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Hong Kong style tipsi

From street style to designer wear, Hong Kong trendsetters share their fashion secrets, family heirlooms and favourite brands.

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From Prada’s Panerai watch tie-up and vintage Celine designs on Vestiaire Collective, to Jean Paul Gaultier’s long-overdue collab with Jimmy Choo – creative collaborations are delivering this autumn

Often mild temperatures mean a layered approach to menswear with warmer wools and cottons, allows for personal expression with colours and patterns

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Trying to choose a wedding dress in a sea of options is daunting, so we asked the experts for their top tips on how to find the perfect dress based on both body type and desired silhouette

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Now that everyone from designers to social media influencers and musicians are wearing these protective accessories, the surgical mask has emerged as a fashion symbol

Stylist Grace Lam is a contributing editor at Lane Crawford and creative stylist for luggage brand Ookonn. While she has been in the fashion industry for more than 20 years, she lives by the rule of less is more.

‘Like, where is this guy going?’ Laura Li thought the first time she met Hiro Kinoshita wearing animal-print pants. Today she pairs his T-shirts with Céline.

Laura Cheung, Hong Kong boutique owner and a fan of colours, prints and patterns — think Dries Van Noten, Etro, Giambattista Valli – threw out all her husband’s American khaki pants in favour of a sharper, more European silhouette.

It was Jacqueline Au’s search for a wedding dress that inspired her to open her boutique; when she hit on a Giambattista Valli dress with a 40-yard train, it had to go into storage for a year. Her everyday style is simple: monochrome and heels.

When Justin Ng finds something he really likes, he doesn’t hold back: with one pair of slim-fit Acne Studio jeans, he owns them in eight different colours.

His style, he says, is ‘similar to how I like my artwork to be – cool with a sense of humour and quirkiness’; Lau pairs mass-market tops and pants with sneakers, always white, set off by colourful socks and a vintage watch from his collection.

Hong Kong-born Charlotte Chen, who moved to Singapore four years ago, is the founder of skincare label Everyday for Every Body. We travelled to the Lion City to check out her quirky and fun wardrobe.

Zara Wong is the fashion features and content strategy director of Vogue Australia. The editor, who has worked in New York and Hong Kong, opens up her home and shares her wardrobe favourites

Influenced by his upbringing in Atlanta, Maeland lives and breathes street culture and street wear. We turned the lens on him to see what’s in his wardrobe

For this communications specialist, it is important to have outfits that fit both formal occasions and networking time, with bold accessories to ‘power up’ the look. She’s a fan of Hermes, Chanel, and Gucci, and of jewellery from Tiffany

Whether he’s getting sweaty and dirty at work in shorts and T-shirt, East-meets-West mix-and-matching in mandarin collars and jeans, or sporting flea- market bargains, the designer aims for comfort with a statement

Finding constant inspiration from his trips to Italy, See loves the romance behind a piece that comes from getting to know the person who made it and their reason for doing so

Echoing her company’s philosophy of reducing waste and overconsumption, Woo finds herself mixing and matching her colourful existing wardrobe items rather than buying new ones

Kwok is a fan of hand-embroidered pieces that are easy to mix and match, and fitted tops and loose bottoms, while she tries to avoid following trends