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TRAVEL T H E L U X E EDIT Essential fashion reading for the modern woman, only on BAZAAR’s Luxe Edit. This month’s edition launches with a personal look into the luxurious world of Chanel. Immerse yourself in the maison’s rich heritage, and discover the inspiration behind JOIN THE PACK the Cruise ’19 collection— Consider this your official call of the wild. The wildlife reserve of Port Lympne in with clickable links for England’s Kent is dedicated to the survival of endangered species, allowing visitors to incredible fashion experiences choose from myriad rooms and cottages for an intimate, up-close experience with the and shopping adventures. animals. At the Wolf Lodge, one of the more popular stays, you’ll find European grey wolves as neighbours. Click on harpersbazaar.my to discover this unique encounter with some of the most beautiful creatures in the world.

Two of BAZAAR’s judges, A tailored tweed look, Julie Anne Kang & Aina Primed for as seen in BAZAAR’s Syahirah, sharing a moment perfection Cruise ’19 ‘Collection Report’ in this month’s Luxe Edit

A FASHIONABLE LIFE Dato’ Rizalman Ibrahim and his muse at home L O N G L I V E T H E

KING BEAUTY What happens when a creative maestro curates AND THE AWARD GOES TO ... his own home? Plush Louis XVI-style living areas Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 returns with this decorated to thematic year’s crème de la crème. From multimasking to investing in an perfection. Malaysian fashion designer Dato’ ornate jade roller, game-changing trends make it clear that Rizalman Ibrahim gives your beauty arsenal is never complete. Hear what our judges BAZAAR the exclusive invite into his home. Discover his have to say on their winning picks and the final word on ingenuity and insights, only on harpersbazaar.my beauty, on harpersbazaar.my.

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THE SHOP 34 Midnight Seduction 38 Fabulous At Every Age

THE LIST TSTHE STYLE 40 Season’s Must-Haves 662 L g y y 42 e A-List 66 C y 44 Waitlist 70 Up 46 10 ings We Love 772 y th You 50 Mary Vogt In 24 Hours

TAUTY THE NEWS 77 st Of Beauty 52 Couture Report 115 F ze Frame 1116 6 uty News 1120 0 ght Fever FASHION FEATURE 58 e Master

Bag, Salvatore Ferragamo

THE FASHION 122 e Great Beauty A grand tour of Palazzo della Civilta Italiana with Fendi and Czech model Hana Soukupová 130 Silver Belle Adele Astaire’s glamour lives on in a 1930s remake in Ireland 136 Beetle Mania e most vibrant jewels, from an entomologist’s view

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Earrings, Chopard

THE FASHIONABLFASHIONABLEE LIFE 140 Coutur y e 146 Kitchen Alch y

TE FLASH! 166 Fashion Icons 168 zon THE CULTUCULTURER 169 S Pleasures 156 Bittersweet Sympho y 170 mertime Pops 159 Homecoming K g 17171 Suite Life 17172 uty On A High 173 sanal Aﬀ air

REGULARSGULARS 28 Editor’s Letter THE ESCA 332 Welcome To e Issue 160 Fine Chi An artful perspective 17474 e Buylines this rising world in the E 17575 e Horoscope 17676 e Inspiration

ON THE COVER STYLED BY MARIA VEDRAL KOHÚTIK PHOTOGRAPHED BY MATÚŠ TÓTH Hana Soukupová/My Model Agency wears dress; and stole, both from Fendi Haute Couture. Make-up by YSL Beauté. On face: Top Secrets Moisturizing Prep Lotion; Top Secrets Instant Moisture Glow; All Hours Primer; All Hours Foundation Stick; Touché Eclat; Couture Blush in N˚4 Corail Rive Gauche. On eyes: Dessin Des Sourcils in Glazed Brown; Couture Variation Palette in Nude; Eyeliner Effect Faux Cils; Mascara VEFC Flash Primer; The Shock Volumizing Mascara in Moir Asphatte. On lips: Rouge Pur Couture Set & Matte Lip Coat; Volupte Liquid Colour Balm in N°3 Shon Me Peach; Vernis À Lèvres Vinyl Cream in Beige Bounce. Hair: Martin Tyl/New You. Make-up: Ivanka Tokárska/Sensai. Photography assistant: Šimon Gut. Production: Patrik Bureš

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NATASHA KRAAL Editor-in-Chief

Assistant editor AUDRA ROSLANI Sub-editor NEN LIN SOO Editorial assistant TANIA ZAINUDIN

FASHION ART Fashion editor Art director AMY YASMINE HISHAN TENG SIEW LEE Fashion stylist Graphic designer MUGHNI CHE DIN MARIE LIM Head of digital imaging artist CHENG KIM LEONG BEAUTY Digital imaging art director Beauty writer NURUL AZWA BINTI ABU BAKAR ANNE LEE Senior digital imaging artist CHU KIM KEONG FEATURES Digital imaging artist Features writer SHUM WAI KENG

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Editor’sLETTER

Minaudière, Chanel

Necklace, Cartier ... if not a gloriously exuberant approach to life? In this age of the self, it’s characterised even more by expensive possessions and postcards of moments—yesterday’s private island is today’s polar adventure—almost to the compromise of that fi ner elegance we once imagined of a life well lived. Is it enough to “customise” everything with your initials, to seek 2,567 likes as validation, or to fake it till you make it? For me, the true value of luxury is the feeling for aesthetics, the appreciation of ingenuity, the desire Luxury fashion todayt d y for experience ... it simply cannot be is more elusive, than it i is exclusive. just stamped “limited edition”, It’s beyond the brand and object,obj toward a rather it encompasses a wide certain kind of knowing, which is also constantlyy and beautiful life of evolving. e recent haute couture shows,sh the highe g st form exceptional quality. of luxury, was an exercise in the notion.notio Front row at Fendi Haute Couture, now rebranded from HauteHa Fourrure in line with the times, I couldn’t quite tell the “guessing“guessing ggame” that I was in for until I was up close and personal with everyeve creation at the next day’s re-see. What I saw as multicoloured fur waswa actually frayed y chiff on, the chiaroscuro eff ect of astrakhan was made with densely sewn sequins, and plastic was improvised into truly fantastic as the new couture fabric. Karl Lagerfeld’s discourse on luxury today is so relevant and pertinent. I share my experience in the cover story ‘Masters e beauty industry of Illusion’ on page 125. And in the spirit is also where these dichotomies of the hottest movie of 2018, we have exist, where the thousand-dollar “hope in none other than Kevin Kwan a jar” has been challenged by the little organic talk about his time at Paris product that could. Talking to this year’s panel of Couture Week with the Harper’sHB BAZAAR Beautyeauty Awards judges has really beebeenn real-life Crazy Rich an eye-openerp in how w the market really responds to beauty Asians (page 66). products. ey arere looking beyond the big name labelabels,ls, towards naturall ingredients, ethical status, value-for- value-for- money, and realeal approachability. It was interesting to hhear the views ws of aesthetician Dr Teh Jia Li, as welwelll aas celebrity make-up artist CK Bong, who brought sso much ddimensionimension to the project. We announce tthe Hot 100 award winners, with the personal, honest reviews by the judges—befi tting Heels, honest reviews by the judges—befi tting Gucci the beauty philosophy of today, of being life-enhancing and made with kindness. 

Natasha Kraal

www.facebook.com/harpersbazaarmalaysia www.harpersbazaar.my @harpersbazaarmy DRESS, FENDI. ART DIRECTION: TENG SIEW LEE. PHOTOGRAPHY:HAIR: ROBIN GRACE LIEW. LEONG (COLOUR); CKAY LIOW (STYLING). MAKE-UP: CK BONG

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WELCOME TO THE ISSUE

From dreamy velvets redefining sensual dressing (page 34) to jackets so intricately bejewelled they resemble a celestial universe (page 58), this issue has everything dedicated to haute couture and epic experiences. Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards returns this year with a stellar line-up of luxurious top-to-toe beauty treats; couture client OGs in ‘Crazy Rich Couture’ give best-selling author Kevin Kwan an insider’s exclusive on their fashion week rendezvous; and in a rare, never-before-seen feature, iconic Malaysian designer Dato’ Rizalman Ibrahim opens up his breathtaking modern mansion. The richness of the visual and visceral continue in ‘Kitchen Alchemy’, where Michelin-starred experiences and plated inspirations of the world’s most brilliant chef minds transform the way food stories are told. If November is about doing all things in fabulous excess, it best be this substantial. 

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Dress; and skirt, both from Tory Burch. Heels, Longchamp. Earrings; and rings, all from Chopard.

36 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Dress, Louis Vuitton.

Hair: Ckay Liow Make-up: Cat Yong Model: Giovanna M/Wu Models

E A S T I K A L R Embody the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood in a silky black dress dripping in shimmering sequins.

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s 1. Earrings, RM2,337, Do Parisian chic in 20 Oscar de la Renta 2. Coat, subtle sequins and heritage RM3,546, Vivetta

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5. Watch, RM74,529, Hermès

6. Necklace, 5 Simone Rocha s 7. Shoes, MakeMake a statementstateme 30 RM3,939, Gucci in glossy reds and 6 extras that seal the deal.

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4. Dress, RM1,848, Self-Portrait 2 5. Necklace, RM1,278, Marni

6. Bag, RM8,111, Saint Laurent

7. Shoes, Salvatore Ferragamo s 3 50 4 Reimagine romantic discodi through gauzy lace dresses, ﬂ embellishments, and yellow pops.

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F U T U R E 3 1. Hat, Rag & Bone PERFECTPERFECT 2. Coat, RM3,527, MM6 Maison Margiela

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4. Coat, RM4,152, Kassl at FarFetch.com

4 5. Sunglasses, Versace

6. Boots, Marc Jacobs

7 7. Denim skirt, RM4,359, Loewe

8. Cuff, Cartier

COMPILED MUGHNI BY CHE DIN Gucci Autumn/ Winter ’18

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 39 Season’s Must-HaveMust-HaveLISTBazaar Bracelet, Saint Laurent

Coat, Moschino Geometric armlet for a dose of cool. 1 Enter the Matrix in a glossy vinyl coat. Bag, Fendi 2

Watch, Louis Vuitton 3 Logomania, but elegantelegant in white leather.

Watch out, this4 one’s a keeper. Boots, Off-White Shady dealings with a sporty visor.

Hat, Dior Necklace, Givenchy 6 7 Tough meets femme with silver-toned hardware and pearls. Great strides in Nancy Sinatra-approved boots. 5 COMPILED MUGHNI BY BY MUGHNI CHE DICHE DIN 40 HARPER’S BAZAARBA NOVEMBER 2018 8

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The Athenian House STYLE PICKS in Santorini Fashion maven and retail fashion consultant of Chrishoppe, Christina Ho, on her picks of the season.

There is no outfit emergency a great leather 1jacket can’t fix. This Alice + Olivia version in buttery lambskin and with punky metal bar

Jacket, detailing is my favourite purchase this season. Alice + Olivia Words cannot describe the magical feeling 2my family and I experienced while dining at The Anthenian House in Santorini back in 3 Nu Skin NaPCA 2016. The food was non-pretentious and Moisturizer exquisitely presented, topped off with the spectacular view of the caldera during sunset. Such a once-in-a-lifetime experience. When it comes to skincare, I’m very low- 3maintenance. NuSkin’s NaPCA Moisturizer effectively hydrates my skin and 2 protects it against dryness and ageing. One of the designers I adore is Karl 6 4 Top, Lagerfeld. I find it fascinating that he’s Jacquemus 4 been able to keep Coco Chanel’s legacy alive 5 through his designs for the iconic fashion Chanel Cristalle EDP house throughout these years. 7 My scent of choice is Chanel’s Cristalle 5EDP, which I’ve been using since Jacques Polge introduced it in the 90s. Its fresh floral finish smells heavenly. I love traditional pieces with an edgy YSL Beauté 6 Rouge Pur modern spin. This Jacquemus asymmetrical Couture The Slim Matte top ticks all the right boxes. Lipstick I hardly wear make-up, and when I do, it’s 7only a little. If the occasion calls for it, YSL Beauté’s Rouge Pur Couture The Slim Matte Chanel Lipstick is perfect for a touch of glamour. Autumn/ Winter ’18 When it comes to investing in a luxury 8handbag, it’s crucial to find a style you 8 Bag, Dior really, truly love. Dior’s Mini Lady Dior bag is the statement piece to seamlessly transition

9 from day to night. I am a shoe fanatic; I got my first pair of 9Manolo Blahniks 25 years ago in New Heels, Manolo York. These black suede pointy pumps with Blahnik gold ties are on my list of must-haves. Fope’s Flex’it bracelets are superb blends 10 of technology and craftsmanship. Three-dimensional bevelled rectangles are

10 Bracelet, Fope linked together, without soldering, into soft, sinuous structures that allow them to be  stretched to fit the wrist perfectly. COMPILED MUGHNI BY CHE DIN

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Wa i t LISTBazaar

AL FA N R TA O S L I F A

Minaudièr e, Cha nel

Another season, another mind-blowing Chanel presentation, another Karl Lagerfeld masterpiece— who can forget the très cute robot minaudières from Spring/ Summer ’17 and freight container miniatures at the Métiers d’Art Paris-Hamburg 2017/18 show? For Autumn/Winter ’18, Lagerfeld returned to a dark fantasy world, with an evening bag that sparkled and twinkled—sans Kirakira+ filter—down the gloomy leaf-strewn runway show at the Grand Palais in Paris. The bejewelled flower-shaped minaudière, made out of resin and completely encrusted in glistening pink and purple stones, is finished with a silver-tone metal sling intertwined with leather. With just enough space to get you through the night, it is as compact as it gets, and whether worn as a crossbody or over the shoulder, this one-of-a-kind bloom is set to make you a rose among the thorns. g

Price available upon request. Chanel, G18 & 19, Ground Floor, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2726 1818 DIN CHE MUGHNI TEXT:

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A classic caban crafted from sleeping bags and sliced packing foam at Maison Margiela Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18

10 THINGS WE LOVE Decadence gets an irreverent twist à la corrugated cardboard organzas, daytime disco glamour, and martini glass-shaped heels. By Amy Yasmine.

THE GAME-CHANGERLeave it to John Galliano at Maison Margiela to bring new meaning to “woke” couture.

For his latest Artisanal collection at the Belgianhouse, “comfort” was translated through quilted sleeping bags, while upcycling came in the form of cardboard organzas, 1 sliced packing foam, and oﬀ -cuts textiles bonded u sing traditional Chinese ge ba technique. . . . T S E B

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T H E L O O K : Giovanna Battaglia DAYTIME Engelbert does Heels, Gucci femme bot with a 2 romantic twist DISCO Make Studio 54 glamour work for day, just like BAZAAR’s street-style faves. Mash up relaxed denims with metallics, or do high-octane Heels, Dolce & Gabbana embellishments over luxe knits like Caroline Daur. Party on.

Germanier’s THE ONES TO KNOW out-of-this- world take on upcycling Make a statement— MARKARIAN get extra with these THE LOW-DOWN: standout designers. Designed by Alexandra O’Neill, Markarian combines O’Neill’s love of the cosmos and celestial romanticism with timeless design and modern grace. Carolyn Murphy, Anna Kendrick, and Emma Roberts Heels, are already fans. 4Amina Muaddi

GERMANIER AMINA MUADDI The 411: Formerly the junior designer at THE DEAL: A Milan-based street-style star Louis Vuitton’s leathergoods department, who moonlights as a shoe designer for French Swiss native Kévin Germanier has made couturier Alexandre Vauthier, Amina Muaddi giant waves with his ultra-feminine upcycled recently launched her eponymous label, with French supermodel Tina Kunakey as the face. designs. Part-disco, part-intergalactic, Making a splash with Think Muaddi’s designs look familiar? She was Germanier’s pieces feature prismatic bright neon against Dress, Markarian embellishments with sculptural ﬂ air. glistening pastel also the founder of cult shoe label Oscar Tiye.

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Lisa Lu as the elderly Coat, Stella matriarch and Gemma McCartney Chan as Astrid Leong in Crazy Rich Asians

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Coat, MODERN Coat, Givenchy MUSE Dries Van Noten Crazy Rich Asians’ Astrid THE FAUX-EVER PIECES It pays to go green. 6On Autumn/Winter ’18 runways, Leong has leaped from the silver screen and into our sustainability got chic makeovers, with fantasy faux fur coats hearts. Here, BAZAAR’s leading the movement. Your wardrobe revamp, starts here. guide to getting her look. Earrings, Chanel A N D Y C R C U E S H Bag, Valentino H T

Yoshino necklace Inspired by the Cartier brothers’ with emerald- travels throughout Africa and cut morganites, Asia, the French jeweller’s latest cabochon-cut opals, endeavour stuns with a 240-piece tourmaline beads, pink sapphires, strong collection. Take for example and brilliant-cut the Chromophonia necklace with diamonds, Cartier 22 emerald beads from Afghanistan weighing nearly 200 carats, or the Yoshino necklace, crafted with two emerald-cut morganites totalling Gemma Chan 55.18 carats.

Chromophonia necklace, Cartier

Dress, Rochas Sunglasses, Fendi

 Consider clean lines, but with luxurious ﬁ nishings. Think Lee Radziwill at a state dinner, or Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy.  Amp up classic looks with a statement OTT piece.  When in doubt, think pink.

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THET H E OFF O F F - D U T Y Rolex’s iconic UPGRADE Chronograph CATEGORY IS: Tesco, but makmake it Daytona, now updated fashion. On the streets of Milan and d in Rolex’s Paris, upcycled supermarché tote bags g proprietary got a futuristic update by way of f 9 Everose Gold translucent PVC. For a playful take,t look to Erica Pelosini Leeman, whow showcased her blinged-out ChanelCha T H E C U L T minaudière in a plastic shopper.shopper As they say, if you’ve got it, ﬂ aunt it. . INVESTMENT For the ﬁ rst time ever, Rolex has released its iconic Daytona in Everose Gold—the watchmaker’s 18-karat precious metal cast from its own foundry. Set with a gradation of sapphires in rainbow hues, the case is further adorned with 56 brilliant-cut diamonds set into its lugs and crown guard.

EEricarica PPelosinielosini Chronograph counters in pink LLeemaneeman gold crystal, a material with at Paris unique shimmering effect created CCoutureouture by the crystallisation of pink gold WWeekeek alloy, developed by Rolex Tote bag, Staud

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variations, this couture season’s ﬁ nal touches werweree more than just conversationconversation starters.

Case in point: Armani Privé’s ﬂ amingo-pink feathers that fully adorned stately evening gowns, and Karl Lagerfeld’s ingeniously crafted ﬂ e u r s from velvety plumes. PHOTOGRAPHY: IMAXTREE; SHUTTERSTOCK; TPG VIP IMAXTREE; TPG SHUTTERSTOCK; PHOTOGRAPHY:

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MARY VOGT in HOURS 24 The Emmy-nominated costume designer shares her day on and off the set of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’. By Amy Yasmine.

5AM I have a very simple, non-existent routine in thethe morning. I get up about a half an hour earlier to ddoo some exerciseexe and stretching, just to feel more energised. en, I’ll have breakfast.br I usually cook breakfast in the morning when I’m at home in LosLo Angeles, g but since staying in Kuala Lumpur for the length of the productionproduct of CCrazy y Rich Asians, I’ve started to cook vegetables in the morning. II’m’m startingg to really love mushrooms and spinach for breakfast, whwhichich I neverneve thought g I would before. I don’t eat wheat, so that cuts out a lot of breakfastbreak food. I pretty much wear the same simple thing every day, too—a blackblack T-shirt, Crazy Rich Asians costume designer Mary Vogt black sneakers, and black pants, despite the really hot climate. When you’rey in a fi tting with an actor, you don’t want to be wearing something too distractingdist g because it’s about them. You just want to fade into the background. 7AM I would had a driver when I was in both KL and Singapore, ssoo he’d already be waiting for me tot take me to the offi ce. During shooting months, our call time would be at 7am so we would usuallyusually leave around 5am to reach there. e team and I would havhavee a small discussion at the work roomroom wherew we made all the alterations and changes to the arraarrangements.ngements. en I’d talk to all mymy assistantsassistan to make sure they’d have something to do—they were so fast and effi cient that theythey often ran outo of f things to do! I had two main assistants, who also kknewnew all the local designers so wewe managed toto have a lot of things for the shoot, and I developed a clcloseose relationship with Kevin Kwan.Kwan. We wantedwante to use as many local talents as possible, so that it wouldn’t look like any other fashion movie. 99AMAM We’d all take off by 9, because the stores would opopenen by 9.30am. Depending on what scenesscenes werew scheduled for the day, they would make a list and wworkork through it. When the assistantsassistants gogo off , and the workroom was working on the clothes, I woulwouldd talk to costume supervisorssupervisors to makem The original sure we had money to pay for all the clothes. 10AM e actors would come in and I’dI’d do Marchesa dress the fi ttings for them, and then follow them to set ttoo see how they were doing. Luckily,Luckily, our worn in the fi lm, on the runway at workspace was really close to the set. Usually actors’actors’ fi ttings are never fun,fun, but we actuallyactually all Marchesa Autumn/ got along so well and enjoyed each other’s company. Sometimes we’d call AwkwafiAwkwafi na inin for Winter ’16 a fi tting, even though she wasn’t supposed to be there,there, just because everyoneveryonee loved herh so much. ere was an average of about 200 clothes on the rack, from Dior to DDolceo c Sisley Paris Sunleÿa 12PM Age Minimizing & Gabbana, on a 12-hour shoot every day! To be honest, I don’t Sunscreen Cream even remember having lunch. We had a little kitchen that we would sit Broad Spectrum SPF 50 to have coff ee at, but I don’t remember ever going to a restaurant to have lunch. Instead, we did fi ttings constantly throuthroughoutghout thethe shooting of the movie. We had quite an amount ooff BvlgBvlgari ri and Chopard on set.

Earrings, Chopard

Ring, Bvlgari

50 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Actress Constance Wu as Rachel Chu, wearing a Marchesa dress

Watch, Bvlgari

Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Young, whose jewellery mostly came from the actress’s personal vault

Michelle Yeoh would always wear real jewellery— never costume—and we would have big jewellers come and bring bbig g displays of jewellery for her. Being a jewellery collectorcollector herself, we werewere llucky ttoo be able to have local contacts come in with their own pieces of jewellery, aalthough gh other times she would bring her personal pieces.pieces. Because of the value of these ggems, there here were always guards on set to make sure the jewels were being properly taken cacare e oof. . 3.30PM I’m always at diff erent places, depending on who was scheduled to be in fi ttings.g Occasionally, I would talk to Natalie [Won[Wong,g, the fi lm’s fashion buyer] in HongHong Kong, or checkk with the team on the costumes being made. I did a fi lm in India during the shooting oof CCrazy zy Rich Asians as well, and had to juggle their needs on top of everything else. It was pretty hhectic. . If I’m back home however, I get involved in working with the Academy of MotionMotion Picture AArts aandnd Sciences. Over this weekend, I was invited to be a part of a panel for 808000 sstudents ents from high school and college, to talk about the fi lm indusindustry.try. 55PMPM OOn my daysdays off or free time, I draw. I like to learn, and there’s always somethings t g new.w. Sometimes I attend illustration classes on PhotoPhotoshopshop or Painter.P RRight ght now, I’m reading a book by the Harvard NegotiationNegotiation ProProject,je GeGettingtting To Yes. It’s about negotiating with people, and getting yoyouurr wawayy of things across without alienating them. 7.30PM Evenings Necklace, Chopard on the set of Crazy Rich Asians were always very fun. Being so tightlyightly knit, we’d go out and have dinners together. e cast aandnd crew who lived in Singapore would have dinners for for all tthehe out-of-town people, so we spent a lot of time together.together. At some point, my husband came to visit me in Singapore for three weeks, so we’d go out and have dinners together. Otherwise,Otherwise, I’d bbe oonn set; there was just too much work for us—we were even dressidressingng

An Elie Saab Haute tthe e eextras. t as. 99PM M We’dWe’d completely call it a day at about 9pm. I get a few hundred e-mailse-mails Couture Spring/ Summer ’17 look, every other day, but I keep it a point to have no unread e-mails by the time I go to bed. worn by Eleanor I’m actually quite minimalist when it comes to make-up, but if there’s one thing I Young in the ﬁ lm splurge on, it is skincare. I really love Sisley Paris, and I especially love the All Day All Year sunscreen because I live in California. ey also have an eye cream that is part of my night regime. ey’re not much of a money saver, but to me, I’m saving a lot on a face lift.  1 hours of2 shooting every day 3minutes0 of stretching pieces of clothes PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES; IMAXTREE GETTY IMAGES; PHOTOGRAPHY: 200 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 51 TheNEWS

H A U T E COUTURE AUTUMN/WINTER ’18

Toiles from the maison’s archive on display at the set of Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18

BAZAAR’s essential glossary to couture week’s most glittering collections. By Amy Yasmine. A close-up of the collection’s petit bows, embroidered Birds of a feather in 50 above a toile de Jouy motif shades of beige

DIOR toile /twa:l/; noun

1. A prototype of a finished garment that is usually tested and improved on. 2. Derived from toile de Jouy, a type of printed calico with elaborate florals, figures, or landscape design on a light background. Its origins can be traced back to the idyllic commune of Jouy-en-Josas, in the south-western suburbs of Paris.

“Maria Grazia Chiuri’s diaphanous dresses this couture season highlighted the Dior atelier’s toile, and paid homage to the maison’s mains d’or and exacting tailored cuts.” “This couture season at Dior, the maison’s atelier exalted a Braquenié toile with a technique inspired by tatting. Petite gilded bows brought life to the pastoral motifs of Braquenié’s toile, which required an average of 800 to 900 metres of silk thread.”

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 53 TheNEWS Fingerless leather gloves, bedazzled gloves, leather Fingerless

Tweed suit punctuated with a crystal-encrusted zipper

CHANEL high profile/haɪ ˈprəʊfaɪl/; noun

1. A position attracting attention or publicity.

“Celebrities of a high proﬁle—think actress Penélope Cruz and Harper’s BAZAAR Malaysia August 2018 cover girl Pom Klementieff—and fashion heavyweights were front row and centre at Chanel Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18 couture, and they have never been more glamorous.”

adjective 1. An ingenious theme this season at Chanel Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18. Think a discreet zipper that began at the hem of a ﬂoor-length skirt, and ended right by the shoulders. The long skirt, when unzipped, also revealed a miniskirt underneath.

“You can wear it zipped down when you visit your banker, no? And zipped up when you see your lover after!” says Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel’s “high-proﬁle” slit on the runway, which about the new high-proﬁle silhouette at when unzipped, revealed a miniskirt underneath Chanel this couture season.

54 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 The collection’s Iconique cape in silk organza with GIVENCHY goose feather embroidery caraman /ˈkarəman,karəˈman/; noun

1. The 19th-century townhouse originally built for the Duke of Caraman located at 3 Avenue George V in Paris. In 1959, a young Hubert de Givenchy moved his couture atelier to that very same townhouse, which remains there to this day. 2. The title of Clare Waight Keller’s latest haute couture collection at Givenchy—an homage to the couturier and a nod to his greatest muse, Audrey Hepburn.

“Titled ‘Caraman’, Clare Waight Keller’s debut couture collection ran the gamut from a silk georgette column dress reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn to sun-pleated dresses hand-painted in gradations from sand to ivory.”

Navy silk-velvet top with rocaille embroidered skirt at Givenchy Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18

A hand-painted sun-pleated dress, paired with a Drama in the trench coat for a form of a silk contemporary ﬂair georgette gown, embroidered with feathers in gradations of aquamarine

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A closer look at a headdress at Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Liquidised organza transformed into Autumn/Winter ’18, reminiscent a diaphanous cape at Iris van Herpen of a swirling hurricane Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18

I R I S V A N

HERPEN The Dutch couturier’s syntopia /sɪnˈtəʊpɪə/; adjective “syntopia”, in which fresh cotton is fused with laser-cut Mylar 1. The intertwining relationship between organic and inorganic; biology, and A harmonisation technology, as coined by Dutch couturier of organic and synthetic matter, Iris van Herpen. crafted into out- 2. Fragments of organic black cotton heat- of-this-world cocktail dresses bonded with organza and laser-cut Mylar.

“At Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Autumn/ Winter ’18, futuristic corset dresses combined with laser-cut Mylar called to mind a syntopian approach to haute couture.”

VALENTINO pictogram satin /pɪktəɡrɑːm ˈsatɪn/; noun

1. A pictorial symbol found on luxurious satins that often tells a tale through fabric, like in the case of Valentino Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18. 2. Embroidered or printed motifs reminiscent of a word or a phrase on garments.

“Inspired by tales of “Leda and the Swan” and Europa And The Bull, characters from the Greek mythology are embroidered and presented through intarsia, like on a knotted silk taffeta dress and a sorbet-hued kaftan.”

A picture tells a thousand words: Pierpaolo Piccioli’s pictogram satins at Valentino Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18 depicted Greek mythologies

56 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Oversized organza paired with tulle to create an ARMANI PRIVÉ exaggerated rosette by the shoulder peekaboo tulle /piːkəˈbuː t(j)uːl/; noun 1. Whisper-thin tulle draped strategically to reveal mysterious glimpses of skin, done most profoundly at Armani Privé Autumn/Winter ’18 through diaphanous checkered jackets, transformable veils, and a dramatic headdress.

