between the lines
“I really respect how Riz Ahmed stands up for what he believes,” says journalist Mike Christensen, who interviewed the Oscar- nominated actor about his role in standout 2020 film Sound of Metal. “Something that he said in our interview has really stuck with me: ‘the most powerful thing you can do in the bigger fight for representation is to defiantly present who you are’.”
The spring/summer 2015 collection of Louis Vuitton photographed in Jaipur, India, which provided inspiration to its then-artistic director of menswear, Kim Jones.
For its spring/summer 2018 collection, Balenciaga explored the concept of fatherhood. “It felt so natural to us to take the familial theme of fathers and sons and extend it further to include grandfathers-to take the intended potential of a collection and showcase it at its extreme end,” says Ronald Leong, who photographed the story in parks around Singapore.
Intimate portraits of Malaysia-born actor and singer Christopher Lee, for our August 2016 issue.
Couple dressing, but make it chic. Five real-life Singaporean duos showed us their his-and-hers wardrobes for the February 2015 issue.
Munah and Hirzi, the self- proclaimed founding princess and prince of Singaporean YouTube, photographed by Ronald Leong for the January 2018 cover.
Vinny Sharp, photographed for the April 2018 issue.
A profile of actress Vanessa Fernandez, told in comic-strip form by deputy editor Wayne Cheong and artist Xiao Yan.
“I did quite a few phone interviews with up-and-coming actors in 2020 and they were all memorable in their own ways,” Singapore’s style director was certain to be one of the biggest Asian—led movies of the year, but the idea of being part of a project that’s a retelling of a beloved classic—an animated Disney one at that—continues to intrigue me. There’s such immense pressure in being able to live up to the original and I wanted to find out how and why a relatively new actor would even put himself through it.
