The Paris-based designer’s blend of East and West hit home as the gala celebrating the museum’s 25th anniversary raised up to a record-breaking 1.3 million Singapore dollars.
As the island nation shakes off the last of the COVID-19 pandemic and visitors — mainly Western and South Asian for now — make their return to the city, it felt like the moment to show how “cultures and civilizations have always been in contact with connecting and mutually interacting with each other,” and “that we don’t exist in silos and never have,” Ting told WWD.
In Lee’s eyes, the institution’s exploration of Asia’s history and position as a connecting global hub was “vital on the national and diplomatic level” as it signaled the country’s “spirit of openness to people and ideas from across Asia and the globe,” regardless of their race or creeds. To Yoong, this wide range of profiles highlighted the way Gn’s designs were “used by celebrities to project glamour and also as a form of power dressing internationally,” with royals and first ladies seeking the designer’s classic elegance and famous faces attracted to his ability to “strike that difficult balance between maximalism, opulence and yet being subtle.”
Among the most important pieces in the 112 on display was a long balloon-sleeved gown from his “Hope and Glory” fall 2021 collection, printed in chinoiserie motifs embroidered with glass beads. For Yoong, it epitomizes the back-and-forth between Eastern and Western gazes, with Gn reprising landscapes and figures from an English screen from his personal art collection, itself inspired by Chinese Coromandel screens.
That much was clear during a later visit of the ACM’s sister institution, the Peranakan Museum, where the designer supplemented the docent’s explanations with gusto, adding colorful evocations of his family’s home, the traditions that underpinned anything from furniture choices to traditional jewelry, and details on specialized crafts.
“It’s really nice to see who wore these clothes and where, almost like milestones of history, and seeing the power of fashion and clothes, uniting all kinds of nationalities, all kinds of events,” she continued. “Like us being here, just celebrating humanity and celebrating life. That’s what fashion should be: fun and uniting people.”
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