“Flamboyant accents on stately column dresses, delicate tulles were fashioned into capes or hoods throughout Armani Prive’s latest couture collection. Also see: Lady Gaga at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of A Star Is Born.” “Ingeniously draped over the shoulders, décolletage or even the visage, peekaboo tulles at Armani Privé this couture season brought instant drama to black evening gowns, and ﬂoor-sweeping dresses.”

A transformable veil Sun-pleated organzas that can be turned in the most vibrant of into an elaborate off- pinks, fused together shoulder accent, worn with peekaboo tulles recently by Lady Gaga

A ﬂamboyant headdress crafted from whimsical tulles

An embroidered tulle dress played with optical illusion, backstage at Armani Privé Autumn/ Winter ’18

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Karl Lagerfeld and Penélope Cruz at Chanel Haute Couture Autumn/ Winter ’18

THE MASTER Karl Lagerfeld opens up to Justine Picardie about his disciplinarian German mother, his early training as a couturier in 1950s Paris, and why he hates old dresses but welcomes ghosts into his home.

In the two decades since I fi rst met Karl Lagerfeld, he has always refused to be pinned down about the details of his past, or what he might be planning for the future. “I feel no remorse and no regrets,” he declared on one occasion. “I have amnesia when it comes to the past.” On another, he remarked: “ e last thing I’d do is defi ne myself. Tomorrow I could be the opposite of what I am today.” Even so, during those and other encounters, Lagerfeld has always seemed to me to be entirely himself: witty, perceptive, sharp as a knife, yet more often than not, unexpectedly kind. But if he is, as he chooses to be, indefi nable, then perhaps the wisest course is to describe him as I fi nd him, on this most recent meeting, which takes place in his creative studio at Chanel, on Rue Cambon. It’s a Friday evening, and the building is unusually quiet, during a brief limbo between two major shows—a beautifully elegiac Autumn/Winter 18 collection that I’d seen the previous month, and a more lighthearted Cruise presentation, the details of which Karl had been fi nalising that afternoon. In all but one respect, he looks exactly the same as always—regal in a high-collared starched white shirt, jet-black jeans, tailored black jacket, freshly powdered white hair—except his monochrome uniform has been softened by a silver beard. It gives him an unexpectedly gentle aspect; so much so, that I have to stop myself reaching out to stroke it. I wonder aloud if his beloved cat Choupette likes her owner having whiskers that are the same colour as her fur. “Yes!” says Karl, delightedly. “ e one thing she doesn’t like is when I sleep and I turn my back on her—she gets furious.” Choupette and Karl sleep together, naturally, as befi ts a pair of close companions, in a bed of white linen and antique lace. “If she gets hungry, she wakes up fi rst and goes to the kitchen,” he explains, “and if there’s nothing there, she comes back and wakes

58 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 me up, by jumping on me. Sometimes in the middle of the night, she wants to play. She runs all over me and her little teeth bite me through the light summer cashmere blanket.” “You’re going to end up looking more and more alike,” I say. “Yes, like an old couple,” he replies, with a smile, showing me pictures of Choupette on his iPhone. “She’s like a sentimental person. She’s very funny—when I’m reading a newspaper, she reads it with me. She eats on the table, too, not on the floor. If the food is on the floor, esh won’t touch it. She’s very human ... I sometimes think she’s my mother’s reincarnation.” Aha, Karl’s mother Elisabeth Bahlmann, an intriguing woman about whom I always want to discover more, particularly given his aversion to discussing his childhood. Today, however, he is a little more forthcoming than usual. The second wife of Otto Lagerfeld—a rosperousp German businessman who ran an evaporated-milk company—Elisabeth was clearly a powerful influence on her only son. Karl pronounces her to have been “perfect”, though whenever he has described parenting to me, it sounds utterly terrifying: banging the piano lid on her son’s fingers when he was practising, and ordering him to draw instead, because “it makes less noise”; ridiculing him at every possible opportunity—telling him that his hands were ugly, his nostrils too wide, his hair absurd. Such was her lasting authority that he continues to wear fingerless gloves in public, in order to cover up his offending hands. Yet for all of that, she appears to have had complete confidence in Karl’s ability to take care of himself; and his ensuing self-discipline—he has never smoked or taken drugs or overindulged in alcohol—has served him well, in a long career that has far outlasted that of his fragile contemporary, Yves Saint Laurent, who oscillated between hedonism and depression. As a teenager, Karl asked his parents if he could leave their home in Germany, and study in Paris instead. “People said to my mother, ‘He will get lost,’ and my mother said, ‘There are people who get lost, and my son is the kind of person who will not be lost.’” She was proved right, when Karl found himself a job as an assistant at the haute couture house of Balmain, having won a prize in a 1954 fashion competition, sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat, with a design for a coat. Saint Laurent was also awarded a prize that same year, and the two boys became friends, as they embarked on their careers. When I ask Karl what Pierre Balmain was like, he says: “complex, snobbish, not very nice at all—but I loved watching him work”. It was during his apprenticeship that he honed a particular talent for illustration. “I learned in the most boring way in the world—when I was at Balmain, we didn’t have photocopiers, so we had to sketch every dress. One was obliged to work from the day after the collection for three weeks, until two in the morning, sketching everything, because those sketches were sent to the clients. That’s why in my sketches, you Metallic glints for Chanel Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18 can see every technical detail.” These illustrations continue to underlie all that he produces today, for Fendi, as well as Chanel and his eponymous label—although he describes the latter as “more like a cartoon of me”. Aside from the evidence they offer of his practical expertise, the sketches also possess an evocative sense of life; far more so, I say to him, than is sometimes apparent in an old dress. “Yes, I hate old dresses,” he replies. “I look at vintage pieces, and think this is the most depressing thing in the world.’” Yet, while he is always looking ahead, he remains an alert translator of the codes of past couturiers, including Gabrielle Chanel herself. When Karl became creative director of Chanel in 1983, the brand had changed very little since the death of its founder in 1971, and was verging on the moribund. His genius was to breathe new life into her iconic creations—the little black dresses, tweed jackets, and pearls, which remain synonymous with Chanel—without being overly reverential. In doing so, he has made the label ever more successful; indeed, when the company released its financial figures in June, for Models strolled down a re-creation of the first time in its 108-year history, they revealed that total annual sales in 2017 were close to the Seine at Grand Palais for Chanel Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18 USD10 billion—an 11 percent increase from the previous year, and outpacing its rivals.

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Beads and jewels in shades reminiscent of the celestial sky looked after him for two decades; and a handful of others, all of them exceptionally loyal. But he is as happy to spend time alone with his vast collection of books, returning to old favourites—including the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the prose of Colette—as well as newer discoveries. “The other day, Lagerfeld with godsons Jameson and I found a translation of Rilke by Hudson Kroenig, as well as model Adut Akech at the grand ﬁnale Paul Valéry,” he remarks. “Usually, I don’t believe in translated poetry, but this wasn’t bad.” Although Karl makes his mastery of fashion look effortless, “It takes a poet to translate another poet,” I suggest. and wears his accomplishment lightly, his training was lengthy and “Exactly,” he replies, “especially one as good as Rilke.” thorough: after three years working for Balmain, he moved to the This seems to me to be an appropriate way to understand historic couture house of Jean Patou. “I really learned how to do Karl’s work as a designer; for while he is fluent in the language of clothes at Patou, for five years,” he says. “The dressmakers from the Chanel, his work has a poetry of its own, rather than simply being 1920s were still working there, and they taught me everything ...” a translation. We discuss the fact that he has had a longer unbroken After the meticulous groundwork, he started freelancing for other tenure at Chanel than the great couturière herself; he has spent the fashion houses—most notably at Chloé—and then in 1965, began past 25 years reinterpreting her legacy, whereas her own career was his fruitful collaboration with Fendi, which still continues today. interrupted by World War II—she launched her business in 1910, Yet, what seems astonishing to me is not just Karl’s longevity, in closed down the couture house in 1939, and reopened it in 1954. an industry that destroys so many designers, but his continuing “I had no problems with Germans during the war, being perfectionism, combined with an intuitive sense of what will be German myself,’ says Karl, unexpectedly. “I remember the end alluring to the quixotic consumers of luxury brands. This goes of the war, but I didn’t suffer from it because I lived on a country far beyond sheer professionalism—though he is the consummate estate on the Danish border.” He tells me that his mother was a free professional, who never allows his personal life get in the way of his thinker, who had introduced him to the work of Hedwig Dohm, a work. As the years have passed, this work has become ever more German-Jewish feminist author and intellectual. He also says that central to his life; for aside from Choupette, he appears to love his father wanted to keep his family as far away as possible from nothing more than designing, sketching, reading, and dreaming, all the Third Reich; while his mother believed that Hitler “was ugly of which combine to create a series of supremely beguiling collections. and nothing—she only saw him once, and she said he was very ugly He tells me a story that at first suggests his success might have ... Something else I want to talk about is how my mother went to been an act of fate: “A fortune teller said to me when I was very school with Magda Goebbels. They were at finishing school, and for young, ‘Your story is a strange one. For you, it really starts when it the weekends they were allowed to go to Berlin, and Magda met her stops for the others.’” But then, immediately afterwards, it is as if first husband [Gunther Quandt] on the train, a very rich man, quite his mother’s mocking voice has echoed in his head. “Now I have a lot older. And my mother wanted nothing to do with it.” time to think things over, and I think it’s never good enough, that It’s the first time I’ve ever had a glimpse of Karl’s German I’m lazy. But I’m not—I love the job. And I do my job in the best childhood, though as always, his conversation refuses to follow conditions—here at Chanel, and at LVMH [which owns Fendi]. I a conventional, linear narrative. I mention how much I admired don’t do meetings, nobody tells me anything, I just explain what I the elegance of his most recent Chanel Métiers d’Art collection, want.” His relationship with Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO presented last December in his birthplace of Hamburg; and yet the of LVMH, is warm and mutually appreciative, while he describes the setting he chose was anything but nostalgic, the strikingly modern Wertheimers—Chanel’s long-standing owners—as “like family”. Elbphilharmonie, a new concert hall designed by the architectural He has also cultivated a tight-knit clan that surrounds him at work: practice of Herzog & de Meuron. Virginie Viard, the fashion studio director at Chanel who has been “Some people in Germany said it was like an homage to my at his side for 30 years; Amanda Harlech, who joined Karl as creative mother, but she hated Hamburg,” he says. “She and her sister both consultant in 1996; his personal assistant Sebastien Jondeau, who has had young first husbands, and after were remarried to older men.

60 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 My father was 16 years older, while my uncle—who was also my godfather—was 30 years older, and was the most divine person in the world. He’s the only person who slapped my face. Every day, he had a siesta, because he got up very early—he slept for an hour and then he went for a walk. I often used to visit my aunt and uncle during the holidays, and one day, I followed my uncle, and we reached a street called Freiligrath. I was 10 years old and I said, ‘Who was Freiligrath?’ He slapped my face and never spoke to me for the whole walk back to the house. He opened the door and my mother was standing there and he said to her, ‘Elisabeth, your son is an uncultivated as you are.’ And do you know who Freiligrath was? He was the greatest poet of the German revolution of 1848.” When I express some shock, and say that a child could not possibly be expected to know that, Karl shrugs, then adds: “My uncle lived for 104 years. And his brother lived until he was 106, his sister was 103, and his mother was 102. Those people were born before 1850. My uncle was born in 1868, and died in 1972, and he was never sick. Impeccable.” Needless to say, Karl seems determined to outlive them all, and to continue working for many years to come. “Do you think your mother is still driving you on?” I ask. “Maybe,” he replies. “That’s not a bad thing. You know, she would say to me, ‘You look like me, but not as good.’” “Did your mother feel beautiful?” “Yes, she thought she was perfection. She wanted to operate on my nose, because she believed it was ugly. She had navy-blue eyes and ink-black hair. All the Germans were blonde, and she had black hair; she looked like a gypsy at times. Her sister was blonde, my sister Cocktail dresses were was blonde-ish, my half sister [from his accentuated by faille and chiffon Carved- father’s first marriage], I don’t remember. I out jackets revealed the wasn’t brought up with them because they my mother visited, she did. There was another very good ghost—a shoulders were older, so I never spent much time with man who emerged with a child in a window. He’s had 23 children, them—they were in boarding school. My apparently. Sometimes he was wearing a powdered wig—très chic.’ half-sister married five times—I vaguely And these days, does he live with any ghosts? “I was never so recall the first husband, he was great, but I happy as now,” he replies. “I live on Quai Voltaire with Choupette.” can hardly remember the others.” “And no more ghosts?” His half-sister’s mother, he says, died “No, but in the courtyard is another atelier, which was where young, during childbirth; but his father Ingres painted his famous portrait of Madame Moitessier.” He lived into his late 80s. “He was never sick, searches on his iPhone, to show me the picture that the artist and he died reading the newspaper.” He completed in 1856, and explains that Picasso was a great admirer of pauses, very briefly, and I seize the moment Ingres, and of this picture in particular. to ask him if we can talk about ghosts. Karl would never dream of comparing his work to art—like “I love ghosts!” he says. “When I lived Coco Chanel, he believes that fashion is ephemeral, and even if it is at Rue de l'Université there was a ghost distilled into an eternal style, it does not belong in the museum. Even in the house of a woman who was killed so, it seems that he has come to inhabit an overlapping landscape when she tried to escape during the French between fashion and art, a place where one may reflect the other. He Revolution. I never really saw her, but when would doubtless scoff at such a notion, and yet, in his quest to move onwards, his understanding of the styles and artistic movements of The delicate lightness of Chanel Haute Couture the past continues to shape the way fashion looks today. Autumn/Winter ’18 Meanwhile, we have been talking for nearly two hours, and his assistant Sebastien has arrived to take him home to Quai Voltaire, where Choupette awaits. As always, Karl gives me the impression that he would be happy for our conversation to continue—which is an indication of his courtesy; and also a good way to leave me wanting more. “Until next time,” he says, kissing me on both cheeks, very lightly. “I look forward to it,” I say, and it’s true. Even as I wave goodbye, I’m already anticipating a future encounter with the Commander of couture, the Chevalier of chic, the one and only Karl Lagerfeld ... g

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LOGO LOYALTY Why don’t you ... turn yourself 4 into a walking billboard for your favourite fashion house? #TrendingNow this Autumn/ Winter ’18, designers resurrected the ’90s logomania trend and took it to new heights, splashing brand logos across clothing and accessories. Do it like Spanish model and DJ Sita Abellan in head-to-toe monogram for a

1. Coat, Fendi head-turning look. 2. Stockings, Fendi 3. Sunglasses, Sita Abellan is #TeamFendi Poppy Lissiman at at Milan Fashion Week Net-a-Porter.com 4. Heels, Fendi

62 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Scarf, Jumper, MSGM Givenchy Skirt, Grlfrnd at Net-a-Porter.comNet-a-Porter.com

NEST & RELAX Skirt, Prada

The vibrant babushka gets a 21st-century update in sleek monochromes. Take Shoes, Golden Goose Deluxe Brand style cues from New York-based blogger Vanessa Hong, who

worked ultra-chic Coat, INDIE East-meets-West boho Rains on the streets of Paris NATION in a sporty sweater, feminine pleated skirt, Dress down to dress and headscarf. up. Think Steve Zissou meets Puff Daddy. Opt for a ’90s logo tee, bright ﬁ sherman’s jacket, and corduroy pants. Top it off with an effortless beanie for a Cool practicality at dose of cool. Milan Fashion Week

Vanessa Hong puts Bag, Max V. Koenig Boots, a fresh twist to the Calvin Klein babushka trend in Sweater, 205W39NYC cool monochromes Valentino

The neon sitch at Paris Fashion Week ACID TRIP

Jacket, Prada uis V Lo uit , to ag n B Say what you will about athleisure, but it has slowly come to its own—own— THE STATEMENT now, in a personalised game of high-tech meets high fashion. Layer neon- Nicolas Ghesquière made waves with his debut of the hued outerwear over Pants, Gcds at New Wave bag for Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter ’18. FarFetch.com Inspired by a trunk from the maison’s archives with wavy relaxed pieces to boost stripes decorating the classic monogram print, this street cred. season’s rendition sees a similar wavy quilted pattern, a distinctive curved base, and “Vuitton” in rainbow hues. Comes in various colours, but this one’s a s-teal!

Sweater, Givenchy

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 63 The STYLE Boots, Marques’ Andrea in Almeida blooming ﬂ orals Coat, and wide-legged Balenciaga denim at New York Fashion Week

Athletic glamour at Milan Fashion Week

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CRAZY RICH COUTURE ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ author Kevin Kwan travels to Paris to meet the Asian style icons who are shaking up the staid world of couture.

On Feiping Chang: Ball gown, Giambattista Valli Haute Couture. Earrings, Messika Paris.

Photographed by Matthieu Salvaing. was sitting on a minimalist white bench in the middle of a glowing white box pavilion that had been built amid the splendour of the formal gardens surrounding the Musée Rodin in Paris. This was the ethereal setting for the Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18 show, and as I sat there thinking I must be in heaven, a woman leaned into my face and imperiously demanded that I move. She wore canary diamonds the size of small lemons and a champagne- coloured cocktail dress, and she looked like she had spent at least four hours in her make-up artist’s chair. “You are in my seat! You need to move more to the left,” she implored. I told her as politely as I could that there was no possible way I could move another millimetre, as I was already practically in the lap of the friendly Australian woman next to me. But this lady standing over me, who I suddenly recognised as the wife of one of the richest men I in Asia, wouldn’t take no for an answer. She had two planes, a dozen houses, and her own private museum, I believe, and she wanted her seat. A flurry of attendants came to sort out the fracas, whereupon it was revealed that Madame had made a mistake after all. This was not her seat; she was actually in the row behind. Welcome to the land of haute couture, where even all the money in the world cannot buy you a front-row seat. “Haute couture,” Yves Saint Laurent famously said, “consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation.” The legendary designer was referring to the artisans who create all the hand-sewn bits of exquisiteness that go into every couture dress, but his words could apply just as well to the women who wear the gowns. Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world. Increasingly, it is the women of Asia who are beginning to dominate this rarefied milieu. When my first novel, Crazy Rich Asians, was the Concorde from Singapore to Paris via London twice a year for their couture published in 2013, many readers were astonished to fittings and that Queen Sirikit of Thailand had been partial to Balmain since learn that in Asia there were women who dressed in 1960. I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and ’30s in avant- couture from morning till night. They were particularly garde dresses that looked like they could have come from the House of Worth captivated by the character of Astrid, the beautiful or Lucien Lelong. She would never say if they were couture, but I do recall her heiress from Singapore who was always immaculately telling me, “All my clothes and shoes came from Paris.” attired in the latest couture looks. I’ve lost count of how My grandmother’s behaviour is similar to that of many Asian women who many times I’ve been asked whether women like Astrid come from families who have dressed in couture for generations: They tend to truly exist, but I would always answer that, as a child be intensely private about it. The couture houses likewise remain as silent as the in the late 1970s, I personally knew women who took Sphinx, never discussing their clients, so a fascination remains. Who are these women who wear couture, who would buy a dress that costs more than a Range Rover? In July, I was lucky enough to get a peek into this inner sanctum by On Heart Evangelista: accompanying four distinctly stylish women from Asia who are regulars at the Cape, Armani Privé. Earrings, Chopard. couture shows. The first show I attended was Schiaparelli. As I arrived at the Palais Garnier to meet Heart Evangelista, a swarm of paparazzi descended on us like locusts. Heart hails from a Filipino-Chinese clan that founded the Barrio Fiesta food empire and is married to Francis Joseph “Chiz” Guevara Escudero, a member of the Philippine Senate who was a leading candidate for vice president two years ago. But her illustrious social standing isn’t the only reason the photographers were clicking away: Heart also happens to be one of the most popular actresses in the Philippines. It didn’t hurt that in her round tinted sunglasses and sequinned ombré dress, she looked like a modern-day Audrey Hepburn. Images of her went viral before the show was even over, with her fans speculating about why she was in Paris and whether she might be in the Crazy Rich Asians film. As the models came billowing down the catwalk beneath the opera house’s glittering chandeliers and Belle Époque frescoes, I could see how Heart connected intuitively to the fashion with an artist’s eye. “Every time I go to the couture shows, it inspires my art,” she told me. An accomplished painter who has hosted several sold-out exhibitions, Heart landed on a surprise hit when she began painting on Hermès handbags. “I had an orange lizard skin Birkin bag and I was eating French fries at Chili’s, and I didn’t realise I was getting grease all over the bottom,” she said. “I tried to clean it, but it was just impossible to fix, so I thought, ‘Why don’t I paint on it?’ I sketched a yellow bird on a branch of flowers, and people started raving about it. A lot of women have their bags stained somewhere—one woman’s daughter had scribbled all over her Birkin— so all these clients started coming to me and asking, ‘Can you paint on my bag?’” Heart’s bespoke Birkin bags now have a cult following. Speaking of cult followings, few designers have established a group of fans as devoted as Giambattista Valli. “Couture is at its essence about the fantasy, and Giamba really brings it to life,” Feiping Chang said in the car on our way to

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From left to right: On Rachel Yeoh: Dress; and shoes, both from Fendi Haute Couture. Earrings, Cartier. On Michelle Yeoh: Dress; and shoes, both from Fendi Haute Couture. Ring, Cartier.

Fashion editor: Cassie Anderson. Hair: Vincent De Moro; Jeck Aguilar for Philip B. Botanicals. Make-up: Lisa Legrand; Albert Kurniawan. Grooming: Angie Moullin for Augustinus Bader Skincare and Leonor Greyl Paris. Production: Michael Lacomblez/Louis2 Paris.

his show at the Pavillon Gabriel. Feiping epitomises a certain breed for her wedding, and at today’s show it looked as though she was of international Asian that is a hybrid of East and West. A native about to commission a dozen more. As a model in a majestic pale- of Taiwan, she grew up in Sydney and Singapore before moving to green tulle stalked slowly across the stark, airy space like a peacock New York, where she worked as an investment banker after getting a doing an intricate mating dance, Feiping sighed audibly. “That one,” degree at NYU’s Stern School of Business. When a friend invited her she said to me, as if she had found her mate. to join her fashion investment fund in Hong Kong, Feiping jumped With her show-stoppingly bold style, Feiping attracts movie-star at the opportunity to connect with her true passion. “Fashion has attention everywhere she goes. Outside the Dior show, sporting a red always been in my blood,” she said. “My grandmother only wore leather Dior trench coat with black mesh lace-up boots that made Chanel and Escada, and as a little girl I would play around in her her look like a superchic James Bond villainess, Feiping was stopped closet. She was super intimidating and had this mystical aura about every few feet by photographers. After snapping a picture of the two her, so I always thought, ‘Wow, I want to look like her.’” Feiping’s of us, one photographer asked me, “What’s her name?” I dutifully arrival in the Hong Kong scene coincided with the rise of fashion told her, adding, “Do you want to know my name?” “Not unless influencers on social media, and before she knew it agents and brand you’re famous,” the woman quipped. “What if I was?” I replied. The were approaching her. photographer squinted at me dubiously. Today, Feiping is one of Asia’s top Instagram fashion stars. Her While Feiping embodies the current zeitgeist of fashionable wedding in Capri to financier Lincoln Li was one of the most talked- women in Asia, the Yeoh sisters undoubtedly represent the future. about nuptials of 2017, as fashion and wedding bloggers went wild Rachel and Michelle Yeoh are descended from a distinguished over the breathtaking pictures of Villa Lysis blanketed in wildflowers, Malaysian-Chinese family. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, the with Feiping posing on the marble staircase in cascades of white tulle fraternal twins attended boarding school in England and have called by Giambattista Valli. Feiping commissioned several couture gowns London home for the past few years. In 2015, they had the honour

68 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 of being the first Malaysians to debut at Queen Two days later, attending the Armani Privé show in an elegant, Charlotte’s Ball at Kensington Palace, a historical boiserie-panelled salon of the Italian Embassy with Heart, I found ritual once reserved for Europe’s aristocratic myself staring in disbelief at the most spectacular sight. Isabelle families. Last year, the twins also made their Huppert, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Juliette Binoche were sitting fashion debut, commanding the catwalk in across from me. Only three of my four favourite actresses in the Dolce & Gabbana’s Autumn/Winter ’17 show in whole world. If Catherine Deneuve walked in right now, I knew Milan alongside the offspring of stars like Daniel I would completely lose it. I could already see the headline: ‘Asian Day-Lewis, Christie Brinkley, and Jude Law. Author Goes Crazy at Armani’. Heart leaned in and asked, “Kevin, When we attended the Fendi show together at is that Tina Turner in front of us?” Holy Proud Mary, it sure was. the monumental Palais Brongniart, I marvelled How was I ever going to concentrate on the show? not only at how the Yeoh sisters seems to know I needn’t have worried. Armani showed 96 looks, far more than all the right people but also at how they were a any other couturier I’d seen that week, but dress after dress demanded study in patrician grace, perfectly poised, while your attention. I saw exquisite gowns with sequins suggesting sacred all around them less well-behaved attendees geometry, a Jean Cocteau-esque drawing came to life against black jostled for front-row seats, pranced for attention, velvet, and like the rest of the crowd, Heart and I were transfixed. and took innumerable selfies. Their composure “Seeing a show like this reminds me why I love going to the couture no doubt comes from having been raised well shows. It’s so therapeutic,” Heart observed. “Asians can be really and growing up around the couturier’s atelier. conservative. It’s hard to express yourself without someone saying “We started attending the shows with our mother something about you. But what I realise is, if you can use your when we were 11. It’s become a family tradition, platform of influence to inspire girls to step out of their comfort zone a summer ritual that we look forward to every with the way they dress, that’s pretty powerful.” year,” Michelle said, almost wistfully. On our last day in Paris, the women took part in a photoshoot That’s because when summer is over, the at the Ritz, dressed in their favourite looks from the shows. The twins will return to being immersed in their Yeoh sisters seated among piles of macarons in the Maria Callas studies. Michelle is about to graduate from law suite, adorned in Cartier jewels and delightful pink gowns by Fendi, school, while Rachel is finishing up a combined reminded me of two young duchesses posing for a court portrait degree in politics, philosophy, and law. “Our by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Heart, standing on a balcony swathed in family values education a lot and curiosity and an ostrich-feathered Armani Privé creation and Chopard diamonds, intellect, but never at the expense of creativity. looked so stunning that she caused me to forget the view. But it was You always have to have both sides. The essence only when I saw Feiping in the garden, resplendent in the glorious of life is that we’re here to create, innovate, do pale-green tulle gown she had spotted on the Giambattista Valli something at the very least,” Rachel mused. As if runway, that I began to understand what couture was truly all about. paying heed to her own words, she and Michelle The generations of women appeared on the catwalk again, at Dolce & who have worn couture— Gabbana’s Alta Moda show at a villa overlooking Lake Como just whether they’re from America, days after we met up in Paris. Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Like most twins, they are preternaturally close. They finish each or Asia—have experienced other’s sentences in the sort of English accent that many a parent universal connection when they would pay a fortune in boarding school fees for their children to put on a piece of couture and acquire. They also share a dress size, but, alas, there’s little swapping are enveloped in its artistry. The going on, as their tastes couldn’t be more different. “Rachel is dress transforms them, imbues really experimental and will wear whatever she wants. I make safer them with an indescribable choices,” Michelle said. “I dress from the heart,” Rachel told me over power, and becomes an all- breakfast one morning, gesturing to her red tea-length Ganni wrap consuming love affair. As I dress with black leopard spots. I found it charming that Rachel is caught Feiping’s eye during equally comfortable wearing Ganni, a moderately priced Danish the photoshoot, she declared, line, as she is wearing couture. “I never want to take this dress In fact, this casual embrace of high and low was evident among off.” Her Messika earrings all the women. Like Astrid from my novels, who showed up at an glimmered in the sunlight, and exclusive party wearing a white dress from Zara, these ladies are as as she posed—running, leaping, keyed in on high street fashion as they are on couture. At another falling—on the crisp lawn in dinner during the week, Feiping turned up in a pleated lavender Tibi an alleé of perfectly manicured dress, the same one that Heart owns and wore to her art opening trees, I knew why. All of a sudden at the Ayala Museum in Manila in April. The women brilliantly she was a butterfly, she was a sea mix couture pieces with contemporary brands sold at a much lower anemone, she was a peony in full On Kevin Kwan: Jacket; and pants, price point without an ounce of snobbery. Of course, on these ladies, bloom, she was like nothing on both from Fendi. everything looks like couture. earth. She was pure joy. g

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Boho embellishments amped up a maxi dress

Luxe fur paired with a rufﬂ ed Victorian blouse at Tory Burch Autumn/Winter ’18 UPTOWN GIRL Tory Burch Autumn/Winter ’18 may be inspired by style icon Lee Radziwill, but the designer’s own irreverent style is deﬁ ning a new generation of uptown girls. By Amy Yasmine.

