Pioneer of performance art Amanda Heng and Esther Tay, the first Singapore fashion designer to break into the Japanese retail market, were also inducted this year.
Eight women were inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame on Wednesday , making it 182 women who have been honoured for their outstanding achievements and contributions so far.
At its peak, Fashion magazine, written in Jawi, distributed about 100,000 copies monthly and drew “busloads of women” from Malaysia to its Singapore office on weekends. Another inductee is Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Lee Mei Yi, the first woman appointed to command a fighter jet squadron and who led the F-16 “bomb burst” at the last National Day Parade.One of the first artists in Singapore to explore feminist issues in her work and to use performance art to express her ideas.Pioneering fashion designer and entrepreneur, who at her peak had more than a dozen stores in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and London.
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