchard Road, #02-10, Singapore 238871 La Perla Remember that trend where women started wearing their underclothes ...read more

Fashion can be tricky. Clothes are seasonal, trends are expensive, and buying mass-produced items always leaves you in the danger of turning up in something someone else is already wearing. A one-stop solution? Shop vintage. Here we've rounded up five of Singapore's best vintage boutiques. 1. Stevie General Store A relatively new kid on the block to excite vintage aficionados and newbies. Storeowners Bridget and Hwee Yee personally source their items from all over the world and make it a point to keep their prices low. As a bonus, the service here is impeccable: Bridget tailors her recommendations based on ...read more

One thing we love love love about Singapore... is the opportunities! Now, for the fashionistas, designers and wanna-be fashion stars - here is your opening of a life time. Asia's aspiring fashion designers have just under a month to get their submissions in for Star Creation, the Asia-wide fashion design competition, and vie for their spot on the runway at the May finals in Singapore. Registration for the competition closes on 31 January. So far, entries have already poured in from over the region, with an especially strong showing from Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This year's theme, Fashion Without Frontiers, ...read more

Twenty old tees. Four faded and tight(?) jeans. Three scarfs that seem to go with ... well, nothing. Does your wardrobe choke in clothes and yet somehow has nothing you want to wear? Un huh. It's clear. You need a wardrobe makeover. Much like a personal makeover, a wardrobe makeover is best done with a stylist and a shopping spree to boot. And good news for one lucky reader, we have teamed with VamaStyle to giveaway just that. We have a personal styling session with VamaStyle's Creative Director Kaitie Manani plus $250 to spend on VamaStyle's collection to giveaway! You ...read more

Why oh why do we have to suffer through a winter fashion season - when *NEWS FLASH* Singapore, we don't have winter here. It's just baffling really. Thank the lord for those independent all-summer labels like Vamastyle. We have been a big fan of Vama since this sassy label launched in Singapore just 12 months ago. Local designer & Vama's Creative Director Kaitie Manani brings together vibrant hues (think hot pink, fire engine red, jewel blues, tangerine, peach and sunshine yellow) and classic styles that are just perfect for beach to bar and day to night. The Flirt Collection has ...read more

We like Retail Therapy. We like it a lot. So when we heard the stylish duo of Retail Therapy has launched its own unique private label, we got a wee bit excited. Aptly called Out For Lunch the range is designed for the Singapore climate and lifestyle. Fun and flirty the range is easy wearing, casual but dressy enough to move from day to night. The collection includes shorts, tops & tees, dresses, cardigans, jewellery and a stunning collection of python skin bags and snazzy wallets. Expect bright neon colours (oh-so-this season) along with more muted tones of greys and ...read more

Q: What do you get when you get three fashionistas in hot pursuit of vintage treasures for a worthy cause? A: Robe Raiders, the Robin Hoods of Singapore fashion. Robe Raiders, aka co-founder of Retail Therapy Claudia Sondakh, ex-Editor of Female magazine Sarah Tan and designer Resham Melwani (of Jay Gee Melwani Group pedigree) are raiding wardrobes of their fashionable friends and colleagues in the quest for fabulous fashion finds. These three intrepid followers of fashion have a single-minded goal: turning closets inside out to unearth fashion treasures long forgotten or rarely worn. From covetable luxury labels and past season ...read more

So we are a little bit excited (ok, very excited...) about the H&M opening this Saturday 3 Sept at 11am. As you probably have seen the eye-catching billboards, the store is located at Orchard Building, right at the heart of Orchard Road. This flagship store has a 30,000 square feet space that spans across three levels with fashion and accessories for everyone. Yippee! And although the store is opening with their Autumn 2011 range...think distinguished and well composed browns, camel, burgundies and cream, with a dash of 70's style with longer lengths and wide trousers that look great with chic ...read more

Wonder-no-more Singapore....We have found the top secret fashion go-to location... Yue Hwa. We are serious. We headed out on a fact finding mission... and amongst racks of auntie-licious pieces, we managed to score some contemporary cuts and colours, imitating runway looks and quality ...at Chinatown prices! Here is your go to guide to the amazing finds in the legendary Yue Hwa store. Bold Found: the perfect oversized blouses in bold, hand painted silk designs to throw on for easy poolside chic, or team up with sassy tailored shorts and pumps for some summery city loving. Starting at $59 (gasp!). Block ...read more

Mirror Mirror on the wall who's the fairest of the all? You, our favourite new Club Street haunt, Ana Boutique, are the fairest on the island. With your savvy mix of hard-to-find international designers, as well as a few renown fashion labels (Fleur Wood, Coco Ribbon, Little Joe Woman, Rodeo Show... to name a few...), Snow White doesn't stand a chance. We maidens are swooning over your beautiful resort wear, your glamorous cocktail dresses, (delivering that deadly rock-chick look.... Look out evil step mum), and your range of luxurious basics. Not to mention those killer accessories. Even a dwarf would ...read more

The best thing about our year-long summer climate? Resort Wear. Resort Wear 2012 is just about winding up in the fashion capitals across the world; leaving us inspired by this season's bright and bold colourful collections... And if there is just one colour we can't live without this season... it's the ultimate yellow. Shades of acid yellows have been around for the last few seasons and it looks as though they are here to stay. Here are five local selections and where to get them! Cas lee Python bags, available online and also at Quintessential (9 Scotts Road, #02-01 Pacific ...read more

Can't find good swimwear at affordable prices, that keeps all your bits in...? Yep, we know about it. That's why we couldn't keep our lycra on when this little news hit our inbox... that number one Australian swimwear brand Seafolly has opened its first international shop right here at Wisma Atria. Thank you lord. And it's not a little store, it's a lovely 100sqm store marking the first of many global stand-alone stores for the swimwear giant who plans to expand to the US and UK markets later in 2011. With chic wooden floorboards and clean design this store oozes ...read more

As if shopping online was addictive enough, now we have a huge range of local Singapore sale sites that offer amazing brands at bargain prices...click click click! So rather than struggle in the crowds, pound the pavement and wait in the long queues, find your next bargain buy online. Whether it be a new Miu Miu, Marc or Gucci bag, or kids products like Crocs, Nintendo and Swatch, surf these sale sites first to nab a bargain at 30-85% off! Foxysales A local website (run by two French entrepreneurs) that has loads of great kids gear, fashion, accessories, home décor, ...read more

If you are like us, you like the little independent peeps of Singapore, with their creative, interesting and darn right cool products. That's why we are loving the Great Singapore Stores, a collection of 18 independent stores that are banding together to create the Great Supernova Sale (try not to confuse with the Great Singapore Sale). Participating stores include, Birds & Co., Books Actually, Cat Socrates, Crazyworld Cafe, Ethos Books, Foreign Policy Design Group, Loysel's Toy, Objectifs, Papa Palheta, Rockstar by Soon Lee, Sinema Old School, The Steeping Room, The Little Happy Shop, ThirtySix, Vanguard, Woods in the Books, 13 ...read more