The Lee Radziwill A soft shearling satchel, reminiscent of coat paired with the icon’s elegant style contrasting blooms Double-duty layering: a fur coat and utilitarian parka

ver the course of 14 years, designer Tory Burch has become somewhat of a poster child for the American upper crust—preppy, polished, but with a bohemian spirit that sweeps the Upper East Side like a refreshing autumn’s breeze. It certainly refl ects a change of times; a deviation from Y2K’s obsession with cinched-in bandaged silhouettes—think Tinsley Mortimer in Hervé Léger—to a more relaxed, 21st-century Talitha Getty-esque sensibility. OBorn into an affl uent family in Pennsylvania, the 52-year-old designer spent her childhood climbing trees and running wild on her family’s 12 hectares of land. “I love this idea of outdoorsy glamour, a sortsort of tomboy-meets-girly look,” Burch once said in anan interview.terview. “ at probably comes from being confl icteictedd myself.myself. I had very glamorous parents, but I didn’t puputt onn a dress until I was about 15. I was more interesinterestedted in riding horses.” Indeed, the billionaire’s parentsparents,, Tory Burch Buddyuddy and Reva Robinson, were both equally dandy with her andnd extravagant. Her father, an investor, would weawearr mother, Reva dinnernner jackets lined with Hermès silk scarves, while her mothermother brought home a Saint Laurent ball gown for her daughteraughter to wear to prom. Nonetheless, Burch’s juxtaposed down-to-earth nature informsforms her personal sense of style and consequentlconsequently,y, her eponymousponymous label. Her Instagram feed is a solid reprrepresentationesentation of that:hat: a vibrant mix of boho luxe and lady-of-the-malady-of-the-manornor sophistication.sophistication. Onn any given day—or Insta-post—her look runs the gamutgamut from a scarf-printscarf-printeded silk dressress paired with ankle booties to a crisp shirt worwornn with a graphic bomber. OtherOther times, it’ss sporty palazzo joggers in Antigua, or a luxe ccable-knitable-knit sweater eff ortlesslyortlessly thrown overver a midi paisley skirt in New York. “ e clothes cacan’tn’t wear you—it has to be about thehe woman,” she recalled her mother Reva’s advice, in another interview. “Less“Less is always more,more, in her mind,” she added. For Burch, however, this meant giving the less-is-more approach a modern sporty “I had very glamorous twist. A nod to her athletic-meets-bohemian parents, but I didn’t put on disposition, Tory Burch Autumn/Winter ’18 was a succinct ode to that notion. Heavily a dress until I was about inspired by American socialite Lee Radziwill, the collection riff ed off elegant classics, but 15. I was more interested in with a rugged twist. Unlike previous seasons, riding horses.” – Tory Burch which relied heavily on the designer’s travels and childhood memories, this season stood outut for its youthful—read: millennial—take, albeit it referencing one of the century’scentury’s mostmost beguiling style icons. Take for example the ovoversizedersized fur coats worn underunder shearling- linedned parkas, or argyle knits worn over toile de JoJouyuy midis. Rugged denims were given thehe day-dress eff ect, while structured croc bags gagaveve the collection a statelystately appeal. It’s a lookok that even Insta-generation would fl ock to, consconsideringidering its laid-back luxeluxe approach. In this regard, the designer owes her success to her own style, especially now that herer company is worth USD5 billion—self-made, too. IIt’st’s what sets her apart fromfrom her Americanmerican counterparts—Diane Von Furstenberg had StuStudiodio 54, Calvin Klein hishis Americanmerican Gigolo tailoring, and Michael Kors his jet-set mode de vie. “My label is about Rich velvets pared down with a casual womenwomen who are interesting, intellectually curious, stylish, busy,busy, and doing things,” she satchel at Tory explainedxplained in an interview early this year, and coinccoincidentally,identally, describingdescribing herself. “I want Burch Autumn/ Winter ’18 to make things [for women] that are eff ortless and chic.” And chic, it certainlycertainly was. 

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Maye Musk in a red one-shoulder dress from Stella McCartney and steely Tiffany & Co. earrings

Esther Wojcicki: I must congratulate you on your 70th birthday. How are you feeling about the milestone? Maye Musk: I had been looking forward to it because I feel like things are going to take off in my 70s. How old are you? EW: I’m 72. MM: I’m younger than you. EW: Yes, so much younger. Your modelling career is amazing. MM: It is amazing! I was always just a model with three kids. Nobody knew who I was, but it didn’t matter. Now I’m an infl uencer, so I get to do interviews and use them as a platform to talk about nutrition and go on glamorous fashion shoots like this one for Harper’s BAZAAR. It’s beyond! EW: at makes me feel very good, too. Any tips for aspiring MAYE models of any age? MM: I’ve always had my own business as a dietician, so I eat well. You must maintain a steady weight, especially at our THE FORCE age, as the cholesterol starts to shoot up. EW: What about your beauty routine? How do you always BE WITH YOU look so good? Maybe you can help me. MM: I eat well to keep my skin looking good, and I stay Maye Musk, CoverGirl model, dietician, out of the sun. I put on SPF if I’m going outside, even with a and mother of Tesla founder Elon Musk, hat on. I always have a moisturiser on my face and lip balm because my lips get dry. chats with Esther Wojcicki, mother of EW: Your style is impeccable; I noticed that when I fi rst met Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki, about life you. Where did you get your fashion sense? MM: I moved from South Africa where I grew up to Toronto in their 70s, raising trailblazing children, about 28 years ago. I was living in a rent-controlled apartment and moving to Mars. with my three teenagers when I met my best friend, Julia Perry, who happens to be a stylist. At the time I thought

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I had good taste. But one day MM: I spend a lot of time on she said, “You need to start Instagram. I love spending dressing better,” and threw time with my 10 grandkids everything in my wardrobe and hearing about what they’re except for six outfi ts. I could doing; they’re so excited. only aff ord to buy one new EW: You were named the suit, two shirts, a pair of shoes, face of CoverGirl at 69, and and a bag. I wore that every it was described as a history- day until I could aff ord more. making moment. Is that your EW: Like me, you have three greatest achievement? amazing, wildly successful MM: My three kids are my children. Can you describe greatest achievement. I never your relationship? dreamed of being a CoverGirl, MM: We laugh a lot and we but here I am! It’s so amazing. get together often. e response has been positive. EW: Being a mother is tough, People post #Goals and and you were a single mum. #GOAT. Do you know what How did you balance your GOAT means? career and maintain a sense EW: No, what does it mean? of self? MM: Greatest of All Time. MM: I keep in good health. EW: at’s so wonderful. And I’m optimistic, but even It really reaffi rms the Musk, a model mum in an with all my optimism I would elegant Carolina Herrera importance of appreciating have never said to myself, dress, David Yurman and encouraging women of earrings, and Manolo “When I get to 70, I’m really Blahnik sandals all ages. going to take off .” I would have MM: Another hashtag they sounded like a crazy lady. write is #OG. I had to ask EW: We are good role my granddaughter what it models—living proof that you means; it’s Original Gangster. can continue to do all sorts I laughed so much. : PETER SAVIC FOR L’ANZA. of exciting things after 70. EW: Oh, my God, I love this. Speaking of exciting, your son OG. For me, and I think Elon [who is also the founder it’s the same for you, being and CEO of SpaceX] had an “I don’t know if I want to spend optimistic, always looking amazing experience earlier three months on a rocket. As a out instead of in, and trying this year with his rocket test to improve the world in some launch, and now he’s planning nutritionist, I could probably way are the keys to success and a fl ight to Mars. Do you want change, and something we’ve to be onboard the spaceship? help by sending food.” passed on to our children. MM: I don’t know if I want I’ve been trying to do that to spend three months in a – Maye Musk in education for decades. rocket. In the beginning, it You’ve been trying to do that will just be engineers, who with nutrition forever. My will go fi rst to set up a city. As a nutritionist, I could probably daughter Susan is trying to improve the world with YouTube. help by sending food. It would have to be compacted. And Elon is doing it with the electric car industry. Every time EW:  MAKE-UP: TONYA BREWER. PRODUCTION: ANDY CRUM FOR OPUS REPS OPUS FOR CRUM ANDY BREWER. PRODUCTION: MAKE-UP: TONYA Any hobbies? I get into my Tesla I think of Elon. FASHION EDITOR: CASSIE ANDERSON. PHOTOGRAPHY: DENNIS LEUPOLD. HAIR

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HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 79 8 With more than 20 rose micronutrients to nourish the skin, this oil is delicately luxurious

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BEST 10PRE-SERUM 100 Dior Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose, RM867 “Indulge your inner queen with this luxurious W pre-serum. Enriched with more than 10,000 R rose de Granville micro pearls, Dior’s Prestige I N N E La Micro-Huile de Rose aids in product absorption thereafter, improves skin texture, and revitalises skin.” 9 11 B E S T F A C E ILLUMINATOR 13 Dior Backstage Glow Face Palette, RM188 For a second-skin glow up, Dior’s newest face palette is BEST FOOT CREAM the pocket-size wonder you’ll Jessica Zenspa Intense want to have. To illuminate, Hydrating Heel Repair Crème, RM98 dot lighter shades on more Jessica’s repair cream means business. prominent facial features, then Formulated with vitamin E, aloe vera, add a touch of pastel pink for M O S T and shea butter, this moisturiser leaves natural, all-over radiance. G L A M O R O U S you with a generous layer of hydration EYESHADOW without a greasy feeling—cracked heels PALETTE will no longer be an issue. Highlighter, blusher, Huda Beauty Desert Dusk and eyeshadow in Eyeshadow Palette, RM275 one—a jet-setter’s dream come true “Featuring creamy mattes, shimmery glitter, pearl shades, and duo-chrome toppers, this O R F palette is richly pigmented. Easy E L

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to blend and eﬀ ortless, even for U S make-up amateurs.” L 14 BEST MICELLAR WATER FOR SENSITIVE SKIN Bioderma Sensibio H2O, RM76.50 (250ml) One of France’s most-loved micellar solutions, Bioderma’s Sensibio H20 is perfectly compatible with any skin type. Make-up artists especially love using it backstage at fashion weeks, for its gentle formulation and eﬀ ectiveness.

BEST LIQUID EYELINER Paul & Joe Liquid Eye Liner, RM102.80 “I love the ﬁ ne tip—it’s so easy for me to draw on a natural line. e 12 brown is very opaque and it dries to a matte ﬁ nish really quickly.”

80 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT100 1177 W R I E B E S T N N BEST EYE GELGL W AT E R P R O O F Comfort Zone Sacred Nature Eye Cream-Gel,Cream-Gel, RM188 MASCARA Relief your peepers from late-night fatigue and sweep Paul & Joe Waterproof Mascara Comfort116 Zone’s polyphenol-rich6 gel along the contour Duo, RM139.60 of your eyes and upper lids to leave on overnight. Smudge-proof and waterproof Come morning, you’ll have eyes so bright, it’s as if mascaras are the standard these you’ve had that requisite eight hours of sleep. days, but precision is also key. Featuring an ultra-smooth “Face oils really seal the moisture in, and formula infused with olive oil I am loving Decorté’s perfect lightweight and silk protein, Paul & Joe’s formula.” – Natasha Kraal Waterproof Mascara Duo off ers a lengthening brush on one end, and a fi ne comb on the opposite end of the wand. Hello, butterfl y lashes. 19 BEST FACIAL OIL Decorté AQ Oil Infusion, RM394 18B E S T Dull and dehydrated skin, no more. NATURAL Decorté’s AQ Oil Infusion is rich in FACIAL OIL white mucuna extract, white birch L’Occitane Immortelle water, natural minerals, and amino Divine Youth Oil, RM245 acids that promise to have skin looking Made with 100 percent brighter and more radiant than ever. natural oils, L’Occitane Immortelle Divine Youth Oil fi rms and lifts mature skin. For best results, apply this facial oil in the evening before your serum and moisturiser, when the BEST LIPSTICK skin is least exposed to Fenty Beauty Mattemoiselle Plush external aggressors. Matte Lipstick, RM85 “ is is one of the few super pigmented lipsticks that I like, one of the main reasons being that it doesn’t fade after a meal. Like all matte lipsticks, it can be a touch drying, but I use it in tandem with a lip balm, and my lips are moisturised—and 15 matte—throughout the day.”

MOST DRAMATIC EYELINER Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner Glam Glitter Gel Eye Crayon, RM125 Combining the holy trinity of rich pigments, intense colours, and glamorous glitters, this party-proof liner glides smoothly acrossacross the eyelid without tugging on the skin, and ststaysays on for hours without smudsmudging.ging

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B E21 S T T I N T E D MOISTURISER Chanel Les Beiges Sheer Healthy Glow Tinted Moisturiser SPF 30 / PA++, RM220 “ is year’s nudes all play by their own rules, off ering sheer fi nishes and highlighting the individual’s skin texture. Small and convenient, this tinted moisturiser’s ultra-fi ne liquid enhances the skin with a natural glow, while keeping it hydrated at the same time.”

DR TEH JIA LI Founder and aesthetic physician of JIA Clinic Receiving over 200 products was ... a jaw-dropping sight! I had to actually segment my face to test out the products so that I could make good comparisons. Most memorable moment ... e day of our shoot with the other judges. It was a valuable encounter where we got to share our opinions and thoughts on the products we’ve tested. Beauty tips ... Take product reviews with a pinch of salt, even if it’s from the experts because every individual’s skin is unique and will react to the products diﬀ erently. Remind yourself not to fall for packaging or marketing gimmicks; it’s the contents and results that matter most.

B E S T OVERNIGHT BEST GEL EYELINER CREAM Marc Jacobs Beauty Fineliner Ultra-Skinny Gel Sothys Paris No2ctuelle Detox Eye Crayon, RM105 Resurfacing Overnight Cream, Want to create the illusion of bigger eyes? 222RM471 2 Always line the waterline and dramatise Resynchronise the body’s your lashes with lashings of mascara. circadian clock and destress “Long-wearing and smudge-free, this the skin, thanks to stabilised really is one ﬁ ne eyeliner. Its unbreakable vitamin C, nasturtium extract, 2mm tip glides on eﬀ ortlessly as well.” and detoxifying complexes in this overnight cream. 23

82 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 BEST EVERYDAY FOUNDATION Beneﬁ t Hello Happy Soft Blur BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 24 Foundation, RM141 “In a rush? Just apply a thin layer HOT of Beneﬁ t’s Hello Happy Soft O R F E L

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With a natural, matte fi nish that’s S L weightless on the skin, you won’t BEST PORE 100 even remember you had it on in the REFINER fi rst place. Of course, nobody can W Bioderma Sébium Pore R tell unless you do!” Refi ner, RM84.90 I E If you have overworked N N pores—think excess sebum and dilated pores—consider Bioderma’s Sébium Pore Refi ner. Fluidactiv exclusive patented complex will regulate sebum quality while agaric acid tightens pores and refi nes skin texture.

MOST LUXURIOUS FOUNDATION Clé de Peau Beauté Le Fond de Teint, RM1,037 “Upon application, this foundation feels BBES E S T F A C E smooth like water and is immensely SCULSCULPTERP comfortable on the skin. e Illuminating 30 Kat Von D ShaShaded + Light g t Complex EX also includes moisturising Edge Crème ContoContourur Brush,B h ingredients to keep the face fresh and refi ned.” RM193 Perfect for blendingblending and sculpting, this ssoftof bristle brush is your go-go- to whether it’s glowing 25 cheekbones you’re looking for or the sharpest contour that you desire. Pair with BEST DEEP 28 Kat Von D’s Shade + Light CLEANSING MASK Crème Contour Palette for Philosophy Purity Made Simple excellent results. Pore Extractor Exfoliating Mask, RM127.30 Philosophy’s skin purifying mask goes deep and dislodges any stubborn blackheads with ppurifyingurifying white clay, salicylic acid, aandnd natural exfoliants. Use twice a week to shrink pores eff ectively andand you won’t be needing Insta- fi lterslters to blur them out anymore. 31 O R F E L

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gold-standard skin MOISTURISING L SERUM Topicrem Ultra-Moisturizing Serum, RM151.90 “ is serum gets my high rating. 29 It doesn’t weigh my skin down and leaves it feeling dewy when layered BEST CONCEALER FOR with a moisturiser. Designed with NATURAL COVERAGE the innovative Bio-active water, 26B E S T Benefi t Boi-ing Airbursh Brightening Concealer, RM99 it promises to stimulate the fl ow NATURAL An eff ortless skin retouch that provides light to medium of hydration through the skin EXFOLIATOREXFOLIATOR coverage? You best believe it. Our judges have also found that for 24 hours, and optimises cell Melvita Nectar Pur OrganicOrgani this waterproof concealer, with six diff erent shades, from Light renewal, too.” Mask and Scrub, RM135RM135 to Deep Neutral, lasts as long as 10 hours on the face. Purify, repair, and revitalise with this two-two- in-one mask and scrub,scrub, which will polish sebsebumu away and leave the sskink mattifi ed with organicorgan peppermint essential oil. A natural way to hithit F5 on your face during thoset less-than-stellar days.day .

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 83 BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT 33 100 BEST PRIMER Marc Jacobs Beauty Under(cover) Perfecting Coconut Face Primer, RM205 W “I am obsessed with anything that is coconut-based—even more I R when it conceals my pores to reveal a soft visage. Did you know N N E ﬁ ve forms of coconut including cold-pressed coconut water, juice, and pulp are used in this primer—all in the name of skin protection? I absolutely love that.”

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BEST EYESHADOW Marc Jacobs Beauty O!Mega Gel Powder Eyeshadow, RM145 Dubbed the cashmere sweater of eyeshadows, the O!Mega collection of eyeshadows is curated by make-up maestro Diane Kendal for polished, everyday wear. “I applied it with my ﬁ ngers 32 and there was zero fall out. Great pigmentation, super long wear, and extremely easy to work with, too.”

B E S T BRIGHTENING SERUM Dermalogica BioLumin-C Serum, RM544 “ e light aqueous-based serum leaves skin glowing and radiant. It’s well worth the price, too, as this high-performing serum delivers three times more vitamin C into the skin while the chia seed oil shields the skin from free radicals.”

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BESTBEST FACE SUNSCREEN LancômeLancôme UV Expert Tone Up Milk SPF 50+ PA++++, RM18RM183.963.96 “You knowknow K-beauty is an unstoppable force globally when Lancôme’s UV Expert Tone 100 Up Milk is inspired by the trend. Equipped with SPF 50+ PA++++, the sunscreen shields W skin from harmful UVA and UVB rays, while its Fairy Powder brightens complexion, e R 3535 sweat-resistant formula is a huge plus, too. is deﬁ nitely wins a spot on my dresser.” I N N E

Treat yourself to a quality at-home mani-pedi session 36 39 B E S T DETOXIFYING BEST NATURAL MASK SERUM Philosophy Microdelivery B&B Labs Lingzhi Oxygen Peel Kit, RM234.90 Skin Repair Serum, RM280 Need a quick detox facial? Lingzhi has long been First, apply a generous used in traditional Chinese amount of Philosophy’s medicine to heal and promote charcoal gel onto clean longevity. Enhanced with skin, then massage in collagen, vitamins C and B3, anotheranother layer of the oxygen as well as amino acids, this foamfoam booster until it foams. oil-based serum is designed LeaveLeave on for three minutes to revitalise cells and target and exfoliate with the pigmentation or scars. derma blade. Revitalised skin is yours to have. 38 B E S T N A I L POLISH OPI Infi nite Shine, RM75 To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the release of Grease, OPI launched 12 limited-edition nail polish shades, from powdery pastel hues to BEST BRUSH SET rich, saturated tones such Marc Jacobs Beauty The Crease as Tell Me About It Stud’s Eyeshadow Brush, RM195; summery red. Consider us, The Shadow Eyeshadow Brush, hopelessly devoted. RM190; The Smudge Eyeshadow Brush, RM175 Smudge, blend, and defi ne with these professional 4B E S T B0 O D Y brushes to create gorgeous SUNSCREEN 3377 L’Erbolario Invisible Suncreen Veil Spray, runway-worthy eye looks. Super fl exible and gentle, these RM159 brushes will pick up colour “ is sunscreen has set the bar high pigment so easily, and bring for any sunscreen that comes my way out the boldness in your eeyes.yes in the future. e nozzle disperses the products evenly and it doesn’t leave any white streaks on the body. I also enjoy the scents of prickly pear and desert date. I defi nitely recommend this to everyone.”

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BEST SOS SERUM Julie Anne Kang Trilogy Very Gentle Calming Serum, RM153 (30ml) Aloe vera leaf juice, evening primrose oil, calendula fl ower extract, and JULIE ANNE KANG green tea leaf extract come together Co-founder Of Kulet to make this Trilogy serum so true to its name, reinstating calm to stressed- Being a Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge ... was a little overwhelming at fi rst, out skin. “I would repurchase this but it gave me a sense of responsibility to give honest feedback on the products I’ve tested. serum. It has helped with my eczema My ride or die products ... Burberry’s Cat Lashes, because my lashes look so darkdark and intintenseen and it calms any sensitive fl are-ups on my skin. It also sits very beautifully with it. I also love a good concealer and Dior’s DioDiorskinrskin Forever UndercoverUndercover Concealer givesgiv under make-up.” good coverage without creasing. A woman can ... never have too many beauty products. Technology and formulationsformulations are always improving so there will always be better ones.

BEST NATURAL TONER The Herb Farm Protecting Skin Defend Mist, RM138 “I’m all for natural ingredients. 42 Carefully formulated with 43 elderberry extract, xanthan gum, BEST LOOSE POWDER and black spruce essential oil, Kat Von D Lock-It Blotting Powder, RM140 this mist made my skin brighter is Kat Von D blotting powder had us at and more radiant after. If you’re its “mattifying” and “ultra-fi ne absorbing working in an offi ce or glued to powders” promises. Keeping excess oils and your electronic devices 24/7, I pesky pores at bay, this powder will give you would recommend this.” impeccable skin that’s ready to take on most daily stressors. Bad selfi e days? Not a chance. H y y ch x Ote utu /W ter ’17

86 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 47BES T BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 FASHION- F O R W A R D HOT FOUNDATION Dior Backstage Face & Body Foundation, RM155 21 shades, 16 intensities, 100 and six undertones— W Dior’s Backstage Face R & Body Foundation I E has a shade for all. N N Guaranteed to stay on the skin through rigorous workouts, water play, 44 or humid environs, this foundation also has an BEST EYESHADOW easily buildable coverage. PALETTE Dior Backstage Eye Palette, RM202 Whether it’s rosy hues with cool undertones or brown neutrals with warm undertones, there is a palette for Pro tip: Instead of dousing everyone in Dior’s latest Backstage line. a cotton pad with facial A make-up artist’s secret weapon, look essence, apply directly on your own hands and gently runway ready with this multi-fi nish dab onto skin until fully palette wherever you are. absorbed for optimum use 49 B E S T P O W E R FOUNDATION Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear, RM175.47 Eight years of research, 4455 to launch a 24-hour long-wearing foundation M O S T that lives up to its claim. VOLUMISING Coated with NAI MASCARA pigments, oxidation BurberryBurberry Cat Lashes, RM122.60 is no longer an issue, ““ e formula holds curls very making all-day-long well and doesn’t clump. On velvety skin so much top of that, the hourglass- more attainable. shaped elastomer brush 48 makes it super easy to reach my shorter lashes to add defi nition and length from oneone end to another. I also love BEST ANTI-AGEING ESSENCE how intense the black is, as Comfort Zone Sublime Skin Essence, RM398 well as its ease of removal— “ is uber-light essence sits really well with my skin, and water does the trick.” now has a permanent spot in my daily routine. e texture of my skin has improved immensely, thanks to the Natural MMoisturizing i i ing Factor and Tripeptide-1. Other skincarskincaree pproducts now w absorb more eff ortlessly into my skin, too.”

B E S T CONTOURING BEST CUSHION STICK COMPACT Fenty Beauty Match Stix Nars Aqua Glow Cushion 50 Matte Skinstick, RM105 Foundation SPF23/PA++, Conceal, contour, and correct RM178 with Fenty Beauty’s cruelty-free “ is cushion foundation Match Stix Matte Skinstick. deﬁ nitely lives up to its name. Just like its diverse Fenty family, 46 My face was kept hydrated it comes in 20 shades, and its with a healthy, dewy glow cream-to-powder formula means and did not crack even after it is weightless, easy to blend, hours of wear. e highlight? and is here to stay. Take our Its Triple-Force Anti-Pollution money, @badgalriri! Complex shields the skin from PM2.5 and UV rays.”

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 87 BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT 52 BEST LIP STAIN Burberry Lip Velvet Crush, RM113.20 100 Not a fan of lipsticks? is wand might just be the one for you. W Available in eight hues, Burberry’s Lip Velvet Crush transforms R into a powdery ﬁ nish when dry. Patchiness after a meal, you say? I N N E No such problem here.

AINA SYAHIRAH, Co-founder Of Kulet Most memorable moment ... My sisters caught wind of my new role as a Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge, and the next thing I knew, they were already in my room saying, “I hope there are some for us because we’re here to help out!” Being a Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge ... was a fun ride. I loved discovering hidden gems from brands I’ve not tried out. I don’t think I would’ve been as adventurous if it wasn’t for this. Make-up or skincare ... I was a make-up girl for the longest time but I’ve recently switched camps. Taking good care of your skin is so important. I now either do not have to apply as much make-up, or when I’m all glammed up, my make-up looks so much better! 5511

BEST TONER SK-II Facial Treatment Essence, RM499 “ is is an iconic bestseller for good reason, and it’s not just because of the 90 percent Pitera formulation. My skin was calmer immediately after application, and in just one week, it was strengthened, healthier, and more radiant than before.”

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56BEST LIP BALM Nars Orgasm Afterglow Lip Balm, RM99 Hydrating and with a tinge of natural colour, this Monoi oil-fortifi ed lip balm from Nars is a One sleep away from 53fresh, well-rested skin minimalist’s dream. e cherry on top goes to its hint of gold pearls, which promises to give the lips a fl ush of pink and radiance. BEST OVERNIGHT TREATMENT Dermalogica Sound Sleep Cocoon, RM409 (50ml) French lavender, patchouli, and sandalwood will lull you to sleep just as easily as it relieves the built-up tension in the face and body. e 58 gel-cream texture also melts on the skin to give BEST LIP CRAYON instant hydration. Marc Jacobs Beauty Le Marc Liquid Lip Crayon, RM110 With Marc Jacobs Beauty’s crayon lipstick on hand, there is no need to worry about colouring out of the lines anymore—here’s looking at you, perfectionists. O R Featuring liquid and cream fi nishes, one swipe of this highly pigmented lip F E L

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BEST BODY OIL Bio-Oil, RM32.95 (60ml) One of the fi rst choices for doctors and pharmacists for 57 treating scars and stretch marks. Vitamin E and a mixture of plant extracts help reduce infl ammation and unfavourable skin conditions. For optimum results, apply Bio-Oil twice daily for at least three months. 55 BEST FIRMING OIL 59 BEST SKINCARE Melvita L’Or Rose Firming Oil, RM186 TOOL Derived from 100 percent natural Foreo Luna Mini 2, RM636 BEST EYE MASK ingredients, Melvita’s fi rming oil will L’Occitane Reine Blanche Illuminating EyeEy “ is revolutionary face brush has not only reduce dimple-prone skin changed my daily cleansing routine Care & Mask, RM183 but also aid in slimming. Magical, A cup of coff ee might be the jolt youyo completely. e T-Sonic pulsations no? For best results, massage into skin help to eff ectively remove impurities need in the morning, but considerconsider twice a day from the bottom of the adding this lightweight L’OccitaneL’Occitane from my skin, leaving it feeling thighs to the top of the buttocks. smooth and primed for products eye care and mask to your beauty “I applied it post-L’Or Rose Refi ning routine. Infused with meadowsweetmeadowswee applied after. I also like the silicone Scrub and it didn’t leave any sticky brush as it’s more hygienic.” and white mulberry extracts, the residue. True to its claims, my skin product’s cool metal applicator andand felt smooth and supple after, too.” caff eine can be the soothing wake-upwake-u call and eye depuff er you need.

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 89 BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT BEST 62ANTI-AGEING MOISTURISER Clarins Extra-Firming Day Cream 100 (All Skin Types), RM345 W Get younger-looking and smoother skin R with Clarins’s Extra-Firming Day Cream. I E e strong regenerative capabilities of the N N kangaroo ﬂ ower extract from Australia has been proven to fend away the signs of time.

B E S T L I Q U I D LIPSTICK Age gracefully and Burberry Liquid Lip Velvet, naturally, whether B E S T you’re in your 30s or RM108.40 60WRINKLE you’ve just hit the 6-0 Available in 14 shades ranging FILLER from reds to plums, Burberry’s Beaubelle Doctor Perfector – Liquid Lip Velvet makes lips a Flash Lines Away, RM318 luscious dream. Pro tip from Non-invasive and highly international make-up artist eff ective, this tube of Wendy Rowe: “Use the fl at natural fi llers blurs side of the applicator for the fuller lip areas, and the6 tip of 3 away any fi ne lines and wrinkles instantaneously. the applicator for the edges and A combination of Cupid’s bow.” hyaluronic acid, LiftPro + complex concentrate, and milk protein, this is an ideal alternative for those who aren’t yet 64 ready for injectibles.

