Page 144 - Philippine Tatler (April 2019)

SINGAPORE

PEK LAY PENG

Pek owns SocietyA, a
multi-label fashion retailer
that curates up-and-
coming Asian designers.
Headquartered in
Singapore, its mission is
to elevate Asian brands
and make them accessible
to shoppers around
the world. Named Best
Dressed at the 2018
Singapore Tatler Ball,
Pek, soon to have her DAWN KOH
third child, manages to
maintain great style while When it comes to couture and cakes, Dawn’s
running her fashion empire credentials are second to none. She’s a
and working as executive graduate of Central Saint Martins and the
director of the Shingda London College of Fashion as well as
Group of Companies, a Le Cordon Bleu. Voted Best Dressed at the
Singaporean construction Singapore Tatler Fashion Awards in 2017, Dawn
group owned by her family. is known for her cutting edge style—clean lines,
and bold twists of colour and texture. She co-
founded ultra-decadent cake shop Chalk Farm
with her brother Bryan in 2010.

MAE TAN

This key opinion leader has mastered the business
of fashion at just 24 years of age. Mae is creative
manager of Surrender, a multi-label menswear retailer VELDA TAN
that began as a small boutique in Singapore’s Raffl es Fashion and food
Hotel, and now owns Japanese are Velda’s two
brand Ch great passions. The
distribute entrepreneur is the
brands in founder and creative
Malaysia director of apparel
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operator, Label, Our Second
more tha Nature, and Our Mini
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under the of trendy lobster shack
@marxm Pince & Pints with her
a local co husband, Frederick
called Sin Yap. She’s particularly
with Netfl passionate about
father, Da empowering women to
Tan, runs achieve in business. In
luxury wa 2016, she co-founded
brand Galboss Asia, a
Richard networking symposium
Mille Asia that brings together

entrepreneurial women.

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