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BEST NATURAL B E S T EXFOLIATOR MULTIPURPOSE 661Melvita L’Or Rose 1Refi ning Scrub, NATURAL RM108 FACE BALM Neal’s Yard Remedies 65 A mixture of ground argan nnuts,uts, rose hip oil, and exfoliating Wild Rose Beauty Balm, RM287.80 sugars, this gel scrub will “I was overwhelmed by its initial BEST LIP GLOSS ttransformransform into a creamy texture oiliness but 20 minutes in, the balm Chanel Rouge Coco Lip Blush, RM127 as soon as it touches the skin, while settled into the skin nicely, healing Whether it’s soft and subtle or fi ery envelopingnveloping it with the delicate L’Or dry and damaged skin along the and neon, Chanel’s Rouge Coco Lip RRose se scent. “ e smell of the rose hip way. Love the calming blend Blush doubles as a cheek blush as well. oill is soothing and calming, and the of organic wild rose hip oil and is gel lippie dries down matte, scrubrub doesn’t dry out the skin at all.” geranium and patchouli essential but its Hydraboost complex—a oil that lingered for hours.” combination of jojoba, sunfl ower, and mimosa waxes—will keep your lips comfortable all day long.

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ANEESHA VERIAH Director of e Bowery Group Testing more than 200 products ... was like walking into a candy store. I’ve never been surrounded with so many beauty products in my life and when boxes of products kept arriving, I found myself asking, “Should I be laughing or crying?” Make-up or skincare ... I love both but I do lean towards skincare. I usually reserve make-up for events. For that radiant glow ... Beauty comes from within, so it’s about eating right, drinking lots of water, and exercising. If you’re reading this, it’s time to hydrate. 67 B E S T P O W E R L I Q U I D LIPSTICK Kat Von D Everlasting Glimmer Veil, RM103 All things shiny make the best statements. is glittery liquid lipstick from Kat Von D is budge-proof, and it behaves for you so you don’t have to on your night out.

BEST BRUSH TIP EYELINER Kat Von D Tattoo Liner, RM93 BEST LIP LINER Perfect your killer cat eyes with Kat66 Von D Everlasting Lip Liner, RM83 Kat Von D’s magical eye-lining Hand-picked by Kat Von D herself, this 30-shade lip liner was created to brush, by using light pressure to match its counterparts Everlasting Liquid Lipstick and Studded Kiss draw on precise, crisp lines. To Crème Lipstick, but you can also choose to wear it alone. prolong the eyeliner, simply wipe Glides so smoothly on the lips, you’ll be amazed. oﬀ the eyeshadow build-up from the bristles and you’re golden. Kat Von D uses this on the daily for her enviable ﬂ icks, too.

68HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 91 Marc Jacobs Beauty’s light, delicate blush can do no wrong

BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT100 70 BEST BLUSHER W Marc Jacobs Beauty Air Blush Soft Glow Duo, RM205 I R Inspired by one of the ﬁ rst celebrity make-up artists, N N E Way Bandy, Marc Jacobs designed this light-as-air blusher with a new ingredient, Japanese air powder, at the core of its formula. Its silky soft, cream-like texture leaves the skin radiant and luminous, and you looking like the vision of good health.

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S BEST EYE SERUM L Lancôme Advanced Génefi que Yeux Light-Pearl, RM252.83 Reinforced with light-infused formula, the serum hydrates the undereye area while the fl exible massage pearl is a game-changer 73 in itself. Not only does it allow for easier control, but its fi rm yet fl exible touch soothes and refreshes BEST SERUM the eye contours, too. FOR DRY SKIN Bioderma Hydrabio Sérum, RM103.70 One of the best-kept secret among French ladies, Bioderma’s hydrating serum is perfect for sensitive and dry skin types. With its non- comedogenic, hypoallergenic, and allergen-free properties, your skin is in safe hands as it A fl exible massage boosts your skin health. 69 applicator to reach all corners of the eye area BEST NAIL CARE L’Occitane Shea Nail & Cuticle O R F Nourishing Oil, RM75 E L

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you’re out and about, L’Occitane’s L Shea Nail & Cuticle Nourishing Oil uses only shea butter harvested by the Burkina Faso women, and softens and strengthens both nails and cuticles. “ e brush applicator allows you to get to every little 74 crevice and the oil doubles up as a good cuticle moisturiser.” B E S T B O D Y LOTION Topicrem Ultra-Moisturizing Body Milk, RM74.90 Sold every 20 seconds 71 worldwide, this French body milk is as popular as the numbers suggests. BEST BROW PENCIL Designed to provide 24- Beneﬁ t Goof Proof Brow Pencil, RM117 hour protection with its “Brows are everything to me. I’ve heard so many good reviews paraben-free formula, of this product and am so glad to have tested it out. It’s a double- this unctuous emulsion ended brow pencil with a spoolie on the other end, which makes isis safe for even the most ﬁ lling in brows super simple. It’s waterproof, too. delicate skin. “Highly moisturising, a little goes a long way as this non-greasy body milk seeps into the 72 skin easily.”

92 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 BEST NAIL TREATMENT BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 Orly Breathable Treatment + Shine, RM74.50 Beautiful manicured fi ngers do not have to HOT come at a cost of stained yellow nails. Infused with argan oil, provitamin B5, vitamin C, and a special polymer that allows air and vapour to pass through it—hence, its name—Orly’s Breathable 100 Treatment + Shine is a dream come true for every nail polish lover. BAZAAR’s judges love how it W 75 strengthens nails and prevents fresh colours from R chipping—no top or base coat necessary. I N N E 76 BEST EVENING FOUNDATION YSL Beauté All Hours Encre de Peau, RM255 “ is is the ultimate companion for a red-carpet evening. Full coverage, matte, waterproof, B E S T F A C I A L and transfer-resistant, it’s 78CLEANSER designed to stay up to 24 hours Elizabeth Arden Superstart on the skin, and is suitable for – Whip to Clay – Probiotic all skin types. Its oil-control Cleanser, RM139.60 formula also means a fl awless Probiotics are great for fi nish that doesn’t wear off .” the body, and also, on the skin. Consisting of pink and green clays, glycerin,glycerin, and probiotics, this mousse cleanser is meameantn to be left on the skin foforr one minute, before rinsingrinsing off to reveal smaller porespor and a radiant complexion.complexio . 79 BEST FULL COVERAGE CONCEALER Clé de Peau Beauté Concealer, RM264 Twist, swipe, conceal. is award-winning cream concealer delivers full, long-lasting coverage to temporarily mask the toll of all the late nights. An added bonus? e SPF 25, making this double- time concealer an off er you cannot refuse.

Foundations are never a one- size-ﬁ ts-all deal; always use your skin type as an initial guide 77 BEST GLOW ENHANCER Nars Orgasm Illuminating Loose Powder, RM99 Blushers and highlighters may come and go, but the Nars Orgasm Illuminating Loose Powder legitimately looks good on everybody. Amped up with shimmer powders in the classic Orgasm hue, a slight dust of this on your cheeks and décolletage will easily upgrade your day-to-day look.

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KF BONG International celebrity make-up artist Most memorable moment ... Testing out all of the products that were sent to me. ere were many surprise wins, and I’m glad to be learning more about new brands in the market. e hottest trend now ... Colour experimentation. Instead of the B E S T CLEANSING80 OIL 90s nude eyes, people are more adventurous, going for colourful Erborian Black Cleansing Oil, eyeshadows such as pink and oranges. RM84 Caught oﬀ guard by ... e Foreo UFO. I get to cut down my mask Charcoal has been part of the Egyptians’ beauty ritual time from the usual 20 minutes to 90 seconds? No complaints at all. millennia ago, and today, Erborian reignites the love for ancestral remedies in the form of its ebony cleansing oil. Featuring a combination of seven herbs and binchotan, Erborian’s purifying oil removes make-up swiftly For photo-ready without drying the skin. cheekbones, consider mixing and matching highlighters

BEST SUNSCREEN FOR MEN Jack Black Oil-Free Sun Guard SPF 45 Sunscreen, RM94 “I love the size of the bottle. It’s perfect for me when I am doing on-the-go coaching at the BEST FACIAL81 WASH race track. When applied onto my skin, I can FOR MEN feel it actually getting into my pores, BBiothermiotherm Homme Force Supreme Cleanser, as it leaves a nice mattifying texture. A small RM150.94 dollop goes a long way, too.” is gentle daily cleanser soothes irritated skin and restores skin cells to a harmonious balance, thanks to the special thermal plankton extract. Blue microparticles also slough oﬀ dead skin cells to reveal a skin that’s naturally bright and renewed. 84

BEST MAKE-UP82 SETTING SPRAYSPRAY BEST HIGHLIGHTER Urban Decay All Nighter Long Lasting Kat Von D Alchemist Holographic Palette, Makeup Setting Spray, RM131 RM136 “My make-up never feels complete without ﬁ nishing wwitithh Inspired by the art of alchemy, this this setting spray, and because of its patented TemTemperaturperaturee holographic palette comes in four shades Control Technology, nothing on your face will budge. that are packed with refractive pearls. While I’ve tried others, this is still the one that I will Take your pick and strobe the powder always repurchase. And I like how it’s a mist, making it across your cheekbones, Cupid’s bow, the best for even distribution.” eyes ... you name it. Extremely iridiscent, this can be used as an eyeshadow topper, 83 too. Pure chemistry.

94 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 85 HOT BEST ANTI-AGEING MASK Foreo Call It A Night, RM47 100 Packaged in an unassuming box, Foreo’s Call It A Night, designed to be W used alongisde Foreo’s nifty UFO gadget, requires only 90 seconds of R your life, from start to end. Formulated with antioxidant olive oil and I E regenerative ginseng, this UFO-activated treatment makes it easy to call N N it a day and emerge, less than two minutes later, with supersoft skin.

Tap, dab, and keep the eye area soft and supple with Sisley Paris’s eye contour cream MOST LUXURIOUS LIFTING CREAM Swissline Cell Shock Luxe-Lift Rich Cream, RM708 Marine collagen, gold, and silk protein ... let’s talk luxury. Designed for dry and dehydrated BEST86 EYE CREAM skin types, this revitalising salve Sisley Paris Sisleÿa L’Intégral Anti-Âge also contains biomimetic growth Eye Contour Cream, RM641 factors, which improves skin’s “ is works great as an overnight density and fi rmness. 88 product because you can notice the fi ne lines around your eye area vanish, thanks to soy peptides. Day after day, you will notice your eyes looking brighter and wider, and the puffi ness under your eyes gone before you know it.” 89 BEST ANTI- A G E I N G S E R U M F O R MEN Biotherm Homme Force Supreme Youth Architect Serum, RM297.16 Super potent yet lightweight, the blue algae and life-plankton infused serum will maintain facial contours and banish signs of any fi ne lines.

Gothic berry lips at Valentino Autumn/Winter ’17 BEST 90SKIN HYDRATOR FOR MEN Sisley Paris Sisleÿum for Men Anti-Age Global Revitalizer – Normal Skin, RM849 87 “Love at fi rst sight, the packaging is a deep grey BEST SHAVING metallic colour that fi ts right CREAM FOR MEN in the hand. Packed with 18 Truefi tt & Hill Sandalwood good-for-skin ingredients, thisthis Shaving Cream, RM122 product has the right balancbalancee “I enjoy the smooth, clean shave of texture—rich enough foforr I got with this glycerin-based my skin yet light enough toto shaving cream, and it keeps my skin be quickly absorbed. A bibigg moisturised all day long. e spicy thumbs up.” sandalwood fragrance is a beautiful BAZAAR tip: Pair this with Truefi tt masculine touch as well.” & Hill’s badger haired Tube Traveller Shaving Brush for an optimal shaving experience

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 95 BEST MALAYSIAN BEST MALAYSIAN FACE PALETTE 91 93 LOOSE POWDER Duck Cosmetics You Glow Girl Face Palette, RM113 Duck Cosmetics Girl Powder – Inspired by tropical getaways, this face palette Loose Setting Powder, RM84.50 comes in Golden Glow and Bohemian Tan, Bake your face to your heart’s content with inclusive of two blushers, a highlighter, and a this non-comedogenic loose setting powder BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 bronzer. Get island-ready with these buildable hues. that will keep skin translucent and smooth throughout the day. HOT BEST MALAYSIAN REVITALISING MASK 92 BEST MALAYSIAN Makayla Oxygen Bubble Mask, RM49 94 SHEER LIPSTICK A fun oxygenated bubble mask for all skin types, Duck Cosmetics LipstickWitU Lipstick, RM70.50 100 as tea tree oil lavender extract and argan stem cell is sheer lipstick formulation keeps your will exfoliate dead skin cell build-ups while puckers hydrated and also comes in various W R keeping acne at arm’s length. “My skin felt a shades for every skin tone. I E little tingly when I slathered the product on N N but oh-so-fresh and clean upon cleansing!” BEST MALAYSIAN 95 MAKE-UP REMOVER Ferrarossa Makeup Melter and Cleansing Oil, RM79 A water-emulsifying oil make-up remover and cleanser is a lazy girl’s dream. Requiring minimal eﬀ ort after a long day, this lavender-, argan oil-, and vitamin E-infused make-up remover is seriously the one. 91

BEST MALAYSIAN NAIL 96 POLISH REMOVER 92 Polished by Sama Sama Nail Polish Remover Pads, RM19.90 A wudhu-friendly beauty brand, all Sama Sama products are designed speciﬁ cally for Muslim women, including this oil-based nail polish remover. “It removes nail polishes easily and hydrates the nails.” 93

BEST MALAYSIAN MATTE 97 LIQUID LIPSTICK Sorﬁ na Hal Pure Lipcream Matte Color, RM58 “ is lipstick has a true matte powdery ﬁ nish, but it doesn’t feel heavy or dry on the lips. I like the screw-on packaging, and it is worth the slightly higher price tag.” 94

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MALAYSIANYour homegrown BEAUTY beauty must-haves BRANDS of 2018. BEST MALAYSIAN 99 CREAM FOUNDATION 99 Envidia 5-in-1 Cream Foundation, RM99 Using the Korean Transform Essence Systems technology, this cream foundation comes with an SPF 50 PA +++ protection and oﬀ ers light to medium coverage. If dewy, luminous skin is your goal, don’t miss out on this gem.

BEST MALAYSIAN 98 100 EYESHADOW PALETTE BEST MALAYSIAN Zhuco All Time Favorite Eyeshadow, RM120 MATTE CREAM LIPSTICK “Cruelty-free, approved by the Ministry of Health, Hermosa Cosmetics Signature Matte Lipcreme, RM39 and adhering to FDA standards, this eyeshadow Available in seven gorgeous shades of neutrals palette comes in both matte and shimmer ﬁ nishes. 24 98 and corals, lips will remain irresistible all long-wearing colours to pick day and night, thanks to the vitamin E and from? Absolutely wonderful.” collagen in this matte cream lipstick.

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96 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT WHY BAZAAR1 LOVES IT Swissline’s Cell Shock Luxe-Lift Rich Cream comes in three 100 delightful texture formulas ranging from light to very rich, W R to suit every skin type. is sumptuous cream delivers quick I E results and locks in moisture, all while combating wrinkles N N and the loss of ﬁ rmness in the visage, inviting you to engage in a ritual so lush, you’ll momentarily forget that you’re in the comfort of your own home. True luxury, in a jar. MOST LUXURIOUS LIFTINGLIFTING CREAM Swissline CellCe Shock Luxe-Lift f Rich Cream, RM708 8

LUXURIOUS2 TOUCHTOUC By merging the latest scientifi c innovation beauty with indulgent ingredients and tex to create products that go beyond the funct Swissline’s skincare is delightful to the sen every way imaginable. Discover the moistu g line-fi lling benefi ts of the Luxe-Lift Rich C marine collagen; experience renewed vitality and the antioxidative properties of gold and silk as you massage this silken cream into your skin; and revel in plump, velvety skin that’s smooth to the touch. 3 WHY DON’T YOU ... Treat yourself to an uplifting massage while moisturising? Apply the cream using circular motions, moving from the face down to the neck and the décolletage—do it daily for best results. Say goodbye to dull, ageing skin and expect refi ned facial contours with each use. “Upon application, it feels just like second skin. It’s also more comfortable and absorbs more easily compared to most rich creams,” says Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge KF Bong.

Available at Cheerful Beauteepro partner beauty salons nationwide. www.cheerful.com.my BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 BEST HOT100 FASHION- W FORWAR D R I N N E FOUNDFOUNDATIONATION Dior Backstage FaceFace & Body Foundation, RRM155

W H Y 1B A Z A A R LOVES IT Perfect skin is easily attainable with Dior’s Backstage Face & Body Foundation, made with “beauty- enhancing pigments” that provide instant, fl awless, buildable coverage with a fl uid texture. “I redesigned all the indispensable items in my make-up bag, for make-up artists and for every woman who wants a professional result SHADE OF with intuitive products and easy-to- IT2 ALL use tools,” says Peter Philips, creative ese nudes could literally paint and image director of Christian Dior a thousand words. Featuring 21 Makeup, of the Backstage line. ink universal shades, 16 diff erent of it as always having the perfect fi lter intensities, and six undertones ranging on, but IRL. from rosy to olive, yellow, and beige, the made-to-measure waterproof formula will give your skin a natural glow that is both heat- and humidity- 3resistant. Runway proof, basically. WHY DON’T YOU ... Keep your complexion on point wherever you are? Take this foundation with you on the go. e chic, easy-to-carry bottle comes with a nozzle for ease of application à la backstage make- up artists at fashion weeks. “I love the packaging because it’s easy to control the amount of product dispensed,” says Aina Syahirah, Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge.

Available at Dior Beauty boutiques and counters nationwide. www.dior.com BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT WHY BAZAAR1 LOVES IT Almost as if one were running in a fi eld of the delicate 100 but resilient rose de Granville, this luxurious pre-serum W R injects a power-packed dose of energy into your skin to I N E help fi ght microinfl ammation and rebalance the skin. N Skin is kept youthful, soft, and invigorated while the soft scent of roses starts the day off beautifully. BEST PRE-SERUM Dior Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose, RM867

INN FULL2 BLOOM e Dior Dior garden roses in Loire Valley grow w hout the slightest exposure to chemical rtilisers, utilising all the nutrients of ts rich terrain. For each Prestige La M cro-Huile de Rose bottle, 20 diff erent micronutrients are extracted from the r se in a slow, heatless dual extraction, c refully encapsulated in delicate pink m ropearls, and then suspended in a fresh l quid phase. Upon application, the thin m mbranes of the pearls burst, releasing t micronutrients directly into the skin, its integrity and effi cacy intact. 3 WHY DON’T YOU ... Rid your skin of fatigue and stress by returning it to its harmonious balance? Whether you use it daily as a pre- serum to boost the eff ects of your skincare routine, or i termittently as an intense treatment, you’ll see results in no time. “Besides the beautiful bottle and delightful rose scent, the Dior Prestige La Micro-Huile de Rose wowed me with its instant brightening and hydrating eff ects, and my boosted skin radiance,” says Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge, Dr Teh Jia Li.

Available at Dior Beauty boutiques and counters nationwide. www.dior.com BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT BEST OVERNIGHT 100 TREATMENT W R Dermalogica Sound Sleep Cocoon, RM409 (50ml) I N N E

W H Y 1B A Z A A R LOVES IT When it comes to your skincare routine, WHY 2DON’T sleep is a crucial component for the YOU ... skin’s recovery from assaults of the day. Gently cup your face with your Drift into dreamland with the Sound hands and breathe in deeply for Sleep Cocoon, a gel-cream treatment three seconds after application, infused with essential oils such as French repeat three times right before lavender, patchouli, and sandalwood to going to bed, and indulge in a ease you into restful slumber. Persian deep sleep. Turn on some binaural silk tree, wu-zhu-yu, and tamarind seed beats curated by Dermalogica extract, on the other hand, will keep at www.soundsleepcocoon.com to skin hydrated and radiant through the achieve a deeper state of relaxation night, until morning. while allowing your skin to soak up the goodness of this paraben- free, relief-inducing gel.

J U D G E FAVOURITE 3Transform the texture of your skin in just one sleep. As Dr Teh Jia Li, one of Harper’s BAZAAR’s Beauty Awards 2018 judges, attests, “I love the gel-cream texture that literally melts on the skin upon application. It absorbs quickly, too, giving instant hydration and skin brightening eﬀ ects.” Consider this a crucial addition to your beauty routine.

W H Y 1B A Z A A R LOVES IT An antioxidant powerhouse, vitamin C tends to break down easily when exposed to light and air. However, Dermalogica’s BioLumin-C Serum formula is fortifi ed with the ultra stable form of vitamin C, aminopropyl ascorbyl phosphate, which not only improves the skin’s natural defence system but also fi ghts against environmental aggressors and oxidative stress. Goodbye, fi ne lines and hyperpigmentation.

SEE THE2 LIGHTLIGH Truly the answer to today’s skin concerns, this vial of serum is prov to brighten skin complexion, whe used in the morning and at night Keep your skin free from oxidativ stress with a dropper full, and watc as it absorbs eﬀ ortlessly into your face and neck. Luminous skin is ju a drop away.

DID YOU KNOW? is citrusy serum is also formulated with gentle exfoliating ingredients 3such as lactic acid that will help reveal brighter skin, and chia seed oil to keep skin hydrated at all times. With its light zesty scent, this serum invigorates the senses while working as a great pick-me-up. Curious to see your improved skin texture ahead of time? Visit www.biolumincmirror.com for a little sneak peek.

Available at authorised Dermalogica skincare centres by Esthetics International Group Berhad. www.dermalogica.com.my; www.facebook.com/dermalogica.malaysia; www.instagram.com/dermalogica_my BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT100 W R I N N E BEST NATURAL A MIST2 HIT Formulated with Borēaline TONER Protect, which comes from the black spruce tree’s bark, this The Herb Farm Protecting Skin Defend Mist, RM138 protective skin mist is great to have on hand at all times. As it forms a defence barrier over the skin, e Herb Farm’s Protecting Skin Defend Mist then gently delivers the perfect dose of nutrients, all while stimulating collagen to curb signs of ageing—much-needed if you live in the city or frequently experience stress and fatigue.

W H Y B A1 Z A A R LOVES IT For long-term skin health, maximise the beneﬁ ts of this mist by applying liberally after make-up application and throughout the day as a quick pick-me-up. “I love the 3 all-natural ingredients,” says WHY DON’T Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty YOU ... Awards 2018 judge, Aneesha Veriah. “ is mist also makes Introduce the good touch my skin brighter and of nature to harsh oﬃ ce more radiant.” conditions? e Herb Farm’s all-natural Protecting Skin Defend Mist protects skin from external stressors such as UV rays, pollution, harsh weather, and even blue light. Just spritz onto the skin, and this mist will leave you feeling refreshed, brighter, and more radiant almost immediately.

Available at TNS Skin Lab stores nationwide. www.mytnsskinlab.com BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT100 BEST SOS SERUM W I R Trilogy Very Gentle Calming Serum, RM153 (30ml) N N E

W H Y B A Z A A R LOVES1 IT Looking for a great all-natural remedy that’s perfect for sensitive skin types? Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge Julie Anne Kang fi nds respite in this calming serum. “I would defi nitely 3 repurchase this,” she says. “It has helped with my eczema, calmed WHY DON’T sensitive fl are-ups on my skin, and YOU ... sits very beautifully under make-up.” Take cue from Kate Middleton, who used Trilogy to achieve her fl awless complexion during pregnancy? If you’ve got a skin SOS, soothe it with this botanical-based serum. Apply on clean skin during a fl are-up, or under your favourite moisturiser everyday to minimise redness. If it’s a Duchess of CALM ON OVER Cambridge go-to, it’s good 2 enough for us. Stow a bottle of Trilogy’s Very Gentle Calming Serum in your bag and you’ll never have to worry about skin irritation again. Not only does this certifi ed- natural formula contain antioxidant- rich maqui berries, skin-strengthening SyriCalm, and soothing ingredients such as chamomile and calendula, it keeps skin hydrated, too. If you’re looking for a calming fi x, consider this the answer to troubled skin.

Available at TNS Skin Lab stores nationwide. www.mytnsskinlab.com BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT BEST MAKE-UP 100 SETTING SPRAY W Urban Decay All Nighter R I N N E Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray, RM131

READY,1 SET, GO Picture this: You’ve spent hours achieving the ideal foundation blend on your skin, perfecting that enviable cut crease, and drawing the sharpest cat-eye slick, only to have all that make-up slide off in the evening—before the fun even begins. A quick spritz of Urban Decay’s All Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray does the trick; ensuring make-up is set and everything is locked in place, for up to 16 hours. A fl awless fi nish, all night long.

WHY BAZAAR2 LOVES IT Humidity may cause make-up to melt, but this Urban Decay setting spray utilises Temperature Control Technology, which lowers the temperature of your make-up to make it last longer. “It sets my make-up in place for the whole day and really controls my skin’s oil production,” says Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge, Aneesha Veriah. No harsh weather’s going to stop you from serving 10/10 beauty looks everyday. 3 WHY DON’T YOU ... Spritz your eyeshadow brush with this microﬁ ne calibrated mist, for a more intense shadow colour and longer wear. For the full eﬀ ect, hold and mist eight to 10 inches away from the face. Not a single drop of sweat is going to dampen your night now. Consider yourself party-ready.

Available at Urban Decay and Sephora stores nationwide. www.urbandecay.com.my y BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT W H Y B1 A Z A A R LOVES IT A not-so-secret remedy used around the 100 world to lighten stretch marks and scars, W Bio-Oil has long been known for its highly R eﬀ ective qualities that go beyond skin deep. I N N E e multi-purpose peach-tinged oil can also be used as a lip primer and massaged into cuticles for healthier nails.

“A very versatile oil-based product that can be used all over the body, including as a hair O R F serum.” – Aneesha Veriah, Harper’s BAZAAR E L E

S Beauty Awards 2018 judge L BEST BODY OIL Bio-Oil, RM32.95 (60ml)

WHY DON’T2 YOU ... Indulge in Bio-Oil’s healing properties? Besides reducing the appearance of scars and stretch marks, there’s multiple reasons why this award-winning product is so sought after. Now in a brand-new packaging, this specialised skincare oil also evens out skin tone, and gives better skin texture. A staple that works wonders, time and time again. 3 IN IT TO WIN IT More than your typical oil-based moisturiser, this South African creation’s breakthrough ingredient, PurCellin Oil, gives it that lightweight texture that makes absorption into the skin so eﬀ ortless. Formulated with a blend of vitamins A and E, as well as natural plant oils such as calming lavender, chamomile, calendula, and rosemary, Bio-Oil’s pleasant scent calms the body and mind, too.

Available at leading pharmacies nationwide. www.bio-oil.com/my BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT100 BEST EYE GEL Comfort Zone Sacred Nature W R Eye Cream-Gel, RM188 I N N E

W H Y B1 A Z A A R LOVES IT Going organic isn’t just great for your skin, it’s better for the environment, too. is 99 percent naturally derived Comfort Zone eye gel packs a punch with six active ingredients that help combat dark E C O circles, making it an instant solution WARRIOR2 for puffi ness. While the hyaluronic Adhering to the brand’s acid works on preventing premature philosophy of going au naturel wrinkles, the buriti oil is a great with its raw materials, antioxidant source, brightening and the Sacred Nature line by lifting tired eyes. e mid-range Comfort Zone promises beauty pH level also keeps it gentle to use for you and the planet. Its around the eyes without imparting commitment to being the better any stinging sensation. “ e light skincare alternative is evident in formula makes it easy for skin to its richly formulated products, absorb, and it’s very moisturising,” fully certifi ed by Ecocert, one of says Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty the largest organic certifi cation Awards 2018 judge Aneesha Veriah. organisations. Its Zero Impact campaign also strives to off set carbon dioxide emissions caused by the production of the line’s packaging. Clear skin, with an 3 even clearer conscience. WHY DON’T YOU ... Find more ways than one to use Comfort Zone’s Sacred Nature Eye Cream-Gel? Apply around the contours of your lips to iron out those smile lines, or apply over make-up for a quick refresher. If your undereye concealer is giving you major creases, blend it with this eye cream-gel for longer lasting results and a smoother application.

Available at authorised Comfort Zone beauty salons and spas nationwide. www.comfortzone.it/en BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT

WHY DON’T1 YOU ... 100 Swap out your regular nail polish remover for W R a quicker, more convenient option? Polished I E by Sama Sama’s Nail Polish Remover Pads, a N N product by Sama Sama Spa, are designed to take off even the most stubborn of nail polishes, giving you a fresh, clean slate for your next application. e honeycomb texture on each circular pad also gets into hard-to-reach corners, ensuring eff ective, breezy removals only. BEST FORCE OF EIGHT When it comes to2 non-toxic nail care, MALAYSIAN Polished by Sama Sama’s products come without the detrimental ingredients that NAIL POLISH can damage nails, but it’s the 8-Free stamp of approval—the beauty standard du jour—that you want. Formulated REMOVER without xylene and animal-based ingredients, Polished by Sama Sama’s Polished by Sama Sama Nail Polish Remover Pads are certifi ed Nail Polish Remover Pads, RM19.90 8-Free with its vegan-friendly and shariah 3 compliant ingredients. W H Y B A Z A A R LOVES IT Brittle nails begone. ese remover pads are strictly free of acetone and acetate—solvents that cause dry nails and fl aky cuticles. While regular nail polish removers have the tendency to go heavy on the alcohol content, these oil-based remover pads help nourish and strengthen the nails. Dr Teh Jia Li, one of the Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judges, attests, “It’s a very convenient nail polish remover—the colour comes off easily with a few light strokes.”

Available at Sama Sama Spa, A02, Plaza Jelutong, Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam. Tel: 03-7859 7227; Loka, 1.13A, Level 1, Nu Sentral Mall. Tel: 03-2276 4128; Style Annexe, 17, 18 & 19, G3, Publika Shopping Gallery. Tel: 03-6206 1842; Modvier, 86, Jalan Maarof, Bangsar Baru. Tel: 03-2202 1371; www.mysmink.com; www.koyara.com; www.halalnco.com; and www.gohalal.com.my BEST BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT100 MALAYSIAN W MAKE-UP R I N N E REMOVER Ferrarossa Makeup Melter and Cleansing Oil, RM79

W H Y B1 A Z A A R LOVES IT e calming infusion of lavender oil transforms Ferrarossa’s Makeup Melter and Cleansing Oil into the ultimate sensorial experience. Topped with moisturising aloe vera oil and the anti-ageing argan oil, P E A C E O F and we’ve got an easy winner. MIND2 Not only does it remove every When skincare application trace of make-up without becomes a chore, you might stripping your skin of its natural be tempted to neglect certain moisture, Ferrarossa’s cleansing necessary steps. But with an oil also leaves you with a clean all-encompassing product like canvas that’s prepped and ready Ferrarossa’s make-up remover, for the rest of your skincare you’ll actually look forward to work its magic. to removing that full face of make-up before bed.

“ is make-up removing oil smells so good, which makes the entire process very relaxing. Just two pumps and it melts away all traces of make-up.” – Julie Anne Kang, Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge

WHY DON’T YOU ... 3Pamper yourself with a quick facial oil massage? Pump a few drops of Ferrarossa’s Makeup Melter and Cleansing Oil on your palms, rub both together to warm up the oil, and apply on your skin. Starting from the centre of the face, work your way outwards in an upward circular motion, gently massaging the facial muscles to relieve tension. Regular facial massages also help to achieve a youthful inner glow while hitting the pause button on wrinkles.

AAvailablevailable at www.ferrarossa.com and www.fashionvalet.com BEST BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 MALAYSIAN HOT100 LOOSE POWDER W R Duck Cosmetics Girl Powder I N N E – Loose Setting Powder, RM84.50

W H Y B1 A Z A A R LOVES IT Glow is in, but looking greasy? Not so much. Well loved by many, G A M E and a star product in its own CHANGER2 league, Duck Cosmetics’ Girl e Girl Powder – Loose Powder – Loose Setting Powder Setting Powder is an ultra- is the much-needed seal to every fi ne blend of vitamin E and modern woman’s beauty look. sunfl ower seed oil that not is translucent powder sets your only helps with setting your make-up within seconds, and look for perfection, but also keeps the shine at bay all day long. prevents environmental stressors from aff ecting your skin. According to Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge Dr Teh Jia Li, “ is light powder with fi ne shimmers brightens the skin,” and its paraben-free formula, which contains absolutely no comedogenic ingredients, means you won’t have clogged pores or blackheads making surprise 3 appearances on your skin. ON THE GLOW Having a heavy daily schedule shouldn’t be an excuse to neglect beauty duties. is one- jar wonder comes with a travel-size puff for easy touch-ups throughout the day. And with the built-in compact mirror, you won’t need to stop at every window for quick refl ection checks. Fit this in even the smallest of bags, or add a splash of royal purple to your beauty collection—this instant pick-me-up will quickly become part of your daily ritual.

Available at Duck Cosmetics Store, 6.18.00, Level 6, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2110 5959; www.sephora.my; and www.fashionvalet.com BEST BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT MALAYSIAN 100 CREAM W R I N N E FOUNDATION Envidia 5-in-1 Cream Foundation, RM99

F A N T A S T I C 2FIVE Great coverage aside, the true foundation of picture-perfect skin is good skincare. is multipurpose must-have is packed with goodness— combining balm, essence, moisturiser, concealer, and SPF 50 PA+++ in one compact-size case. Besides saving you time and space in your bag, it will also rescue you from skin emergencies.

W H Y 1B A Z A A R LOVES IT Envidia’s 5-in-1 Cream Foundation puts you fi ve steps ahead of the game in just one quick step. is medium-coverage skincare-make-up hybrid conceals pigmentation and evens out skin tone, while keeping make-up perfectly matte for more 3 than eight hours. If eff ortless glass N E W K I D skin is your goal, look no further. ON THE BLOCK Envidia carefully curates its products using one of Korea’s latest skin Envidia may be new to the game, but technologies, Transform Essence it is fast becoming a strong contender Systems, which fl awlessly blends in the Malaysian beauty scene. Take skin-loving ingredients into make- it from Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty up. Now this is beauty made easy. Awards 2018 judge Aina Syahirah, who has nothing but rave reviews for the winning product: “It gives me so much coverage without making my face cakey. I didn’t even need to set it with powder!”

Tel: 013-345 1511. www.envidia.com.my BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT100 W WHY 1DON’T R YOU ... I N N E Dress your lips with a lush, buttery lip cream that has a matte ﬁ nish, designed to suit every occasion, from power meetings to buzzy brunches? From soft neutrals to bright pops, take your pick from one of Hermosa Cosmetics’s seven Signature Matte Lipcreme colours. e best part? No touch-ups required.

BEST MALAYSIAN 2W H Y B A Z A A R LOVES IT MATTE CREAM Featuring shades that complement Asian LIPSTICK skin tones beautifully without drying out Hermosa Cosmetics Signature Matte Lipcreme, RM39 the lips, Hermosa Cosmetics’s Signature Matte Lipcreme is the ultimate go-to for those prone to chapped lips. Non-tacky and lightweight, this matte lip cream also doubles 3 as a blusher. Win-win. LIP SERVICE A nourishing lip cream that boasts long-lasting wear up to eight hours, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge Julie Anne Kang has given this Signature Matte Lipcreme her seal of approval: “Smooth and creamy, it feels very comfortable on the lips throughout the day,” she says. “Best of all, it is formulated with collagen and vitamin E that leave the lips plump and soft.”

www.hermosabybelinda.com BEAUTY AWARDS 2018 HOT WHY1 DON’T YOU ... Banish blackheads and clogged pores 100 with this gentle purifying mask? As it W transforms from a clear gel to delicate I R foam, Makayla’s Oxygen Bubble Mask N N E penetrates deep into the pores to lift dead skin cells while gently removing impurities. Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge Dr Teh Jia Li loves this, especially as it leaves her skin “feeling soft and smooth, instantly.”

BEST MALAYSIAN REVITALISING MASK Makayla Oxygen Bubble Mask, RM49 (50ml)

NATURAL GOODNESS2 Using the best natural and 3 organic ingredients from France and Germany, W H Y Makayla’s holistic skincare B A Z A A R approach is safe and designed LOVES IT for every skin type. Made from lavender extract, tea e name “Makayla” is tree oil, argan stem cells, inspired by the meaning of and sakura extract, the mask “pakai lah” in Sarawak— bubbles right before your eyes, “to use”. e oxygen mask and delivers a hydrating facial also comes especially handy experience from the comfort during long-haul ﬂ ights, of your own home. as you’re prepping for a fresh-face arrival. Makayla? Don’t mind if we do.

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WHY1 DON’T YOU ... Find an alternative to nylon facial brushes? Gentle yet eﬀ ective, Foreo’s rechargeable W H Y Luna Mini 2 not only aids B A2 Z A A R in deep cleansing, but also LOVES IT functions as a mini facial Available in six colours from massager. Designed using bright pink to sleek black, Swedish technology, this Foreo’s Luna Mini 2 is medical three-zone silicone lightweight and easy to carry brush removes 99.5 percent around, and deserves a place of dirt and grime through its on any bathroom vanity. gentle T-Sonic pulsations. Rid Suitable for every skin type, the your skin of make-up residue waterproof Luna Mini 2 also and dead skin cells, in has an excellent battery life— a hot second. one charge can last up to ﬁ ve months. So fuss-free, you never have to worry about charging it on-the go when you’re jet- 3 setting around the world. FOR REAL RESULTS e Luna Mini 2 is 35 times more hygienic than contemporary facial brushes, which eliminates concerns of bacteria build-up, and presents zero need to replace the brush head. “ e device deep cleans fabulously, and removes the toughest impurities gently without causing skin dryness or tightness,” says Dr Teh Jia Li, Harper’s BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2018 judge. With one sold every seven seconds around the world, this is a skincare shelf must-have and a beauty blogger-favourite.

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U S L W H Y B A Z A A R LOVES2 IT With a paraben-free formula that’s safe enough to use on babies and fragile skin, this product belongs in every bag for all those emergency moments. Topicrem’s Ultra-Moisturizing Body Milk comes in a travel size, making it easy to take with you on your next adventure. Headed to a colder climate that may be S O O T H E harsher on the skin? A small OPER ATOR 1 dollop goes a long way. When it comes to angry, cracked, and sensitive skin, skincare that won’t irritate or aggravate the condition is key in repairing skin health. Topicrem’s Ultra- Moisturizing Body Milk is a smooth emulsion rich in the moisturising properties of glycerin and urea, and together 3 with protecting and WHY DON’T nourishing agents, YOU ... eliminates all signs of dry skin with Apply twice a day on clean skin 24-hour protection. after using Topicrem’s Gentle Cleansing Gel to really see a diﬀ erence? 24-hour hydration is guaranteed with a remanent non- sticky eﬀ ect. “Besides absorbing well and leaving skin feeling super smooth and supple, its lightly scented formula is pleasant to the senses,” says Aneesha Veriah, Harper’s BAZAAR TBeauty Awards 2018 judge. Available at Play Up Advance, G-42(01-04), Ground Floor, Fahrenheit 88. Tel: 03-2110 2758; 01-11, 01-12 & 01-13, First Floor, Berjaya Times Square; Parkson, Paradigm Mall, Johor Bahru; and leading pharmacies nationwide. Beauty

Cryotherapy facial—the cooler path to great skin FREEZE FR AME Are negative temperatures the positive answer to flawless, healthy skin? By Anne Lee.

f freezing reproductive cells for future procreation goodbye, redness—and increasing the skin’s regenerative process. purposes is nothing to bat an eye at these days, the Think boosted collagen and elastin production in your system. possibility of restoring moisture and radiance back to skin with sub-zero temperatures should surely be an ICE, ICE BABY aesthetics advancement that’s just as common. Picture The cryo facial’s low-temperature factor plays a significant role in an ultra-cold cryotherapy facial that is non-invasive, this process. Dr Yip further explains, “Sensitive skin turns red pretty which also soothes irritable skin to bring a natural, easily due to external stimuli such as UV rays, heat, AHA, and Iradiant glow back to your skin—especially useful for BHA. These rapid crimson reactions are due to blood vessel those with sensitive skin that’s prone to redness. dilatations under the skin. And heat is one of the common stimuli that aggravates skin redness. Hence, excessive heat exposure in the SUB-ZERO BEAUTY case of a facial can sometimes do more harm than good.” Dubbed “the new Botox”, cryo facials have quickly become one of The entire cryotherapy process is kept very gentle, starting with the most sought-after treatments in 2018. Employing temperatures a double cleanse to remove impurities off the surface of the skin. that go as low as -10°C, this medical facial is highly efficacious and Then, an ultrasonic scrubber that acts as a two-in-one massager- promises to rejuvenate the skin in just one hour. “During the cryo exfoliant eliminates blackheads. Finally, and the most crucial, is the facial, the ‘cold’ immediately soothes and calms most sensitive skin microneedling step, in which the channels on the skin are stimulated types, and also rejuvenates tired skin,” says Dr Jason Yip, medical to promote better penetration of active ingredients. director and founder of Astute Clinic. “We have patients who leave Without a doubt, this frosty treatment beats the shock of the clinic with visibly brighter, more luminous skin.” immersing your face in a bowl of ice cold water every morning— Using state-of-the-art techniques such as cold electrophoresis or and with better results, too. In an hour, skin will feel calmer and iontophoresis, proprietary brightening serums and vitamins are look brighter, with effects that last up to four weeks. Player one, are delivered via galvanic currents into the depths of the skin sans you ready to brave the blizzard and take the icy plunge? g injections. Fuss-free and with almost instantaneous results within Astute Clinic, L2-18, Level 2, DC Mall, Damansara City, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-28566188. www.astuteclinic.com PHOTOGRAPHY: SHUTTERSTOCK PHOTOGRAPHY: two to three days, this treatment also aids in reducing inflammation—

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YSL Beauté Rouge Pur Couture The Slim Matte Lipstick, RM142 BLURRED LINES Another day, another matte lipstick, but atypical matte lipsticks? Now, that’s something to get our hearts pumping. The Chanel Rouge Allure Liquid Powder feels just like second skin on the lips, with a photographic blurred-lip effect that gives a modern twist to the classic red. Made with plant oils, polymers, and waxes, the liquid powder feels comfortable throughout and dries down to a velvety finish. Or, for a quick slick, make the YSL Beauté Rouge Pur Couture The Slim Matte Lipstick Rock a powder-like your go-to. Extra matte and lip finish with Chanel’s latest intense, YSL Beauté’s first ultra- matte creations slim lipstick is available in 24 shades of pinks and reds. “Drawing a square shape around the Cupid’s bow before applying lip colour is an insider trick known to professional make-up artists,” says YSL Beauté’s global beauty director, Tom Pecheux. “So I simplified the application process and designed a square bullet to help women create a sharp lip line for themselves.” Très, très chic.

Chanel Rouge Allure Liquid BE AUT Y Powder, RM133 What you need, what you want, and what works.

The busy woman’s ultimate wish: gorgeous skin that happens NEWS overnight. For radiant I-woke-up- like-this skin, BAZAAR recommends Shiseido’s Waso Beauty Sleeping Mask. Formulated for dry skin types, this highly Antonia hydrating mask is infused with Basile yuzu seed, peony root, and By Terry Nude- Expert Duo Stick botanical plankton extract, and in N°15 Golden delivers a punch in an almond-sized Brown, RM229 dollop. Refreshed and hydrated skin, is just one sleep away. E P O N DARE TO BARE E Camera-ready, filter-like make-up doesn’t have to be hot and heavy. L I By Terry’s latest Nude-Expert Duo Stick promises a double-the- T goodness effect with its half-foundation, half-highlighter stick. S “You mix the product together to create a sheer, medium coverage,” explains Antonia Basile, By Terry’s UK national trainer and make-up artist, to BAZAAR. “It has a similar feel to a tinted moisturiser, but you can really build on it.” Start with the matte end of Shiseido Waso the stick and work outwards from the centre of the face for a little By Terry Nude-Expert Beauty Sleeping Duo Stick in N°2 Mask, RM140 more coverage where redness and pigmentation tend to commonly Neutral Beige, RM229RM229 appear. Then, with the highlighter side, swipe over the cheeks for a natural luminous glow. That’s the glow-down.

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Beauty Aveda Pramasana Aveda Pramasana Purifying Scalp Protective Scalp Cleanser, RM165 Concentrate, RM222 BAZAAR BLACK BOOK Natasha Kraal reviews Aveda’s Colour Refresh and Pramasana Awakening Scalp Ritual.

IT BEGINS WITH ... Aveda’s signature Pramasana Awakening Scalp Ritual with its Exfoliating Scalp Brush that loosens dry flakes and product build-up, stimulating the scalp from hairline to crown. A PROPER CLEANSE ... at the salon sink with Aveda’s superb Pramasana Purifying Scalp Cleanser that gently yet deeply cleanses with its high-performance pure flower and plant essences. Imagine this as a facial for your scalp, using all-natural products. “A healthy scalp is the start to healthy hair,” says Grace Leong, co-founder and art director of the Aveda-exclusive GraceSalon, who personally tended to my current state of hair loss and limpness. “You will see the difference almost immediately.” COLOUR PERFECTION ... With the canvas all set, Grace selected a beautiful dark brown ash from Aveda’s Full Spectrum Demi+ custom treatment hair colour. “It works for more natural hair tones, bringing a lot of softness and gloss,” says Grace, who has been a leading Malaysian hairstylist for 30 years. KEEP IT GOING ... Monthly maintenance at the salon, or with the at-home botanical-based products, will ensure you keep your hair in good stead, while taking care of ethics and the environment. I say, win all around. From RM190 at GraceSalon, 20 & 21, First Floor, Bangsar Village II. Tel: 03-2287 6323. www.gracesalon.com.my Nourish the scalp and regain a healthy balance of sebum levels Pramasana Exfoliating Scalp with Aveda’s Pramasana ritual Brush, RM127, Aveda

Barrels go clockwise and anti- Dior 5 Couleurs clockwise to Midnight Wish in create 617 Lucky Star, perfect hair RM259 symmetry

STRAIGHT CELESTIAL SMARTS Styling wet hair with hot tools once meant sending your hair to its early death, but Dyson’s Airwrap Styler is changing the game. Engineered to style damp hair, the styler’s intelligent heat control feature measures air temperature up to 40 times a second, and comes with six styling attachments. The Coandă effect uses air to attract hair to the barrels and brushes, POWERS straightening hair or creating Dyson Airwrap Styler Not many colours spell “decadence” quite like shades of burnished gold, curls in no time. Available at Smooth+Control, frosted chestnut, ash grey, or platinum. Inspired by the moon, Dior’s new Dyson Demo stores in The RM1,999 5 Couleurs Midnight Wish eyeshadow palette comes embossed with Gardens Mall and Gurney sprinkles of stars atop finely milled powders that feel luxurious on the Plaza, Penang; and Robinsons eyes with just one sweep. For the best starry-eyed surprises, mix and Golden warmth at Kuala Lumpur, Shoppes at Four Roland Mouret Seasons Place. www.dyson.my match from the 617 Lucky Star and 057 Moonlight palettes. Autumn/Winter ’18

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Beauty NIGHT FEVER Elyza Khamil hits the danceﬂ oor and parties all weekend with three It Girls who embody the vibrant sensuality of Jimmy Choo’s latest fragrance.

GGetting g to know the young fashionable set—Nadiyah SShahab, b, Kiran Jassal, Fatin Afeefa—in the comfort ooff a luxurious rious suite at e St. Regis Kuala Lumpur is nnotot how oonene would imagine spending their Malaysia Day wweekend, kend, but it seems almost serendipitous that we haveve all ended up here. ese radiant, conﬁ dent, andd instinctively seductive women become instant InstagramInstagram friends almost as soon as they rock up onon set, ready for what BAZAARBAZAAR and Jimmy

Choo have in store for them.th Jimmy Choo Getting ready for a night g out on the Fever EDP, Nadiyah Shahab RM451 (100ml) town with a fashionfashion rack to die for, these three beautiful women—glam—glam squad on lock— easilyy have all eyes y on them. With layers of tulle,tulle, enough glitterglitter and sequins to be seen from outer space, and the hottest dance hits bouncing oﬀ the opulent walls ofof It Girls on top at the the Caroline Astor Suite, this is no ordinaryordinary Jimmy Choo Fever digital campaign shoot, it’s a dance party. launch in Malaysia

RED ALERT BRING THE HEAT In true beauty queen style, Kiran Jassal, Miss  When creating Jimmy Choo Fever, perfumers WOMEN ON TOP Nathalie Lorson and Honorine Blanc wanted to Universe Malaysia 2016, struts out in a “evoke the magnetic night-time universe and arouse And paint the town red, they did. In a black tulle skirt and a glittery turquoise femininity and sensuality,” to appeal to the woman who is time when women-celebrating-women is halter top and yells, “I’m ready!”, followed effortlesly seductive and in charge of her destiny. at its peak, it’s only fi tting to have three  The fragrance opens with rich, juicy, sweet plum, by actress and singer Fatin Afeefa, who blends with fresh rosy lychee, and counters the bitter #IndependentWomen, who started off as twirls out in a metallic jumpsuit. “I feel grapefruit. At its heart, the powdered heliotrope mingles with strangers, come together to explore their like a million bucks right now,” she laughs vanilla orchid, and contrasts with ultra-feminine jasmine. It taste for hedonism and celebrate each then evolves with creamy sandalwood, the balsamic warmth and collapses onto the bed with TV host of benzoin, and the roasted almond facets of tonka bean, other’s free, unadulterated spirit. Nadiyah Shahab, who is dressed in an all- resulting in a carnal velvet sensuality. As Jimmy Choo Fever’s arousing sequin ensemble. We run through the fi nal  The third addition to Jimmy Choo’s fragrance trail of roasted almond and rich black wardrobe, Fever celebrates playful energy and hairandmakehair and make-up uptouch touch-ups,-ups, but the girls magnetic allure, the same characteristics plum nectar fi ll the room, the girls own the aren’t ready justj t yet. A gentle spritz Kiran Jassal, Fatin Afeefa, and camera with an infectious energy, which had us oof Jimmy my Choo’s latest Fever Nadiyah Shahab all possess. grooving behind the scenes, too. And perhaps, it fragrance to bring out their is the spirit of these confi dent women and the aura of innate confi dent sensuality, and empowerment that captivated everyone in the room. Feeding we’re good to go. off the good vibes and the joie de vivre mirroringmirroring the “It’s so sultry and sweet at the same hypnotic Fever fragrance, Kiran, Fatin, andan Nadiyah time—makesime—makes me feel fl irty,” says Kiran, are transported to Jimmy Choo’s effeff ervescent beforefore starting a playful “spritz war” universe for the night. withh Fatin, dousing the room with fl oral It is, in fact, the women’s eff ortless coconfin dence gourmandg mand notes. “A real mood-changer.” and the anticipation of a heady eveningevening fi lled “I love how sexy this makes me feel with possible adventures that lead themthe to instantly,”ly,” says Nadiyah, as she removes the be in charge of their destiny—read destiny—readyy to Kiran Jassal signatureg e square cap from the plum lacquered take on whatever may come their way.way  bottle. “Itt makes me want to put on my hottest For the full BAZAAR ‘Are You Fever Ready?”Ready ” outfi t and spend the night with my best girls, digital campaign with Jimmy Choo, click ono paintingg the town red.” harpersbazaar.my Fatin Afeefa

120 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 BANYAN TREE KUALA LUMPUR PRESENTS

East-meets-West massage techniques will transport you to a state of bliss NIRVANA, UNLOCKED Leave the weight of the digital world by the door and slip into zen mode, in the heart of KL.

erenity is in season, and it’s calling out to the best of green tea bath soothes the mind, body, and soul, as you slip in to the us. Situated in the heart of the city centre, Banyan ultimate state of relaxation. Tree Kuala Lumpur is the perfect respite from the Another signature, the Royal Banyan, combines the best of bustling city. Exchange your power suit for a plush both worlds in one sensorial experience, with Eastern and Wester n white robe, and let go of your urban baggage at massage techniques at the helm of this 150-minute treatment. the Banyan Tree Spa. With four couple treatment The highlight? A warm herbal pouch dipped in sesame oil, plac ed rooms available at the spa and an extensive menu of on the body with adequate pressure, aids in improving blood traditional, fusion, and bespoke body treatments, expect a private circulation and easing muscle aches. For personalised head- to-toe Sexperience that promises peace of mind for the weary soul. pampering, BAZAAR loves the Master Therapist Experience, Utilising non-clinical and holistic approaches, Banyan Tree where your needs come first, completely customised and care fully Spa’s highly skilled therapists are well-versed in a tender touch that curated, using a restorative combination of massage techniqu es and is based on traditional Asian healing techniques. Combining the innovative tools. use of aromatic oils, herbs, and spices, the spa’s unique signatures will also help you regain harmonious balance, inside and out. BLISSFUL EXTRAS Banyan Tree Spa’s all-encompassing services don’t end there. DREAM TREATS Thinking about an uber-luxe facial that’s fit for a queen? The For a traditional take, consider the Sense of Place – Malaysian Premium Caviar Treat, an indulgent facial, aims to smooth away Bliss retreat. Featuring a refreshing body scrub and a signa ture fine lines using 100 percent caviar and pearl extracts, and also Nusantara massage that combines kneading techniques and thu mb restores vitality by increasing skin oxygen levels. End the spa day pressure to relieve tension, Sense of Place – Malaysian Bliss is with a body polish, and leave feeling wrapped in pure relaxation. perfect for those who spend too much time hunched over their Step into the transquil environs of Banyan Tree Spa, and lose laptops or phones—we’re all guilty. Then, let the luxurious g oat yourself at this rare relaxing escape in the bustling city. Whether milk face mask restore youthful glow to the skin, followed by a scalp you choose to stay the night in Banyan Tree Kuala Lumpur or massage. Finally, for the perfect finishing touch, a calming Jasmine return home, a state of pure bliss awaits.

Banyan Tree Kuala Lumpur, 2 Jalan Conlay, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-2113 1888. www.banyantree.com THE GREAT BEAUTY tings ... a, Feathers, silks, fur ﬂowers, and motifs inspired by František Kupka pain Czech model Hana Soukupová walks through Palazzo della Civiltà Italianer ’18. dressed in breathtaking pieces from Fendi Haute Couture Autumn/Wint Photographed by Matúš Tóth. Styled by Maria Vedral Kohútik. Dress, Fendi Haute Couture. Dress; and coat, both from Fendi Haute Couture.

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Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi create a

o stay on the pulse takes deep intuition layers to bring that mermaid shimmer to new kind of magic with their haute couture collection for Fendi. By Natasha K and incredible daring. When Fendi these dream dresses. What was astounding debuted its haute fourrure collection was in how the most noble of fabrics were in 2015 at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées crafted into the most precious materials ... with a dramatic, almost black-and- and then you wonder: where exactly is the fur? white oeuvre of glossy minks, chinchilla Before you think of Lagerfeld as veering blooms, sable stoles, and gold feathers, on political correctness, this was not his only it was an elevation of the art, which at motivation. Of course he had a field day in that point had devolved into modernistic challenging perception of what luxury is with T statements of sporty fabrics and flashy this beautiful guessing game, and one wonders sneakers. Fendi’s long-awaited couture debut—at a very personal if the price changes if it were actual fur or the time, on the 50th anniversary of Karl Lagerfeld’s tenure at the technical simulacra. As to the question of fur, Roman house—certainly brought back the golden era of couture. Fendi’s roots as an artisanal furrier since 1925 The next show, coincidentally for the 90th anniversary of remain deep, challenging the status quo but Fendi, at the newly restored Trevi Fountain, no less, took it a notch presenting Lagerfeld’s more interesting proposition. higher with a fairy-tale collection of fantasy dresses and storybook Off to work he went, taking the hallmarks of its pages, brought alive in all shades and textures of the finest fur, as fur atelier—the finest, most sustainably sourced fox, the models “walked on water”. How does one top off the epitome lynx, ermine, mink, and sable—and juxtaposing of extravagance? these with new fabric treatments to showcase true You don’t. Never one to look back, and always future- savoir faire and couture detailing. A Grace Kelly- forward, Lagerfeld turned everything on its head with Fendi era dress coat featured boxy panels of violet mink Haute Couture Autumn/Winter ’18—the renaming already alternated with fine latticework in a beautiful play of indicative of the recalibration. volume and silhouette. Latticework featured strongly What a privilege to have upfront access to the surface value in this collection, as sexy cage-like detailing and for a of every creation, each as individual as they came with the corset effect on the black looks. On the ballerina-like opening ’60s-styled mink coat of vibrant Orphist strokes, pastel dresses, they were fashioned after antique porcelain citing Czech artist František Kupka’s graphic art and colour plates with their delicate retro flowers, brought to creation palette, with painterly FFs deliquescing into the landscape, as bijoux floral applique and whispers of embroidery, all into a skirt suit of graphic strips of bright fur. A few more swishing sweetly to every move. Mink petals flirted with a collage-fur masterpieces punctuated by a vermillion dress patent black collar, chunky tassels swayed about sheer tulle, with a tan fur stole, and then into a sumptuous narrative of and feathers danced about a bonded plastic skirt. what Lagerfeld really wanted to show: beauty, philosophy, Plastic? You read that right. In the discourse of politics, technique, and technology, all fashioned up in an ‘What’s Luxury Now?’ Lagerfeld threw in the synthetic array of shimmering pastel dresses of fitted bodices and material, crafted with a sumptuous finish, of course, to sweeping skirts. On the surface they looked like classic confront perception and again be part of the conversation couture, but only up close at the re-see the next day, could on conservation. This statement was taken beyond by Silvia raal. I understand the actual ideas, each as innovative as the Venturini Fendi, who reimagined couture accessories, and maestro’s mind. turned ideas inside out with 15 fantastical minaudières crafted At first, the message of changing fourrure for couture with thermoplastic resin that layer after glossy layer using seemed like a conscientious approach towards animal ultrasound and frequency technology mimicked the luxurious rights and fashion’s major movement away from fur; materials of marble, malachite, and mother-of-pearl—inside after all, if there’s anyone who breathes in the zeitgeist, lined in buttery soft nappa leather—and festooned with hand-cut it has to be Lagerfeld. Fabrics were technologically stones, gems, and crystals. One design into completely different manipulated to appear like fur: plush velvet styles, some deco romantic, other modern graphic but all utterly mimicking fine astrakhan; marabou feathers made desirable objets d’art that also make philosophical statements. of shredded silk organza; frayed chiffon stitched Naturally, the shoes had to mirror the minaudières, in patent tightly to resemble intarsia mink. A Hitchcockian- leather imaginings—comfort is still key!—with a retro square toe style skirt suit with a shearling-like appearance was and abstract block heels carved out of maple, Perspex, and horn. actually made of densely sewn micro sequins that Part-sci-fi, part-Stepford wife, together they brought a frisson of gave it a chiaroscuro effect; so sensually tactile as curio-futurism, a rhetorical contrast to the delicate dresses. Degas I glided my hand up and down the surface while ballerina to Wonder Woman, never estranging, but altogether, the Boomerang-ing the effect. neoclassical themes and progressive textures fused in their decorative There was an effervescent lightness to glories, with a sensorial delight and intellectual buzz only a maestro almost everything, some looks accentuated by could create. Celestial couture, we call it, because Fendi has brought it a sequinned body stocking beneath the sheer higher than haute. g

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 125 uilt at the end of the ’30s, Palazzo della didn’t have one myself and it would have Civiltà Italiana emerges from the Roman been very useful. Then, I had no idea how skyline as a modern Colosseum, intended modelling worked, what was important, to be one of the most emblematic and what made sense. buildings in Italy. However, historical You are from the Czech Republic, your circumstances had other plans, and husband is American, and for last three the six-storey travertine palace was left years, you’ve been residing in Mallorca. empty up until three years ago when, Where do you feel most at home? Bafter decades of dilapidation, Italian Mallorca, for sure. We lived in New York for 14 fashion house Fendi decided to breathe years, and recently, we returned there for three new life into the iconic building. Today, the beautifully renovated weeks. In the beginning, we were excited that Palazzo is home to Fendi’s new headquarters. we could enjoy the American lifestyle again, but It is here, in Karl Lagerfeld’s office on the sixth floor, that after five days we realised it wasn’t for us anymore. the first sketches of the current Fendi Haute Couture Autumn/ Why is that? Winter collection were drawn. The collection combines only the There is a sense of divine peace in Mallorca. Of most luxurious of materials such as mink and fox fur, marabou course, we had to get used to it initially. Life in our feathers, and the softest cashmere with motifs from František small town is very calm. It’s absolutely gorgeous for Kupka paintings. The Czech painter’s art—one of the main kids, though. inspirations, elegantly shapes the collection of dresses and suits Does Mallorca bring any advantages to your by way of colourful feathers and frayed organza. modelling work? On this hot, sunny afternoon in Rome, not only I have worked in the States for a long time and I enjoy am I experiencing the Kupka-inspired collection in returning to Europe. The business is a bit different here Fendi’s beautiful palazzo, I’m also in the presence of the and I can work with new clients. The biggest advantage effervescent Hana Soukupová, who’s arrived straight from is the close distance. I can fly anywhere around Europe Mallorca where she currently resides with her family. Amid in just a few hours. It also makes it easier to visit my dressing her up in beautifully crafted couture robes, we family in the Czech Republic. talk to the Czech model about her career, children, and How do you handle being separated from your children the paradise she calls home. while travelling? This shoot for Fendi is my first without the kids. Before, we What was it like on the set of your first photoshoot? always tried to turn every work travel into a family trip. In The first photographer I worked with was Robert Vano. the end, we found that it was harder for me than for the kids. It was my first photo test experience, and he was very How did childbirth change you? kind and patient, explaining everything I was supposed Children have taught me patience. They’ve opened up a to do. His great approach helped me decide to focus brand-new world to me and I can’t imagine going back now. fully on modelling. I wouldn’t have done it if I had a My life is definitely much happier. We laugh together every day. bad first experience with someone else. They are my buddies. You have a little daughter now. Is modelling in the Has your approach to work changed? cards for her? I’m thinking about my priorities more, and choosing what and I would support her if that’s her choice. My parents how to invest my time. Before I had kids, I loved to travel. When were also helpful and open-minded. When they an offer came, I went for it. Now, I have to plan and organise found out I wanted to model, they didn’t try to more, both for myself and my children. change my mind, even though I was very young at Your son is already going to school. Does he fully understand that point. I was only 14. his mum’s job? What advice would you give her? I’m not sure if he does. He sees me in magazines but doesn’t know I would explain how the business works; who why I am there. Sometimes, we see a poster with a blonde model on to work with and how to find the right agency. the street and he would ask if that is me, and I have to explain to him This is interesting, I could be her mentor. I that not all ladies on posters are his mum. g

126 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Dress; and shoes, both from Fendi Haute Couture. Dress, Fendi Haute Couture. Dress; and shoes, both from Fendi Haute Couture.

Text: Veronika Miškovská Translation: Veronika Ruppert Hair: Martin Tyl/New You using Sachajuan Make-up: Ivanka Tokárska/Sensai Model: Hana Soukupová/ My Model Agency Photography assistant: Šimon Gut Production: Patrik Bureš SILVER BELLE The spirit of Adele Astaire, Fred’s brilliant, vivacious sister, and her life as the chatelaine of Lismore Castle in Ireland, imbues the season with a frisson of 1930s glamour.

Photographed by Erik Madigan Heck. Styled by Leith Clark. ROM A NTIC VISION Lace dress, Chanel. Leather gloves, Ines. TAMED HEART Embroidered wool and silk dress, Michael Kors Collection. FALL INTO GRACE Mohair and satin coat; and satin jumpsuit, both from Bottega Veneta. Palladium hair clip, Hermès. QUIET CARESS Embellished mesh dress; and crystal headpiece, both from Gucci. GLITTER BUG Fringed dress; and gold and pearl earrings, both from Givenchy.

Hair: Alain Pichon/ CLM Hair & Make-up using Hair Rituel by Sisley Make-up: Andrew Gallimore/ CLM Hair & Make-up for Nars Cosmetics Model: Sara Blomqvist/ Viva London Styling assistants: Amy Ryall; Tilly Wheating B E E T L E MANIA

Designers are turning artist and photographer to the insect world for Christopher Marley— jewel inspiration, and whose exhibition it’s easy to see why: ‘Biophilia’ opens in Colourful and February at the iridescent, these Houston Museum extraordinary of Natural creatures possess Science—to a striking, showcase our otherworldly favourite statement breed of pieces from an beauty. We entomologist’s point enlisted insect of view.

136 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 BUGGING OUT Brooch, Gucci. OPPOSITE PAGE: Earrings, Cartier.

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 137 BUTTER FLY EFFECT Clips, Van Cleep & Arpels.

138 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 DO THE JITTERBUG. Ring, Bvlgari.

Fashion editor: Jennifer Csengody-Novetsky Photography: Don Penny

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C O U T U R E ROYALE BAZAAR gets the exclusive on iconic Malaysian designer Dato’ Rizalman Ibrahim’s dazzling modern mansion, where Moroccan ﬂ air meets Belle Époque glamour. By Emmilyn Yeoh. Photographed by Soon Lau.

140 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Dato’ Rizalman Ibrahim and model Elena Cheurina, wearing his creation for Swarovski’s ‘Sparkling Couture: Inﬁ nity’ exhibition in 2017

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Hand-painted De Gournay- inspired wallpaper in the master bedroom

Songbird serenade in the hallway that leads to the château-like residence

t’s 7.30am on a Monday morning, and I find myself Just as “La Mer” hits the bridge, I get my answer as the double wandering through a beautiful château hallway, doors to his bedroom slide open, and Rizalman struts out in a white discovering the grandeur of this space that absolutely T-shirt, tailored pants, embellished socks, and a sweeping black takes my breath away. Surrounded by vintage Louis cloak, fit for a villain. It’s show time. XVI-style wall appliqués, classic Belle Époque chandeliers, and 15th-century Ming dynasty vases STATELY PLEASURES that are as delicate as they are decorative, a mood is set. “I took the grand history of a 17th-century château and scaled it IIn the background, an instrumental version of Charles down to a livable 21st-century space,” Rizalman begins, as we move Trenet’s “La Mer” is playing, an exquisite brew of Earl from his crimson Jaipur-esque study—inspired by a stay at The Grey is pouring from a fine china teapot—tea first, milk second. Suján Rajmahal Palace—to his rustic and charming French kitchen. Then, this perfect French idealism takes a turn, as triangles of nasi Getting into character is nothing new for this flamboyant designer. lemak are served from a silver platter. A house more than eight years in the making, Rizalman is someone This is decorated Malaysian fashion who believes in, “If you aren’t going designer Dato’ Rizalman Ibrahim’s all the way, why go at all?” His bold Elena wearing one of interpretation of “Parisian living”—a Rizalman’s creations journey as an antique collector began laissez-faire attitude enhanced with from him rummaging through Porte Malaysian humour. It should be de Clignancourt markets in Paris noted that this would be my first time and other historically rich European meeting Rizalman #IRL. It’s also fair cities such as Florence, to braving the to say that I’ve had a glimpse of his bustling souks of Morocco and lively personality through episodes of his Indian bazaars. “When I look at these reality TV series on Life Inspired, and pieces, I imagine the spirit of these have spent many an hour ploughing artisans, in a time when technology through pages of Google searches, did not exist, and inspiration hoping for a recent update on his was as simple as looking at your private life. Can I really say that I am surroundings,” he muses. surprised by this glamorous, over-the- His passion speaks volumes of top setting? I allow my mind to sneak the decadent and curated neoclassical in a small thought, “Are these little space that we’re in right now. We theatrics a prelude to today’s photo turn a corner, and spot a taxidermied shoot, in which the iconic designer peacock perched on top of a wooden takes centre stage? Or could this be ... ladder, and insist he strokes it as if an actual day in Rizalman’s life?” it were still alive, for a quick video

142 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 montage—he obliges. Is there anything this man won’t do? “I refuse to meet people nowadays. It’s the way I detox,” he says, completely aware of how laughable this statement is, given a man of his stature. “Sometimes, I just lock myself in my bedroom, so that unwanted images don’t cloud my mind. With this house now, I can come home from work and pretend that it’s Paris.”

How to be a monsieur: suit, top MON PAR IS hat, walking cane, and an attitude And we could have been in the beautiful City of Love, save for the stifling humidity and glaring blaze of the sweltering sunlight. But I, for one, am very comfortable in a vintage Rococo velvet chair, set against Baroque wallpaper in the hallway leading to the living room. On my right, a pair of lavish chandeliers glisten in the daylight, while gilded mirrors sit above marble fireplaces, giving the illusion of a wider, bigger space. Upstairs, bedrooms are decked in neutral shades of cream and grey, featuring metal The designer with his spotlight lamps, mahogany floors, and 6-year-old son Aali Nail clean lines that exude effortless Tom Ford sophistication. We’re talking about a madcap genius who has no qualms about placing a 1970s brass glass table by an 18th- century armoire. “I wanted to

Walk-in wardrobe of the gentleman with class

“I love having photos of my childhood around because they remind me of how far I’ve come.” – Rizalman Ibrahim

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The ﬂamboyant essence of Jaipur brought to life in Rizalman’s crimson shade study

create a home that wouldn’t demand a redecoration project for a MAKING THE DREAM really, really long time,” he explains, when asked about his decision Rizalman’s venture into the ever-evolving world of fashion began to combine Belle Époque glamour with contemporary flair. “My after he received a rejection letter to study architecture, which personality is obsessed with French culture and design. It took a lot eventually led him to major in fashion design. “I draw similarities of work, money, and research to locate special pieces from different between interior design and fashion design. The medium varies, centuries. I can live this way forever and ever.” but the idea is about forming your own aesthetic with different He fashions himself after the French—an air of arrogance upon colours and textures,” he muses. Perhaps, you could call this fate. Or first impression, yet the flinty ice queen façade melts away quite perhaps, talent. But after hustling to establish his brand in the past easily. “You have to open the window and discover what’s beyond”— two and a half decades, he took the plunge into the world of interior his advice, on exploring the city of Paris and the other aspects of design, and has never looked back since. “I think this is my second life. “I know it sounds extremely cliché to people, but the French chance at life. I see things very differently. I manage every project are the epitome of perfection. I love going to marchés and watch straight from the heart, and I immerse myself as the owner of the the way they carry their baskets and buy their boulangerie,” he says. space,” he explains. “It’s about being a bit more daring and artistic. Rizalman gets increasingly animated as we zoom in on the smaller Be a legend or be forgotten.” details of his favourite country in the world, talking department It’s this quest for perfection that has cemented his standing store windows and antique shops. as the couture king of Malaysia, but it’s also the freedom of My next question—“If you could live life as someone else, who expression as a couturier that has kept him going. He sees it as a very would you want to be?”—stops him in his tracks. “I was thinking intimate relationship between the mind and the soul. “Couture is perhaps an aristocrat or a noble ...” he trails off, before saying, “Come a conversation of dreams,” he says. “Being a designer means being to think of it, I would love to be a butler and work in a noble’s house; able to dictate, and going the extra mile to create beautiful things.” spend my days folding napkins, shining silver, colour coding plates, There’s something about Rizalman that I can’t quite place; the and managing a household. That’s the dream,” he enthuses. way he carries himself, how he commands presence in every room, or

144 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Bold diamond tiles and exquisite marble walls in the bathroom

Belle Époque chandeliers, even the way he never smiles for more than personalised napkins, and silver polished to perfection two seconds. As a journalist, I’m drawn to the psychological enigma of this man. We end our interview with an unmasking of the real Rizalman, when the conversation starts veering towards him being a family man. His two beautiful sons, Umar and Aali Nail, he claims, are the peacekeepers of his imbalanced, creative mind. “I know I can never get married but by having children and starting a family, I feel like I can be a little bit normal ... just like the story of the villain Maleficent,” he says. “One day this house could be a museum, and people can see how Rizalman Ibrahim has lived,” he continues. “It’s to immortalise my legacy and understand the choreography of this place.” As a special treat, Rizalman whips out his iPad to show us the latest Rizalman for Zalora 2019 collection, also shot in this masterpiece mansion, that had us clutching our hearts—and wallets. Shortly after, we say our farewells and I mentally prepare to return home to reality, where chandeliers don’t exist in my bathroom and chaise lounges are simply called “sofas”. As I walk out the Victorian front door, I could have sworn I caught a glimpse of the designer, au revoir HAIR: CKAY LIOW; MAKE-UP: SHIYO JOO; STUDIOS DIN/AWESOME ASSISTANT: PHOTOGRAPHY amused at my joke and breaking into a laugh ... , Paris! g

Tom Ford chic in the guest bedroom

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Go down the rabbit hole and discover an innovative world of Michelin- starred cuisine, where the experience of taste, creativity, and passion speaks to the soul. Edited by Emmilyn Yeoh.

The impressive ceiling of copper pots and pans at Cinco by Paco Pérez in the Das Stue hotel

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FIVE-STAR SENSES Natasha Kraal embarks on a culinary journey through the Mediterranean, in the heart of Berlin.

CINCO BY PACO PÉREZ

In the veritable melting pot that is Berlin, cuisine really is the culture. Armed with @berlinfoodstories and Google Maps, we had the best currywurst (Curry 36), döner kebab (Imren, “the döner kebab unicorn”), and gelato (Rosa Canina’s Raspberry with Basil) we could say “in the world”. After perusing the Top 10 of street food, we were ready for some serious dining. Of course, in this anomalous German city, you’d have the best Spanish food in the former Royal Danish embassy, now the fabulous designer hotel Das Stue, of uber-cool Patricia Urquiola interiors and animal-themed accoutrements, inspired by its Catalan chef neighbour, the famous Berlin Zoo. So diversely melting pot that the feature Paco Pérez décor at Cinco by Paco Pérez is a magnifi cent ceiling of just that ... Catalan chef Paco Pérez named his gorgeous German outpost after his fi fth Michelin star, combined with his two-Michelin-starred family-owned seaside restaurant Miramar that dates back to 1939, at Llanca off the coast of Girona, and the two-Michelin-starred Enoteca at Hotel Arts Barcelona. Cinco Arroz meloso with got the trademark star of approval for its progressive Mediterranean cuisine in truffl e, mushrooms, November 2013. “It belongs to all of us,” he says humbly of his success, citing and San Simon cheese his team, “my family”, whose passionate collaborations create his extraordinary cuisine of “beautiful things”. Pérez’s nine-course Gran Viaje, he says, “is a journey through the Mediterranean Sea” within another journey that is Berlin. “We wanted to show our point of view of the Mediterranean in displacementdisplacement to BerBerlin,l and concretely to the Das Stue hotel,” he defi nes. We opened this adventadventureu with molecular-inspired snacks that ranged from hydrogenated hydrogenated vegeta vegetarianria sandwiches to a liquidated Caesar salad, and fresh razorrazor clams versus hot ffriedried octopus, each abstracted from the track of traditional tapas. Within the unconventional textures and Catalan play of colour-and-light, was a sea of deliciousness: marinated tuna in roasted juice freshened up with neon balls of salmon roe; peas prepared three ways as a twist on the classic; sweetly pungent calamari tartar and truffl e shavings fl oating about a consommé of button mushrooms. Fans of the ubiquitous uni pasta would behold Pérez’s nouvelle sea cucumber carbonara, dramatically illuminated with bright egg yolk from a Miró canvas, which altogether fumed with umami-ness. My favourite? e sweetest red carabinero prawns served on a bed of creamy arroz meloso. e wines were inspired accompaniments, where sommelier Janine Woltaire captured the story of each composition, from our favourite, the Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling 2010, a lively bouquet with the marinated tuna, to the complex Envinate T. Amarela Parcela Valdemedel that was served with exquisite pigeon and mole. “I always look for elegant, pure wines,” says Woltaire, who regaled Slick tiles and dark each pairing with its story. “Often, they show a Mediterranean side with a salty, woods make up the restaurant's mineral fi nish, to represent Paco’s cuisine and his connection to the sea.” contemporary interior Every dish roused our curiosity and awakened our senses, and yet were not so avant-garde that we had to “encounter” rather than enjoy them. ere was acuity in technique and art in the plating, but always with underlying clean tastes, and a dash of familiarity. Comfort dessert was composed with whimsy. A slice of the best brie in a hydrogenated sandwich. Red fruits, some fresh, some dehydrated sheets, with smoked sheep milk ice cream. “We always play with our imagination, like a child, and translate that into a dish. But we think when we cook,” says Pérez. is “grand journey” could only come from the imagination and intelligence, right through the heart, with the artist’s spirit. Cinco by Paco Pérez, Drakestraße 1, Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 30 311 7220. www.das-stue.com

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What does modernity mean to you? Tradition is very important and French cuisine techniques are my basics; I learned it from home, through my apprenticeship, and during my travels. Modernity is taking the tastes from here and there, while being in focus with the new generation. Chefs should always be ready. Tell us more about Harmonie, the seasonal menu you change six times a year. The idea came as we reopened Pavillon Chef Laurent in 2009, after the complete renovation PERFECT Eperon with Natasha Kraal of Baur au Lac. We wanted to create something new, and came up with the HARMONIE Harmonie menu as a seasonal pairing of wine and food. We make a Black Laurent Eperon, Michelin-star chef de cuisine the country. In the country, they still Edition from January to February, at Pavillon in Baur au Lac, talks about use a lot of pesticides. It’s becoming using only black truffles. For spring a big problem now in Europe with and summer, we use seafood and redeﬁning the classics, organic sourcing, and the farmers and honey producers. vegetables. I love vegetables, and our making his own honey. By Natasha Kraal. And it’s really important for us to guests do, too. support the movement and take care How about your choice of highlighting Swiss produce of the world for the future generation. and wines? I had the Swiss veal because that is your specialty. This is luxury for the future, to stay in the region, to stay local. Oh yes, the Swiss veal, Zurich-style. It truly is a delicious recipe. From At Pavillon, we get our organic vegetables and local meat from its original recipe 20 years ago, we’ve since added an extra ingredient: France and Switzerland. We no longer use American meat— kidney. In the Swiss kitchen, there are two kinds of ways of cooking our guests have gotten quite sensitive to this new luxury. it. The farmers’ style is made entirely with vegetables and bouillon. It takes forward the idea of working in collaboration with For the Zurich style, we use a lot of cream. your local farmers. You’re able to control the quality and be What is your signature cooking style? more supportive of the local community. I’d say freshness. I keep the season and the new trends in mind, but Exactly, and we also create stories for our guests, on the gardener I love that my dishes are very personal to me. As a child, I used to or farmers behind the dishes we go to Lausanne to my grandmother’s, and we would have oeufs à make. Right in front the hotel is la coque—the six-minute egg—with mollet, a piece of bread. You our beehive in our little herb garden. cut the centre, put in the eggs, and eat it with salt and butter. About 80,000 bees work for us, and That inspired A Sunday Evening at My Grandmother’s on the we produce only a limited amount of Harmonie menu, but of course I added caviar. miel de jardin. Eating is so sensorial, emotional, and visual. How do you It’s incredible to produce honey right give your well-travelled guests something they’ve never in the middle of the city. been exposed to? The honey produced in the city is actually It is challenging. I think Switzerland has the most Michelin higher in quality than those produced in star restaurants in the world, in comparison to the area size. Veau Suisse For me to receive the Michelin star, it was like winning the Seasonal produce accentuate the classics gold medal in the Olympics. I am happy but I don’t want to ever change. Modesty is very important for me. Chefs are known for their temperament. How are you in the kitchen? This is an insider. If my team does or makes something I don’t like, I make them do push-ups. But now, my team does push-ups just for the motivation. But, you know, in the kitchen, sometimes it’s hard. I don’t make them cry, but I’m a perfectionist, so they just know to do well. They know it’s not a time to joke around. But we’re also sometimes a little crazy, it’s all adrenaline. Pavillon, Baur au Lac, Talstrasse 1, Zürich, Switzerland. Tel: +41 44 220 50 22. www.bauraulac.ch/en

148 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 “I work with French products and The unassuming façade of their purveyors, especially vegetables the sophisticated Restaurant and herbs, to support and sustain our David Toutain in Paris traditions.” – David Toutain Natasha Kraal goes from David Toutain’s progressive earthy cuisine to Jason Atherton’s epic Dickensian feast.

Kitchen tour with Chef David Toutain RESTAURANT DAVID TOUTAIN

“Tous les goûts sont dans la nature”—all tastes are in nature—set the tone for our mid-winter experience at Restaurant David Toutain. The dynamic chef was in situ at his 22-seater on the Left Bank, which he opened at the end of 2013, and by 2015 received his first Michelin star. New French is his style, but being a self-proclaimed “son of the earth” leans his inclination towards the textures and flavours of nature, inspired by his childhood in Normandy. “I created my restaurant to be a place of sharing,” says Toutain. “I wanted to recover the conviviality of my childhood, with my family during meals. This place is as genuine and harmonious as possible.” We started with stylistic digressions of salsify on smoked wood served with a white chocolate dip and lime-squeezed carabinero tartare on crackers. Then came Toutain’s famous egg: rich yolk deepening into corn cream and squiggled with cumin caramel. “You can prepare the egg in many ways, it talks to everyone,” he says of his Courgette, razor clam, and spelt signature that warmed us up with the buttery brioche “eggs” served in a nest. Our favourite, smoked eel on black sesame cream, was deliciously unusual, especially with the surprise green apple. “It is a combination of texture, flavour, and temperature that is precise to keep the black sesame cream’s particular texture,” he shares. “My cuisine is very technical but I have tried to erase most of these aspects to make it legible.” Textures came out to play in his celery and chestnut white truffle risotto, topped with puffed spelt, and the star dish of seared duck, juniper gnocchi, and a single fresh nasturtium leaf. Twelve dishes later, we were so ready for dessert. The cauliflower with white chocolate and coconut opened the four-course dessert menu, and into my highlight, a medley of citrus fruits in different textures— creamed tangerine, poached orange slice, lemon sponge, orange purée—with coriander granite. Parsnip wood And what’s dinner in Paris without an incredible chocolate truffle, followed by finely sliced Comté? salsify with white Not entirely classic, in the hands of a chef who loves the discovery of new tastes. “I would like to chocolate dip offer a real experience where all the senses will be awakened,” he says.Restaurant David Toutain, 29 Rue Surcouf, Paris, France. Tel: +33 01 45 50 11 10. www.davidtoutain.com

Neo-Victorian glam in Berners Tavern BERNERS TAVERN

Housed at the super chic London Edition hotel, Berners Tavern, an understatedly self-described “modern British restaurant” opened its massive bronze doors in 2013 for those with a “Rock Me Amadeus” appetite, or for the experience. Roasted Cornish cod with Out came the champagne cart—Ruinart, please, and a 2009 fennel and kohlrabi salad Dom Pérignon Brut for the birthday boy—while we perused the menu that didn’t fall short of every deadly sin. We’re talking creamy carbs, yolky sauces, infused butters, crispy bits on just about everything. I started with the Aged Buccleuch Estate Beef Tartare served with a runny egg yolk jam, a meaty prelude cut down with the pickles. Produce are proudly British, taken ﬁve rich notches up, Atherton-style, balanced with fresh zest. For mains, the Buccleuch Estate chateaubriand for two was in for the win; the smoked bone marrow butter sold it. This came with sides of dreams: crispy, oozy mac and cheese and the fattest triple fried chips. Was there even room for dessert? Why not, the “Flaming” Alaska of raspberry and yoghurt, with pistachio shortbread crumble, and a birthday candle, as the perfect excuse to indulge. Berners Tavern, 10 Berners Street, London, UK. Tel: +44 20 7908 7979. www.bernerstavern.com

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 149 The Fashionable LIFE B E T W E E N T H E S T A R S Malaysia’s top chefs and gourmet bon vivants divulge their produce-driven experiences, from Sydney to Modena and Tokyo. Open kitchen where the magic happens NOMA 2.0 ... “Out of all the restaurants that I’ve Berries and fava beans bathing been, Noma’s sheer creative in a white currant broth genius stands out the most. It’s not just the food but the Daniel Puskas overall dining experience, without any egoistic attitude or pretentiousness of similar SIXPENNY establishments. Their passion really shines through their “Occupying a quiet residential area’s repurposed corner in food. Thoughtfulness and Sydney’s Stanmore, Sixpenny can easily be taken as just an consideration at its best.” intimate neighbourhood restaurant, but some of the biggest names of the industry make their visit here whenever they can. Chef and co-owner Daniel Puskas’s weapon and talent is the fact that he is immensely good at creating ﬂavours from local bush produce such as spanner crabs, local ducks, nuts, and native plants to produce dishes that are distinctively Australian without straying too far from being “modern” fare. Everytime I eat at Sixpenny, there’s always a fresh take on things, and it automatically becomes the best meal I’ve had yet. Every member at Sixpenny has a deﬁned role; some are good at handling protein, some are known for their seafood NOMA mastery, and some are terribly creative with plant-based ingredients. To me, everything Puskas touches turns to gold.” Ballina spanner – Jun Wong, chef de cuisine at Kikubari crab with salty clam butter Sixpenny, 83 Percival Rd, Stanmore, Sydney, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9572 6666. www.sixpenny.com.au

Architect Bjarke Ingels used Nordic materials as a Noma design highlight

HERE TO STAY ... “The celeriac shawarma (#ICan’tBelieveIt’sVegetables) and the accompanying gravy was begging to be mopped up with freshly baked sourdough. It deﬁnes comfort food, and it’s made with so much love. You’d think I am crazy but one can deﬁnitely pick up on the passion and energy from the kitchen.”

THE POWER OF ATTRACTION ... “Like a symphony, there are overtures, and there are climaxes that leave you wanting more. The meal at Noma left me with a melody of different emotions. It served as an altruistic reminder that pretty plates should not just Sixpenny’s low-key cool setting be an Instagram photo. It needs to make you smile with glee as you eat it. Satisfaction in a good meal is still the utmost priority. Too many chefs have lost sight of that.” TETSUYA’S – Benjamin Yong, restaurateur Noma, Refshalevej 96, Copenhagen, Denmark. “Without a doubt, Tetsuya’s is one of the all-time best restaurants in Sydney. Tel: +45 3296 3297. www.noma.dk Many chefs who are now head chefs at some of Sydney’s top restaurants, have at some point, worked at Tetsuya’s. Chef Tetsuya Wakuda himself is ever- Buildings are connected to glass-covered humble, always ready to give advice to young chefs like myself. The same could paths for guests to observe the changes in be said about his unpretentious cuisine, which flavours speak for themselves. weather and its surroundings My favourite, the signature confit of Petuna Ocean Trout, is farmed in Tasmania specially for Wakuda, while another ingredient-driven dish is the Tasmanian Pacific oysters with ginger dressing. The restaurant also has the exterior of a Japanese ryokan, with beautifully manicured gardens, housed on a Relais & Châteaux property. No ambient sound or music can be heard in the dining space—a conscious decision by Wakuda, as he believes it is not necessary. Talk about minimalism with style!” – Jun Wong, chef de cuisine at Kikubari Tetsuya’s, 529 Kent Street, Sydney, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9267 2900. www.tetsuyas.com Plump Pacific oysters dressed with ginger and rice wine

150 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Assembling the signature mosaic of Ratatouille

Parfait of fresh vegetables, The unpretentious topped with ethos of Central caviar and extends to its design gold leaf

CENTRAL TAK AZAWA HATS OFF ... “A meal at Central is a holistic journey through Peru’s biodiversity. The FUELING THE menu is structured around its landscape, from MYSTIQUE ... the deep sea, up to the Andes. Chef and owner “Chef Yoshiaki Takazawa recreates Virgilio Martínez’s philosophy for Central is the intimate ambience of a very admirable. He works with his scientist traditional Japanese tea ceremony sister, Malena Martínez, to look into ingredients at his fi ne-dining restaurant that in the Andes, the Amazon, and the sea.” seats just 10 guests. French- OUT OF THE BOX ... “Besides Japanese fusion creations are eating potatoes of every possible colour and served straight from the open breed, I also ate piranhas for the fi rst time— kitchen, and the 10-course tasting fl ash-fried and topped with an emulsion made menu, Enjoy Your Imagination, is all from an Amazonian tree bark, and served on Piranha skin about throwing out the rule book.” frozen piranha heads and teeth. It tastes like a served on frozen HERE TO STAY ... “The crossover of salmon and rainbow trout.” heads of piranhas signature Ratatouille is a vegetable THE BIGGER PICTURE ... terrine prepared in different ways, “I loved visiting the R&D room where they fi lter their own still water, and the kitchen where the attention-to-detail is to see where the magic happens. This is the defi nition of new-gen dining—celebrating seen and tasted in each morsel.” indigenous foods and taking it to the next level of modernity.” – Raymond Tham, LITTLE DETAILS ... executive head chef and co-founder of Skillet@163 and Beta KL “The friendship between Chef Central Restaurante, Avenue Pedro de Osma 301, Barranco, Lima, Peru. Tel: +51 1 2428515. Takazawa-san and his wife Akiko www.centralrestaurante.com.pe/en keeps every experience for us memorable. They are extremely Countr he ysid pped t dedicated to their art, their ranean S n t e ro he iter ol I I D Le d e ! m creativity, and in delivering a new e ps o M o n T experience every time—not O a r t something that we usually get at restaurants of similar calibre. They’ve kept a record of all the dishes we have ever had, and our favourites, so they can always serve us new creations, and that our favourite is always featured.” – Carmen Chua, CEO of One IFC Takazawa, 3 Chome-5-2 Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. Tel: +81 3 3505 5052. Massimo Bottura www.takazawa-y.co.jp

Takazawa intricately fuses Japanese and French ﬂ avours in his creations OSTERIA FRANCESCANA

NOT FOR THE WEAK ... “Finding a table at Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana was no simple feat. We didn’t think we’d manage to score a reservation knowing how hard it was to get in. A phone call from the restaurant changed everything—the next thing we know, we were on our way to Modena.” Osteria STARSTRUCK MOMENTS ... “Each dish was exquisitely created. The Francescana Suckling Pig Tender and Crunchy got my husband teary-eyed. It was hilarious because he had made a joke earlier about an Italian chef serving a Chinese dish. But after taking a bite, he was speechless. Massimo’s version is better than any that we’ve ever had!” TOP DELIGHTS ... “The menu has a very intriguing ring to it, but we really loved An Eel Swimming Up the Po River, a dish that refl ects the wealth of produce in the Emilia-Romagna region; Caesar Salad in Bloom, an unadorned halved lettuce head with parmesan crisps and pancetta between the leaves; Autumn In New York, a consommé so pure and packed with fl avour. The taste of truffl es and wild mushrooms that just linger ...” – Madeline Teh, owner of Glitters Nails and Waxing Salon Osteria Francescana, Via Stella, 22, Modena, Italy. Tel: +39 059 223912. www.osteriafrancescana.it

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Bo Bech’s Nordic-Italian Bo Bech mash-up, Lou Lou Baked white onion with tamari, ginger, lime, and sesame

Curious spirit and Danish chef Bo Bech takes on the life of Geist in his latest book, ‘In My Blood’.

What’s your secret to being personal? Passion. at’s why people love chefs, but also fear them. I had Paustian [Bo Bech’s Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen] for eight years, then I realised that everything was too white and clean. I started seeing that every gesture I made pushed away the human feel. e way I look at a restaurant, it is either feminine or masculine. e masculine mindset is, I’d go there because of a specifi c thing this place is unique for. e feminine mindset is, “Let’s go there because it’s cozy”. It’s never been possible to visit a restaurant that accommodates both, so I thought, why not make that understand. I used to have a love-hate relationship with attempt, so I can fi nd out if there really is a reason behind endives because it was so bitter. It was an ongoing battle that having these two mindsets, or if it was even possible. took years to perfect. en there’s this pillar called “journey”, Is that how Geist was born? a humbling phase where you travel to a place, and you meet e attempt was to create a cozy restaurant for the guys. I new people and discover new ideas. Your heart is open, and try to do the best type of food as you would at a gourmet in a way, you’re searching, but not really. You’re soaking up restaurant, but never tell your guests. I thought, “What if good energy. “Tribute” is when you celebrate beauty. I like you remove all the things you don’t pay for, but get anyway?” to take a product and say, “I’m going to celebrate language I understand that sometimes you get a little tired of through this. I’ll put it on a pedestal.” en, I say, “I food always having to have a thought. want somethingmething like a supporting actor for this What drives your food? Is it art, music,m dish.”” I want a provocation, but nothing or emotion? thatat doesn’t have a signifi cant reference. I look at it as telling a story. My foodfood ForFor example, I’ll dust hibiscus on it. is seasonal driven. Some people ere’s bitterness in the hibiscus, understand it, some don’t. Is it and I like this chromatic view of funny to eat strawberries in the playing with shady red colours. It’s winter? Is it funny to devour a heavy an homage to the Little Sun project chocolate cake in 45°C weather? by one of my favourite artists, e more you love something, the Olafur Eliasson. closer you are to understanding its You wrote, “ e truth is easier to defi nition. Geist probably defi nesnes rememberremember than the lie,” in your last “space” more accurately. e intentionintentio bookbook What Does Memory Taste Like?. Raw langoustine with HHow w does food tell the truth for you? is to make everything look industrial.industria In yuzu and hibiscus 2001, I lived in New Delhi, and I rememberrem YYou know ow when you visit someone in their going somewhere with my architect friends, and I apartment? You’re in their sanctuary, and you see said, “Oh, so they’re still fi xing the place,” and they said, who they really are. You observe their taste, and their likes “No, that’s the décor.” ey were making “new” look “old”. and dislikes. With certain people, you don’t even have to try e whole restaurant scene ... it has become fashionable to to tell the truth, you’re just being you. Some people tend to be unpretentious, to be sloppy, but there’s a fi ne line. look at my food, and say things like “minimalistic”, “simple”, What do the fi ve pillars in your new book, In My Blood, etc. e reality is, it’s boiled down to the essence of what I mean to you personally? actually want to tell. It’s ripped apart from all the bullsh*t, of In My Blood was written and created the same way I would the insecurities. If you change that game constantly, you’re do a menu—starting out with a feeling that eventually leads choosing to only have one focus—being very clear in your to a dish. When I think about food, I have diff erent pillars. expression. at’s exactly what I try to do with my food. Bo Bech’s latest book, For example, “rage” is when I taste a product that I don’t www.chefbobech.com In My Blood

152 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Kenji Yamanaka

H O M E AND AWAY An inventive take on classic French fare.

BÉNI The story of Béni begins with the refi ned Chef’s Table Experience at the sushi counter-style dining room, and the jewel of teas from Kanagawa-based Royal Blue Tea, made to pair with stunning Japanese produce. Chef Kenji Yamanaka, who bagged his one Michelin star for Béni in 2016, and has kept it since, Challans duck talks about his ethos of making “every meal a blessing”, and transforming his affection for food into a personalised experience. We start off on this lunch journey with the cold-infused Real Honey Deluxe tea poured from a wine bottle—sweet on the nose, sensual on the palette, and enchanting like a glass of wine on a regular day. Breads were served in a rustic sack, with heated pebbles to keep the mini baguettes and seawood rolls warm. Slicks of Normandy butter and dustings of charcoal salt were also essential to the process. Yamanaka’s playful balance of Japanese ideas and French techniques are infused in his repertoire of dishes such as the tempura-battered Japanese bamboo bites with jamón ibérico and Comté cheese, as well as the fi refl y squid from Tamaya with broccoli puree and blood orange. His sensitivity with ingredients and how they are presented on the table is divine, seen and tasted in the Béni signature, an intriguing concoction of black truffl e, wild mushrooms, and cloud-like egg custard encased within a bespoke ceramic chawanmushi bowl from Arita in Japan. “Cooking is about the feeling—of true interaction, Foie gras and blood orange of joy—when you eat,” he says. Béni, #02-37, Mandarin Gallery, Singapore. Tel: +65 9159 3177. www.beni-sg.com

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“Cuisine is about emotion,” declares Olivier Pistre, executive chef of Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. “If it’s too complicated, we’ll be lost. In the end, you won’t remember any fl avour.” Featuring fi ve different menus tailored to the diner’s personal element of wood, fi re, earth, metal, or water, Lafi te’s latest pop-up molecular dining experience offers up delicate servings that respect authentic techniques. From a confi t tomato injected with lemon herb jus, served with Cadoret oyster and tomato tea on the side—water—to the sizzling scallop and foie gras placed strategically on a stone plate—fi re—Pistre’s Earthy setting to refl ect Tyson Gee curated dishes are visually appealing yet still pays tribute the spirit of Atas’s fare to the nuances of the ingredients. “I do respect how some chefs are creative—but for me, an ingredient is an ingredient. You can play around with the combination, but ATAS you shouldn’t change the texture, taste, or the fl avour.” Lafi te, Lobby Level, Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. Tyson Gee, executive chef of Atas at The RuMa Hotel and Residences, Tel: 03-2074 3900. www.shangri-la.com/kualalumpur shares his views on modern cuisine with Malaysian produce. What’s most exciting about Atas entering the local dining scene? Getting people to rethink food in Malaysia. I do not wish to deconstruct Malaysian food, but I want to showcase the produce and its vibrant fl avours. Assorted cocktails created The questions I ask myself are, “How did nasi lemak come about?”, “What from the fi ve elements was available then?”, and “How did they approach the ingredients to make them into a national dish?” Which unique Malaysian ingredients really speak to you? I fi nd the belimbing buluh fruit particularly interesting. Its crunchy texture and extremely tart fl avour are nice punches to a dish. At Atas, we wrap scallops and belimbing buluh inside blanched betel leaves. It’s a very simple way of showing people what Malaysia has. Give us the low-down. Tell us what is not-to-be-missed at Atas. I’ve taken the liberty to shine the spotlight on secondary cuts such as the hanger and oyster blade steaks. For the proteins, we are focused on using the Josper oven to bring out their natural and smokey fl avour. For the vegetables, I’ve taken a fun approach towards the caprese salad by using local tofu instead of cheese. The tofu that we use is a bit thicker and creamier, with an almost burrata-like taste. I drizzle it on an asam boi and calamansi salad, et voila! Atas, Mezzanine Level, The RuMa Hotel and Residences, is slated to open on November 30. Tel: 03-2778 0888. www.theruma.com

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 153 The Fashionable LIFE Rich browns and ivory furnishings at Jungsik New York

Eunji Lee Eunji Lee, pastry chef at Jungsik, reinvents Korean desserts with a French approach. By Emmilyn Yeoh. How did your seasonal fruits, ododyssey fromf Busan herbs, and fl owers. to Jungsik begin? From the diff erent pear I started from homee baking, varieties, I added a Korean touch and watching a show on the life of in the way of a traditional drink T a pastry chef to falling in love with the called Su Jung Gwa which is made with intricate art of pastry making in France. I ginger, cinnamon, and honey. So I tried tot E graduated from the prestigious Ferrandi Paris, bring that fl avour with pear on my dessert—adessert— E before making my way to Michelin-starred Ze nice autumn touch. Kitchen Galerie where I worked with chef William Which three ingredients are you currentlycu Ledeuil. I got to work under Cédric Grolet at Le experimenting with? W Meurice for four years after that, before coming to e fusion of savoury and sweet is always a good New York as a pastry chef at Jungsik. idea. Dwenjang—fermented soy bean paste—and SSSSSSS S Are the desserts at Jungsik your works of art? red pepper go well on my corn dessert, while soy sasauceuce MMyy dessert style is sweet and simple, and I take a very gives my sesame dessert a hint of umami. Cilantro oro visual approachproach to it. One of my signatures, Baby ai basil are also refreshing. Top three citrus frfruituits: Banana, is a trompe-l’œilompe-l’œilill presentation to a banana dessert calamansi, Buddha’s hand, and yuzu. with coff ee ice cream.. Guests can pick an Andy WarhoWarhol-l- Tell us more about the perfect ending of Jungsik’sJungsik esque banana from thehe basket, and be surprised. It’It’ss a dessert tasting menu. dessert made with bananaanana crémeuxx, DulceyD cream, and e Truffl e Ice Cream uses the truffl e in multiple ways,ways, Baileys cake, withh a white chocolate shell. and is sheer indulgence. Truffl e Chantilly is piped What is the storyry behind the dessert tasting menu? inside the cone, truffl es are incorporated in the iicece e dessertt tasting menu lets me showcase my cream, before fi nished off with fresh slices of truffltr e. abilities andd skills through several forms of pastrypastry.. I is concludes a fabulous, intelligent menumen that want peopleeople to see dessert as an equal, if not a ststar.ar. showcases uniqueness in both taste and display.d iss also allows us to cater to people with a sweet What makes a dessert memorable? tooth,ooth, and for us to interact with guests on a e fi rst impression—how visuallyvisually appealinga more personal level. it is. e taste comes secondary.secondary. e plating What’s cookingoking this season? and aesthetic are the “art”. AllA of these A pearr dessert. I was inspired by a components make the dessertdes a visitt to the farmers’ market in San superstar. Jungsik, 2 HarrisonHarri Items from Jungsik's dessert tasting menu Francisco’s Union Square, Street, New York, US. Tel: +1 where I got to taste 212 219 0900. www. and smell the jungsik.com

Petit Fours, OMIJA BINGSU FIG TART BABY BANANA NY-SEOUL PETIT FOURS served in the I played around with the I love seasonal fruits. Inspired by my My interpretation of the I use a Hang A Ri, a Korean traditional fundamentals of bingsu, For autumn, I’m making favourite Korean classic French dessert Paris- traditional claypot, to Hang A Ri taking shaved ice and turning a simple fi g tart with banana milk, I made a Brest, and it combines all present our little petit it into omija granite. I added the best fi gs from trompe-l’œil dessert that of my worlds—France, fours. They are a macaron, a French touch with the California. To balance looks like a real banana. Korea, and the US. The a bonbon (both fl avours rhubarb syrup, and used out the sweetness, For a touch of fun, we soul of Korean cuisine is change seasonally), and a lemon basil herbs for the I use pinot noir grape serve it on a real fruit told through the use of Yakgwa, a classic Korean sorbet, which is my twist sorbet and huckleberry basket and guests can brown rice. French choux sweet similar to a sable. on the condensed milk that jam, with fresh pick up their banana techniques are incorporated Before the guests leave, we is more commonly used for huckleberry for from the basket and put with New York fl air by give them a cookie bar to the traditional dessert. some acidity. it on their plate. adding pecans and caramel. take home with the menu.

154 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Strawberry tart

DESSERT CONFIDENTIAL Lemon BAZAAR’s grand ﬁ nisher, made meringue tart of the sweetest treats.

SUGAR HIGH Cheryl Koh, Asia’s Best Pastry Chef 2016 and pastry chef at Les Amis, on the lasting impressions of Michel Guérard. LATEST INSPIRATIONS ... I had the opportunity to dine at Michel Guérard’s fi ne-dining Restaurant Michel Guérard, which is at its 40th year with three Michelin stars. I got to experience his showcase of strong cooking techniques and fl avourful seasonal ingredients in classic French dishes, set amid fl owers, fruits, and greenery in his spa resort hotel, Les Prés d’Eugénie – Maison Guérard. THE BEST DESSERT ... The nectarine tart at La Ferme aux Grives in Cheryl Koh France. It is a combination of a well-made puff pastry and quality seasonal fruit plucked at its peak, to create a simple yet fl avourful dessert. www.michelguerard.com/en

GET FRESH SWEET READ Christina Tosi’s newest book takes Darren Chin’s latest Parisian-style bistro may be casual, but readers into her creative Milk Bar world the chef’s la jeune cuisine philosophy of fi rst mastering the in New York City. All her signatures: basics before aspiring for excellence still shines through. The decadent banana-chocolate-peanut star dessert, Seasonal Fruit, of poached fresh peaches with ice butter cake, melt-in-your-mouth cake cream and muesli crumble certainly lives up to its reputation. truffl es, and the American classic The peach wedges are fi rm and soft, offering hints of acidity, birthday cake are made in extraordinary giving way for the sweet Mara de Bois strawberry ice cream ways. Take a glimpse into her recipe and savoury Philly cheese ice cream. Buttery and crunchy obsessions, made for kitchen newbies muesli crumble sprinkles complete this beautiful symphony. and full-fl edged pros alike. Bref by Darren Chin, 26, Lorong Datuk Sulaiman 1, Taman Tun Dr www.milkbarstore.com Ismail, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-7731 5032. www.bref-kl.com

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“It started with a Google search: “How to get to Noto”. The next thing I know, we were Christina Tosi travelling from Lyon to Palermo, and driving to the other side of the island. The beauty of Sicily is widely spoken, but what we loved discovering was the unspoiled beaches around Noto. The star of Noto is of course, Caffè Sicilia, which serves amazing local breakfast, brioche, and granita. My top two picks were the lemon, as well as the cappuccino ghiacciato granita, while my husband was hooked on the almond granita. We went to Caffè Sicilia for three continuous days, to try different pastries, but the brioche and granite were our go-to morning staples. The ricotta cannoli was also to-die-for, rich with a hint of lemon ﬂ avour in the cream. No doubt Caffè Sicilia is an attraction in itself.” – Madeline Teh, owner of Glitters Nails and Waxing Salon Caffè Sicilia, Corso Vittorio Emanuele 125. Noto, Italy. Tel: +39 0931 835013

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BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY

This November, BAZAAR celebrates visual viscerality across mediums of art, cinema, and photography. By Emmilyn Yeoh.

A young Kate Moss in the early ’90s, taken by then-boyfriend Mario Sorrenti The contemporary icon Kate Moss bares her soul R AW SCREEN EMOTIONS QUEENS “I remember sitting next to Three powerful her and feeling like my heart was going to stop; her beauty female-driven films overwhelmed me,” Mario Sorrenti writes of his experience when he met Kate Moss during a modelling job in London in 1991. Kate is an intimate collection of 50 portraits of a young and dreamy Moss—happy in love, casual, and unguarded. In 1993, these photographs propelled both photographer and muse to stardom, marking a transformative moment in their careers when Calvin Klein used the images as the reference for its famous Obsession perfume campaign. This is, indeed, the magic of portraiture encapsulated in one fabulous edit. www.www.phaidon.comphaidon.com The Little Stranger, adapted from a Sarah Waters novel THE LITTLE STRANGER Ruth Wilson confronts childhood trauma in this haunting adaptation of Sarah Waters’s novel.

Saoirse Ronan plays Nina

One of the photos that inspired Calvin Klein’s 1993 campaign

Kate by Mario Sorrenti (Phaidon) THROUGH THE LENS OF ...

THE SEAGULL NADIRAH ZAKARIYA Anton Chekhov’s tale of The multicultural creative talks about her emotional obsession sees Golden Globe Award-winning Saoirse Ronan photographs and fascination with nostalgia. taking the central role. Nostalgia is a recurring theme in the ‘Kedai Describe your style and work process. What was your Air ikat tepi, the Runcit’ series ubiquitous takeaway I carry a sketchbook with me everywhere inspiration for your drink, made quirky because ideas can come out of the blue and I latest project with want to always be ready. The common thread between Tish and Airbnb? my works is my love for nostalgia. I usually photograph When Tish contacted women, driven by emotion, but for my latest series me about this with Airbnb, I wanted to challenge project, they wanted From Nadirah Zakariya’s myself to do something different artworks with a ‘Kedai Runcit’ series but still keep true to being myself. local touch. It was Why photography? meant to be hung When I was in art school, on the walls, I discovered my love for so I wanted to create Never-before-seen footage of photography, in which I was able something colourful and witty. I love chart-topping singer M.I.A. to express myself. Some of my the quirky colours of everyday products that we MATANGI/ MAYA/M.I.A. favourite photographers are can find at our local sundry shops and this was the A documentary following Sally Mann, Francesca Woodman, perfect opportunity for me to document them in the polemical pop star and Nan Goldin. my work. @nadirahzakariya from the slums of Sri Lanka to superstardom.

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American rock legends Interpol, set to perform in Southeast Asia for the first time ever

Domestic Tradition #2, 2012, Dodit Artawan A RT ’S DESIR E A celebration of contemporarycontemporary Malaysian y art, Gallery y Weekend Kuala Lumpur returnsreturn forf its third annual four-day celebration of artsa and culture. Featuring an impressiveimpressive list of f galleries and art initiatives such as G13 Gallery and The Edge Galerie, all programmes will showcase the rich heritage and new artistic impetuousness of the Southeast Asian region. The perfect time and place to

be inspired. From November Passage I, 2016, 29 to December 2 across Danielle Tay ECLECTIC more than 20 galleries and institutions in Kuala Lumpur. MAESTROS www.gw-kl.com After a hiatus last year, Neon Lights, one of the most anticipated events in HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Indonesian artist Dadang Christanto has always used his work as a tribute to victims of political violence and Southeast Asia’s music festival calendar, crimes against humanity. Christanto’s passion stems from his personal life—in 1965, the anti-communist purge is back this November—once again led to the deaths of millions of Indonesians and the disappearance of his own father, a communist sympathiser. featuring veteran musicans, highly ‘Missing’, his first solo exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, features graphic paintings of disembodied heads crying tears of blood, as well as a performance that reflects on the torturous acts that have incited grief and suffering. sought-after bands, and of-the-moment Repetition is key in Christanto’s practice, as shown in his 2015 installation ‘Slaughter Tunnel’, in which portraits indie darlings. Not to be missed: of anonymous faces lined the walls of a dingy tunnel to reference the fragility of human life. Until November 4 at American rock icons Interpol’s first- Wei-Ling Contemporary, RT01, Sixth Floor, The Gardens Mall. Tel: 03-2282 8323. www.weiling-gallery.com ever performance in Singapore and the region, ambient noir-pop band Cigarettes After Sex’s sultry love songs, Singaporean indie-pop duo Sobs’s beautifully vulnerable tunes, and so much more. From November 9 to 11 at Fort Gate, Fort Canning, Singapore. www.neonlights.sg From left to right: Four of the 110 pieces in the ‘Missing’ series Vibe to beautiful heartbreaking tunes by Sobs IO SORRENTI; Fountain pen in Sequin Blue, RM2,088, Graf von Faber-Castell for Bentley OPERATOR . PHOTOGRAPHY: MARIO SORRENTI; TS GH Why don’t you ... pen down your SOO

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158 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Provoke, 1965, Latiff Mohidin Pago Pago, 1969, Latiff Mohidin HOMECOMING KING ‘Pago Pago’, a visual dialogue by renowned Malaysian artist Latiff Mohidin, travels across Europe and Southeast Asia, and challenges the dominance of Western modernism in the 1960s. Emmilyn Yeoh speaks to the artist as the exhibition travels home from Paris.

ver a span of six decades, Latiff Mohidin, Malaysia’s Singapore two years ago. We went through more than 40 works, got most sought-after poet-painter has stood the test of in touch with private art collectors, looked at pieces that I’ve not seen time. In May 2013, his ‘Pago Pago’ series sold for since the ’60s, and collected stories behind the various works. O RM612,480 at Christie’s Asian 20th Century Art What inspired the rich imagery in the ‘Pago Pago’ series? auction, a record price that further sealed the When I was an art student in West Berlin, I visited Dahlem’s significance of Malaysian art on the global map. Mohidin’s work has Ethnological Museum of Berlin, where I encountered Thai and remained central to Malaysian art ever since, but his defining Cambodian relics. Everything started with my fascination on the moment was in February earlier this year, when Mohidin had the shape of a pagoda. When I came home, I travelled to Thailand, singular honour of being the first Southeast Asian to have a Cambodia, Nusantara, and eventually I returned to my homeland dedicated solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou in Paris. Now, the Minangkabau. I observed that the traditional houses had shamanic ‘Pago Pago’ series, a compilation of the many symbolic forms of figures to protect the house, which they call pagar-pagar. I liked Southeast Asia, has journeyed from Europe back to Malaysia, what I saw from the handicrafts in Laos and Thailand—they were opening new dialogues with young artists and pushing boundaries. unique and rich in cultural shapes. Put all of these elements together and you have the ‘Pago Pago’ ship. These things are familiar to How momentous is it for you as a Malaysian to be the first Southeast Asians and it has rarely been highlighted in art. Fifty years Southeast Asian artist to have a solo exhibition in an institution ago, these symbols sought to create new dialogues when the art like Centre Pompidou? industry was saturated with European influences. It is amazing taking a series that is more than 50 years old, and How is ‘Pago Pago’ a tribute to the Southeast Asian region? presenting it in a contemporary time. This collaboration was As simple as the fact that ‘Pago Pago’ was showing on the same floor conceived when the chief curator of Centre Georges Pompidou, as masters such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. You might ask, Catherine David, was looking for an interesting Southeast Asian “What does this mean?” It’s a breakthrough for us. It means that the artist. She was very enchanted by the ‘Pago Pago’ paintings in curators are telling the world that Southeast Asian art does ‘Reframing Modernism’, an exhibition held in National Gallery contribute to the modernism of Europe. Does ‘Pago Pago’ speak to young people today? Still Life 62, 1962, Latiff Mohidin People tend to say that successful work is old, but to me, “old” is just a subjective word. Everything can be seen from a contemporary perspective and art is futuristic. When you look at Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Shakespeare, these people are alive, because their works are still relevant. When you read about them, you are looking at a work of art. They’re old presents, old memories that shape you, and they’re always with you no matter how much time has passed. g ‘Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960-1969)’ is until December 30 at Ilham Gallery, Level 5, Ilham Tower, 8, Jalan Binjai, Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 03-2181 3003. www.ilhamgallery.com

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The Forbidden City, where between 1420 and 1911 the emperors of China’s last two dynasties, the Ming and the Qing, lived and ruled FINE CHINA

160 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 here is a small enclosed garden in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City, Beijing’s 80-hectare red-walled, yellow-roofed, built-to-intimidate immensity, where between 1420 and 1911 the emperors of China’s last two dynasties, the Ming and the Qing, lived and ruled. The garden was T designed in the 1770s by the fifth Qing emperor, Qianlong, for his pleasure after retirement. Within it, atop a mountain-like rockery of fantastically eroded and pockmarked stones extracted from Lake Taihu—so called scholars’ rocks, nature elevated to art, found in the gardens, museums, and grand houses all over China—is the Terrace for Gathering Dew. Bronze vessels were placed on the little platform to collect dew, with which the emperor’s tea was brewed. Or so the story goes. The exquisite refinement of the idea stopped me, and made clear, on my first day in China, that coming to terms with the country’s culture, size, and multifariousness would be as challenging, if not as fanciful, an endeavour. We most often see China from a distance and through a scrim of largely negative headlines, painted in broad, sombre geopolitical strokes: a vast, befogged land of authoritarian rule, crazed The distinctive Oriental Pearl Tower urbanisation, disregard for the in Shanghai’s Pudong treasures of its past, and rampant environmental destruction. As Austin Zhu, Beijing director of luxury travel bureau Abercrombie & Kent, told me over tea in the lobby of the newly renovated Peninsula Beijing (vaulting white marble anchored by two massive statues of tea drinkers contemplating the tiny cups of national elixir in their hands), “China has bad PR.” I had been here before, on business. My mission this time: to see the country as a traveller would, for the pleasure of it. Guy Rubin of Beijing-based Imperial Tours had told me, “Even people who come here on holiday tend to just check it off their list. But China should be like Italy—a place you visit again and again.” It seemed a hypothesis worth testing, especially as China has not only an immeasurably rich past but something Italy does not: possibly the keys to our collective future. “China has nearly a quarter of the world’s population,” Lorenz Helbling, owner of Shanghai’s seminal ShanghArt Gallery, pointed out, “so, also, a quarter of the talent. This is the new world.” He was talking about art—but not only. My game plan: three days each in Beijing and Shanghai, which is still the essential travel duo, despite the rise of China’s second cities—Chengdu, for one, where the pandas are. And two day trips, one to Xi’an, home of the Terracotta Army—going to China and not seeing this archaeological discovery would be like skipping the Valley of the Kings in Egypt—and one to Hangzhou, to see the park-like city’s The time is right to really see the country behind the dreamy, classical-painting-and-poetry-enshrined West headlines—its restored historic treasures, the cutting- Lake. I wouldn’t be doing much sleeping, but when I did I wanted to tap into the best ministrations: the impeccable edge art, and all the thrills of a rising new world. service, the glorious food, and of course, the insider By Klara Glowczewska. tips for my endless exploration in this humbling land.

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Untitled, 2018, speciﬁcally conceived Instead, with cultural by Maurizio Cattelan for ‘The Artist historian Patrick Cranley, Is Present’, is a replica of the Sistine Chapel in a 1:6 scale I went for a walkabout of: the former mercantile palaces along the Bund, erected from the mid-19th century to the 1930s on profits from this port city’s vast trade in porcelain, silk, and opium; the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum—they began Dine in serenity at Yongfoo Elite arriving in Shanghai between 1933 and 1941, when it was the only truly international and open city in the world; and the leafy streets of the former French Concession, where you can still spot old men in berets, the cafés sell croissants and éclairs, and signs used to say no admission for Chinese and dogs. I took in the buzz of the renovated Xin Tian Di area, where Shanghai’s fashion week is held, and then on my last afternoon found myself in an unexpected scene: the Bund. “Not only is the government supporting arts education throughout China,” Meg Maggio, an American expat and owner of the Pékin Fine Arts gallery, told me back in Beijing. “It is providing incentives for wealthy property developers, especially in Shanghai, to open private museums. It’s not that culture is the end goal—they’re using art to promote cities— but the effect is the same.” In addition to a number of important galleries—I loved Lorenz Helbling’s ShanghArt—the West Bund is anchored

SHANGHAI already by two such major private institutions, the Yuz and the Long. The latter has 52,400 square metres of exhibition space, “and it’s an absolutely smashing collection,” said DON’T MISS ... Kevin Ching, the Hong Kong-based CEO of Sotheby’s THE PULI HOTEL AND SPA Asia. “It’s the expression of one woman’s vision and An oasis of calm in one of the world’s busiest cities. The Traditional mission.” I met briefly with Wang Wei, the co-founder Chinese Massage at UR Spa is a treat and director. “My husband likes ancient art,” she said. to the weary soul, while the stunning “I like art of the last indoor pool overlooks the lovely 100 years and started Dragon Jing’an Park. in Yuyuan YONGFOO ELITE collecting 30 years ago. Garden Surrounded by a romantic garden, The National Museum “Chinese society is ancient, but we are also very, Chinese antiques, Art Deco furnishings, and grand chandeliers let me build this—for very young,” said Shanghai fashion designer Lu make up this colonial French the glory of the country. Kun. Nowhere did I feel that youth as keenly as in Concession villa. And now I’m looking Shanghai, the glamorous debutante-with-a-past of YUYUAN GARDEN Two hectares of pavilions, koi ponds, at young talent from China’s cities. We were aboard the Peninsula Hotel’s plum blossoms, rockeries, and all over.” yacht on the Huangpu River, which meanders to the dragon walls. East China Sea and neatly divides central Shanghai WEST BUND Shanghai’s rising art district. Must- in two. On the western bank lies what locals call see: Gucci’s exhibition, ‘The Artist The modern pool at Puxi, with its famous stretch of now-spruced-up Is Present’, curated by Maurizio The PuLi Hotel and Spa neoclassical and Art Deco buildings, the Bund; on Cattelan at Yuz Museum, which the eastern side is Pudong, the wall of skyscrapers explores originality in modern art. erected on what were fields less than 20 years ago. Lion’s Head is a Shanghai Both banks are the most glamorous and cuisine must-have photographed urban panoramas in China. I had stunning views of them from my corner terrace suite at the Peninsula, and while lounging I seriously pondered doing nothing but agonising over which of the overwhelming number of recommended restaurants I should try in the time I had. “People think China is still undeveloped, but look at the sophistication here,” said Maggio. We were in Beijing’s Indigo mall, of all places. A mall was not on my painstakingly devised itinerary. But according to ancient Chinese belief, bad energy follows straight lines and good energy meanders. I was going with the fl ow. La La Land was playing in the mall’s theatre. e bookstore was well— and internationally—stocked: Gabriel García Márquez, Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie. We passed shops with designer baby clothes and organic Korean beauty products, packed with “happy middle-class wives!” said Maggio. Beijing’s 80-hectare red-walled, yellow-roofed, Multitudes have been lifted out of rural poverty at startling built-to-intimidate Forbidden City speed—hence the ubiquitous monster apartment towers. As Anne- Cecile Noique, a China expert and gallerist, would tell me, “Time in town barriers of all sorts seemed to be falling. At the new has another dimension here. What you’re able to do in China in Christie’s auction house in Beijing, a multigenerational crowd 20 years is immense. Twenty years in Europe and America? Not had assembled for the fi rst-ever showing of a Mark Rothko so much.” We passed a glittering Tesla showroom. “Teslas are huge painting in China. “Because Asian participation in global art sales here,” Maggio said, their owners the fi rst generation of China’s mega- has now reached 31 percent,” Jinqing Cai, president of Christie’s rich and their so-called “millionaire babies”. But eco-consciousness China, told me, “we no longer bring leftovers here for preview, but now crosses economic strata and is government-incentivised: buyers the tops.” of all plug cars receive a rebate of up to USD19,000. Small wonder: Beijing’s latest must-see edifi ce, developer George Wong’s China shares a border, one is repeatedly reminded here, with more Parkview Green Museum, a glass-encased Louvre-on-steroids, countries than any other—14. is a startling mashup of art (Wong’s collection), commerce I climbed the Great Wendenuer, 2016, Martin Wehmer (shops, restaurants, bars, hotels), and sustainable constructions. Wall, at its Ming-era Mia Yu, the architectural historian showing me about, could Mutianyu section, 90 not resist quibbling about the art, which includes a striped minutes by car from revolving Buddha, a mechanised bull’s head, and a giant model Beijing. e misty of a submarine. mountain ridges and I had arranged through Abercrombie & Kent to see a restored the crenelated ramparts private courtyard home in a hutong, as the city’s few remaining snaking along them were neighbourhoods of narrow streets and traditional one-storey beautiful. But what struck BEIJING houses are called. Its owner, Yang Jing, an elegant woman who me most powerfully up once ran a coal company and now owns the boutique Jing’s there was the futility of Residence hotel in the historic town of Pingyao, served me smooth, walls. e regime blocks 40-year-old pu’er tea while I took in the beauty all all social media, but back DON’T MISS ... around: upturned rooftops, Chinese antiques, two BEIJING PLANNING red metal chairs positioned beneath a leafl ess tree, EXHIBITION HALL a recumbent contemporary white sculpture of two Dry Communist name, riveting scale models of the city through giant lotus fl owers. Jing explained the spirit of the history. Even the kids will like it. Chinese courtyard house. “It is designed to make you TRB feel the seasons,” she said. “ at is why the rooms are Contemporary European cuisine in a beautifully restored not connected—so you have to walk outside into the 600-year-old temple complex. courtyard to get from one to another.” YAN WHISKEY BAR In the chill of the February evening I found Tiny, sexy, and chic, in a hutong courtyard house. No myself at the Yan Whiskey Bar, one small room in a better place to end the night. tucked-away courtyard house. Just a polished wood counter, a few sleek bar stools, three black-tie-attired bartenders, and behind them, a wall of imported whiskeys and Scotches

Beijing’s National Centre from Japan. Nightcap nirvana. for the Performing Arts aka The Giant Egg

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A tiny fraction of The Terracotta Army

The ancient Xi’an City Wall

“Bad pollution today,” said Joe Liu, my guide in Xi’an, pointing at the unnaturally greyish-yellow, oddly low- askew, his lips form a Mona Lisa smile, and when you walk around hanging sky. I’d never seen anything like it, and I was glad I him you see the intricately patterned sole of his right shoe making was able to. Is this our future? Xi’an is the cradle of Chinese an indentation in his buttock as he kneels. A young man in all his civilisation, the country’s capital from its unification in idealised specificity must have posed for this. You hear the whoosh 221 BC until 907 AD, and the terminus of the Silk Road of millennia. in the city’s heyday under the open-minded and inclusive After a quick visit to the tatty but magnificent 8th-century Great Tang dynasty, when China was the most prosperous and Mosque, in the heart of Xi’an’s old walled city, which is remarkable for powerful country in the world. Some 72 emperors are buried its Chinese-inspired architecture—the minaret looks like a pagoda, in greater Xi’an’s 8,000 square kilometres, but I flew here for and I sat on a Qing dynasty bed while talking to the imam—it was the funerary extravaganza of Qin Shi Huang, the warlike first back to the airport for my flight to Shanghai. “If you return,” Liu said, emperor who brutally created the footprint of the modern “don’t come during the first week of May or October. Those are both

Chinese state. Empire building was apparently no prettier X I’A N national holidays. Chinese use their elbows and Westerners end up than wresting a country from underdevelopment. He died, in seeing nothing. We feel bad about that.” 210 BC, a spectacularly paranoid man: his 8,000-strong Terracotta DON’T MISS ... Army was meant to guard him in THE TERRACOTTA ARMY The Great Mosque the afterlife. Not surprisingly, it Platoons of life-sized clay was also he who began building warriors buried with China’s the Great Wall. first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. The facts about the warriors THE GREAT MOSQUE are well-known. They are life- Vast, 8th-century, and remarkably, built in a Chinese size. They stand in battle-ready architectural style. The epitome formation facing east, where of cultural assimilation. danger supposedly lay. They DE FA CHANGE were accidentally discovered The no-frills place by farmers in 1974. And each for dumplings. is distinct from the other in everything: physiognomy, hairstyle, clothes, even the lines in the palms of their hands. But no photographs prepare you for the vastness of Pit I, which is about two football fields. Still, what stayed with me the most strongly was one detail. In a glass case in the museum adjacent to the ongoing excavation sites is a figure of a kneeling archer. His handsome face is young, his ancient Chinese version of a man-bun is slightly

164 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 Marco Polo described Hangzhou as “without a doubt the fi nest and most splendid city in the world”, and today it is still one of the prettiest in China, its coal-burning factories shuttered in the late 1990s and trees planted on much of its land—a vast urban garden, with one of China’s largest Buddhist temple complexes nestled in a valley, and a strong economy driven by e-commerce and IT. Alibaba is headquartered here, as is Huawei. China’s movers and shakers, such as Alibaba’s Jack Ma, have homes on the shores of West Lake, and they’re channelling, perhaps, the literati of centuries past, the gentlemen-scholars who spent their leisure time writing poetry, painting, and conversing in Hangzhou’s gardens and teahouses. I was ready—I arrived for the day by bullet train from Shanghai— for at least a quick taste of that. Xixi National Wetland Park ere was something almost prelapsarian about HANGZHOU the Dragon Well Manor restaurant, set amid the hills and tea plantations on Hangzhou’s outskirts. DON’T MISS ... shrimp; pork belly with eggs and steamed sprouts; I walked towards its eight pavilions and terraces— DRAGON WELL MANOR hairy crab, sea cucumber, and bamboo shoots with private dining rooms only, the way most Chinese Exquisite farm-to-table dining in a garden salted ham; fi sh soup with pickled cabbage; sticky amid tea plantations. China’s version like it, decorated in minimalist Ming dynasty of Chez Panisse Restaurant & Café, rice with nuts and red bean sauce; and rice cake style—over winding paths and small stone bridges, California, or Biota Dining, Bowral. with brown sugar. ere was much more, but I was next to strands of bamboo and bonsai trees, skirting HU XUEYAN HOUSE too stupefi ed to write it down and just collapsed little streams and lily pad-covered ponds. One of 19th-century China’s wealthiest outside on my private terrace to listen, as I imagine e restaurant’s owner, Dai Jianjun, a wealthy men built this mansion for his wife, 12 the literati would have, to birdsong. former businessman, has made it his mission to serve concubines, and 19 children. West Lake, framed by hills and dotted with the delicate cuisine of the so-called Lower Yangtze WEST LAKE pavilions, was lovely. “I was worried you might region using only local, organic, seasonal, and often Especially in the off-season, you’ll feel not like it,” my guide, Aaron Wang, said, “Some as though you’ve stepped into a misty, foraged ingredients, which are prepared according delicate Chinese painting. foreigners don’t get it. It’s the China of watercolour to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine. paintings, not green but sort of grey.” It was a subtle e place, said to be China’s fi rst “destination” canvas against which a swath of pink from an early restaurant, has a cult following, so reserve well in advance. blooming plum tree, or a girl’s bright red coat as she walked under After 13 tasty amuse-bouches—there is no menu, you are presented weeping willows, were all the more memorable and stirring. with the chef’s inspirations of that day—I ate soy milk soup with baby At the Mei Jia Wu tea village, a stern but pink-cheeked lady with glowing skin gave me a lecture about the history The tranquil Four Seasons Hotel of tea in China and the Hangzhou is surrounded by willow trees and the picturesque West Lake antioxidant qualities of the village’s Dragon Well green tea, the country’s most

LYN YEOH LYN prized—and accordingly priced—leaves. At the end, I parted happily with an extraordinary amount of cash for a year’s supply— you keep it frozen—of the top variety, Emperor’s Tea, which is culled from the ﬁ rst spring harvest. About tea bags, even ones labeled organic, she pronounced, “ at’s junk, dust left over from the harvesting process. Real tea is powerful medicine.”  ADDITIONAL TEXT: EMMILYN YEOH. PHOTOGRAPHY: SHUTTERSTOCK; EMMI SHUTTERSTOCK; PHOTOGRAPHY: YEOH. EMMILYN TEXT: ADDITIONAL

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 165 TheFLASH! Bazaar

S H I O A N F ICONS Harper’s BAZAAR honoured music royalty with a star-studded New York Fashion Week event at the Plaza Hotel to celebrate the ﬁ fth anniversary of ‘Icons by Carine Roitfeld’.

Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid Omari Hardwick, Jay Ellis, Dascha Polanco, Chance the Rapper, and Trevor Jackson OPENING TUNE

Devon Windsor and Coco Rocha Harper’s BAZAAR’s global fashion director, Carine Roitfeld, and the worldwide editors of Harper’s BAZAAR celebrated ‘Icons by

Grace Elizabeth Carine Roitfeld’ with a black-tie rebels event, opening New York Fashion Week. Infor, Karen Elson, Carine Roitfeld, and Joseph Altuzarra Estée Lauder, Saks Fifth Avenue, Fujifilm Instax, Genesis, and Stella Artois partnered with Harper’s BAZAAR, as Belvedere and Moet & Chandon poured the night’s signature cocktails. The spectacular event had glamorous guests Kaia Gerber, Joan Smalls, and Kendall Jenner partying away, with a special performance by six-time Grammy Award- winning pop icon Christina Aguilera. Amber Valletta and Constance Jablonski Danielle Herrington

Leomie Anderson and Alexina Graham

A fashionable night to remember with music royalty

Heidi Klum

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Melisa Lara Mokhzani and Tun Dr Sri Hasmah

NEW HORIZON

Wei-Ling Gallery, in association with Natasha Kraal, Prof Dr Jimmy Lim, Claire Lee Bloy, and Datin Dian Lee the National Visual Arts Gallery of

Malaysia, and with Harper’s Mariam Teh, Datin Meera Sen, and Puteri Badrinise Zakuan-Alauddin Three-year-old Lim Rae-Lyn and the Symphonia Fantasia String Ensemble BAZAAR Malaysia as media partner, celebrated Malaysia’s 61st independence with ‘Teh Tarik with the Flag’, exploring the symbolism of Jalur Gemilang through the brush strokes of 13 Malaysian artists. With Tun Dr Siti Hasmah ofﬁciating, panellists Ivan Lam, Choy Chun Wei, and Hayati Mokhtar delved into the complexities of the Malaysian identity in a dialogue, leaving guests pondering the question Lim Wei-Ling and curator Line Dalile posed, “What does Christina Ho the future of the Jalur Gemilang hold?”

Wan Kamaruzaman Wan Ahmad, Selina Yeop Jr, Zena Khan, Leila Khan, and guest (far left)

168 HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 SENSOR IA L PLEASURES Jamie Ong, country general manager at LVMH Parfums Christian Dior, Celest Thoi, Datin Azliza Tajuddin, and Lovell Ho, director of leasing at Pavilion KL Syafinaz Selamat Datuk Maison Christian Dior scents, Kay Tian Rigby and from light La Collection Privée Natalia Ng florals to warm Perron Rigot candles, lingered in the air at the opening of Malaysia’s first-ever Christian Dior Paris boutique in Pavilion KL. Guests

were given exclusive access Lee Ming to the maison’s collection of Chiang fragrances, soaps, candles, and mitzah scarves—

Daniella Sya an invitation into perfumer-creator François Demachy’s creative world.

Fyza Kadir

Sophia Khan and CT Ray BingTong Yu

HARARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 169 TheFLASH! Lim Wei-Ling

Mariam Teh, Elizabeth Lee Yong, and Natasha Kraal

Fyza Kadir

SUMMERTIME POPS Ung Yiu Lin

With the quintessential Italian summer in mind, Bvlgari hosted a fun evening at its Pavilion KL boutique, featuring bright, colourful jewels from the Bvlgari Bvlgari Classic and Gelati collections. Gleaming Bvlgari Bvlgari jewels—a soft rose-gold bracelet here, a flip ring set with pavé diamonds there—were showcased as A-listers oohed and aahed, pastel popsicles in hand and iced in Marion Caunter every sense of the word. With Bvlgari’s Hubert Hoi, Rebekah Yeoh, interpretation of classic cool on display, and Ken Lim guests mixed and stacked the accessories, keeping the playful vibes going all night. Tengku Zatashah Sultan Sharafuddin Nicholas Chew and Idris Shah Nicole Sia

Soong Ai Ling

Khairul Fahmy and Puteri Afzan Shakira Nabila

170 HARPER’S BAZAAR MAYNOVEMBER 2016 2018 Debbie Goh

Kim Raymond, Zaireen Iskandar, and Datin Sabrena Dani

Izara Aishah Adib

Vanessa Tevi Kumares and Maggy Wang

Daiyan Trisha

THE SUITE LIFE Elisya Sandha

An exclusive two-day YSL Beauté experience took over Kuala Lumpur, following the luxury beauty brand’s widely acclaimed pop-up beauty hotels in Paris, London, New York, and Tokyo. The city’s A-listers, armed with their personalised YSL Beauté Hotel key cards, made their way through the neon-lit space for a night of runway glam and beauty games, navigating past sleek luggage carts and a presidential suite,

Ain Edruce and towards a showcase of the latest Rouge Pur Eika Azam Couture The Slim Matte Lipstick. Mon Paris and Y fragrances wafted through the Darting into beauty air, as electrorock beats from Twinkies and Reem Shahwa and Ellie Norman Bittersweet kept the energy up. Twinkies on the decks

Ferhat Nazri, Marion Caunter, Ung Yiu Lin, and Danielle Graham Zaireen Ibrahim

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 171 TheFLASH! Cindy Bishop Betty Rahmad Betty

Sasha Yusof, Hunny Madu, and Reem Shahwa

Sazzy BEAUTY ON Falak A HIGH

It was easily Nars Cosmetic’s party of the year, as the French beauty brand celebrated its most anticipated launch of 2018 at The St. Regis Kuala Lumpur’s Grand Ballroom. Vibing to Lee Ming Chiang the tune of #NeverFakeIt for Alia Bastamam and Ai Lee Tan, brand general manager of Nars Malaysia the new Climax Mascara, all eyes were on the models as they strutted out in Climax-red leather, and stole the scene on stage with the stunning host for the evening, Cindy Bishop.

Elaine Too, managing director of Shiseido Malaysia, Audra Roslani, and Ee Loo Tan, assistant PR manager of Nars Malaysia Red and racy for the Nana Mahazan latest mascara launch Danielle Graham, Venice Min, and Lynn Lim

Tod’s artisan at work

ARTISANAL AFFAIR Customisation—from Deborah Henry’s personalised gold Gommino loafers to the hot-stamping work by Tod’s Italian artisans—was the theme

Siti Saleha at the Italian label as it revealed its

Datin Sri Chris newest boutique at Pavilion KL. Abishegam Dato’ Seri Dr Farah Khan, president and founder of The Melium Group, as well as Massimo Caltagirone, regional director Asia Pacific of Tod’s Group, played host, while HRH Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom officiated the opening. Tod’s Autumn/Winter ’18 accessories stood out against the high-gloss ceilings and travertine marble floors—a design intention as subtle, contemporary, and elegant as the evening.

Deborah Henry Kavitha Sidhu Kavitha

Christina Ho

Ribbon-cutting ceremony with Dato’ Seri Dr Farah Khan, HRH Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom of Pahang, and Massimo Caltagirone

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COACH 2.107 & 3.106, Level 2 & 3, MAX MARA 2.56 & 2.57, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Pavilion Elite. Tel: 03-2142 7799 Tel: 03-2142 9988 COS 2.108 & 3.105, Level 2 & 3, MCM 2.69.02 & 2.69.03, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Pavilion Elite. Tel: 03-2110 6799 Tel: 03-2148 9299 MCQ ALEXANDER MCQUEEN DAMIANI 3.43, Level 3, Pavilion KL. UG3, Adorn Floor, Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2141 3110 Tel: 03-2141 1413 DEGEM 40-46, Jalan Maarof, MICHAEL KORS 2.10.1A, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Bangsar Baru. Tel: 03-2282 3618 Tel: 03-2145 8855 DIAMOND & PLATINUM F128 & 129, MIU MIU 2.13 & 3.15, Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. 1st Floor, 1 Utama Shopping Centre. Tel: 03-2142 7675 Tel: 03-7728 8832 M MISSONI UG10, Adorn Floor, Starhill Gallery. DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Tel: 03-2142 0675 G236, Ground Floor, The Gardens Mall. MONTBLANC 2.18 & 3.20, Level 2 & 3, Tel: 03-2202 2098 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2144 3323 DIOR G28, Indulge Floor, Starhill Gallery. MOSCHINO 2.33.03, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2143 1886 Tel: 03-2148 5588 DKNY G217, Ground Floor, M PAVILION 3.52 & 3.53, Level 3, Pavilion KL. The Gardens Mall. Tel: 03-2287 6191 Tel: 03-2141 6088 DOLCE & GABBANA G29, Ground Floor, MULBERRY 2.37 & 2.73, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2181 2708 Tel: 03-2141 0620

EMILIO PUCCI 2.42, Level 2, OMEGA G16, Indulge Floor, Starhill Gallery. Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2143 5588 Tel: 03-2144 0035 EMPORIO ARMANI 2.10.03, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2144 9714 PANDORA 2.09.01A, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 8544 FENDI G31 & 125, Ground & 1st Floor, PATEK PHILIPPE G43/G43B-C, Ground Floor, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2166 7828 Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2161 3611 FOSSIL 4.48, Level 4, Pavilion KL. PIAGET G07B, Ground Floor, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2143 2163 Tel: 03-2078 7078 FRENCH SOLE 2.09.01, Level 2, PLEATS PLEASE BY ISSEY MIYAKE Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 0808 3.48, Level 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 0389 PRADA 2.22 & 3.24, Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. GEOX 4.52, Level 4, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2144 3608 Tel: 03-2141 3648 POLO RALPH LAUREN 3.55 & 3.56, Level 3, GIORGIO ARMANI LCG03, Ground Floor, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2110 6903 Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2166 7003 GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI 2.31, Level 2, RED VALENTINO UG2, Adorn Floor, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 5757 Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2141 3273 GIVENCHY 2.39, Level 2, RICHARD MILLE 15A, Adorn Floor, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-21436088 Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2144 0669 ANYA HINDMARCH 3.42, Level 3, Pavilion KL. GUCCI 2.21 & 3.23, Level 2 & 3, ROGER VIVIER 2.32 & 2.32.01, Level 2, Tel: 03-2142 0989 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2143 6988 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2143 8885 ALDO 237, 2nd Floor, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2181 7957 ROLEX 3.02, Level 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 8999 AUDEMARS PIGUET U29, Adorn Floor, H&M Ground, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Floor, Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2144 8639 Lot 10 Shopping Centre. Tel: 03-2146 0360 SACOOR BROTHERS 2.01.11, Level 2, HABIB C48 & 49, Concourse Level, Suria KLCC. Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 0605 B. SPACE 2.10.1B, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel:03-2141 0288 Tel: 03-2166 7677 SAINT LAURENT 2.32, Level 2, Pavilion KL. BALENCIAGA 2.44, 2.45 & 2.46, Level 2, HERMÈS 2.27.01, 2.27.08 & 3.29, Level 2 & 3, Tel: 03-2143 8885 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 8827 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 0048 SALVATORE FERRAGAMO 2.20 & 3.22, BALLY G03R & 106A, Ground & 1st Floor, HUBLOT G35B, Ground Floor, Suria KLCC. Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 3090 Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2163 2041 Tel: 03-2181 7037 SINCERE FINE WATCHES 2.29 & 3.21, BANANA REPUBLIC F223, 1st Floor, Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 8418 The Gardens Mall. Tel: 03-2287 4598 IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN 3.40, Level 3, Pavilion KL. STUART WEITZMAN 2.50, Level 2, BCBGMAXAZRIA 3.42, Level 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 7999 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2143 5188 Tel: 03-2141 0717 SWAROVSKI 3.47, Level 3, Pavilion KL. BOTTEGA VENETA G21 & 22, Ground Floor, JAEGER-LECOULTRE 2.46.03 & 2.46.04, Tel: 03-2145 3185 Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2161 1345 Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2144 2848 SWISS WATCH GALLERY 2.46.01, Level 2, BOUCHERON G15B, Indulge Floor, Starhill Gallery. JIMMY CHOO 2.55, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 9977 Tel: 03-2143 2669 Tel: 03-2141 3999 BRAUN BÜFFEL 4.32 & 4.33, Level 4, Pavilion KL. JUDITH LEIBER 2.14, Level 2, Pavilion KL. TAG HEUER 3.44 & 3.45, Level 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 0172 Tel: 03-2141 9855 Tel: 03-2141 5159 BULGARI G20, Ground Floor, Suria KLCC. TED BAKER 3.01.07A, Level 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2382 0450 KATE SPADE NEW YORK 3.09.02, Level 3, Tel: 03-2141 5539 BURBERRY 2.16 & 3.18, Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 9339 THE HOUR GLASS 2.40 & 2.41, Level 2, Tel: 03-2148 1681 KENZO G4 & G5, Indulge Floor, Starhill Gallery. Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2148 8930 Tel: 03-2144 1799 TIFFANY & CO. 2.17 & 3.19, Level 2 & 3, CALVIN KLEIN PLATINUM 3.57, Level 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 6282 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2113 0257 LACOSTE 3.01.10, Level 3, Pavilion KL. TOD’S 2.33.01, Level 2, Pavilion KL. CAROLINA HERRERA G40B, Ground Floor, Tel: 03-2110 6501 Tel: 03-2143 8808 Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2161 0632 LANVIN 2.10.02, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 7788 TOPSHOP 4.43 & 4.44, Level 4, Pavilion KL. CARRERA Y CARRERA G12, Indulge Floor, LIBERTÉ 101D, 1st Floor, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2166 1055 Tel: 03-2110 0263 Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2148 2669 LOEWE 2.35.01, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 0262 TORY BURCH 2.69.01, Level 2, Pavilion KL. CARTIER 2.12 & 3.14, Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. LONGCHAMP G03C-E, Ground Floor, Suria KLCC. Tel: 03- 2142 8666 Tel: 03-2113 0211 Tel: 03-2171 1000 CELINE 2.35, Level 2, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 1086 LOUIS VUITTON G19 & 23, Indulge Floor, ULYSSE NARDIN UG22 & 25, Adorn Floor, CHANEL LC-G06 & 07, Ground Floor, Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2141 8790 Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2148 0388 Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2726 1818 CHARLES & KEITH 4.39, Level 4, Pavilion KL. MANOLO BLAHNIK 2.43, Level 2, Pavilion KL. VALENTINO G2B, Indulge Floor, Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2142 5511 Tel : 03-2113 0258 Tel: 03-2141 1348 CHOPARD 2.24 & 3.25, Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. MARC JACOBS G08, 09 & 10, Ground Floor, VAN CLEEF & ARPELS G15B & C, Indulge Floor, Tel: 03-2145 3611 Suria KLCC. Tel: 03-2056 6998 Starhill Gallery. Tel: 03-2142 8669 CLUB 21 MULTILABEL 3.34, 3.35 & 3.36, MASSIMO DUTTI 2.07 & 2.08, Level 2, VERSACE 2.25 & 3.27, Level 2 & 3, Pavilion KL. Level 3, Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2142 8806 Pavilion KL. Tel: 03-2141 5528 Tel: 03-2141 0677

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SAGITTARIUS GEMINI November 23 – December 21 May 22 – June 21 You’ve every right to enter a particular Expect to feel torn between your private life situation confidently but you mustn’t be and the part you play in the wider world. arrogant. You’ll be dealing with people who You cannot keep everybody happy and respond well to those who are bright and should accept that at some point you’ll feel well-informed but not egomaniacs. Fairly you’re letting one individual down quite close by there’s someone on whom you can badly. Talking openly about your dilemma model yourself very successfully. to the person concerned is your best bet. Lucky day 3rd—as you probe a complex Lucky day 26th—something you share with area the truth emerges. another doubles your fun.

CAPRICORN CANCER December 22 – January 20 June 22 – July 23 People lobbying for group activities expect Workmates or friends need to give you your support, but perhaps, they don’t realise more support. Address this issue tactfully, that you have certain standards. Your ruler especially with Mercury retrograde from Saturn getting into a spat with the Sun the 17th, as people won’t like hearing that suggests that it won’t take much for you to they’ve let you—and themselves—down. object at the first sign of dissent. Ring, Bvlgari Sound collaborative rather than critical. Lucky day 23rd—speculation pays off in Lucky day 11th—you enjoy turning your surprising ways. attention from money to love. SCORPIO AQUARIUS October 24 – November 22 LEO January 21 – February 19 Although you wouldn’t deny that July 24 – August 23 You’ve anticipated developments in your As you decide to explore different professional life or day-to-day routine for a your financial situation needs an territories, which until now you’ve found while. As you learn what’s likely to occur, overhaul, you’ll resent anyone intimidating, you’ll feel a mixture of there will be excitement, and then great suggesting that you are quite fascination and fear. Be well-prepared but enthusiasm. Don’t be too harsh on yourself not overcautious so you can still relax and if you realise you’re clinging to mementos. hopeless in this particular area. relish the whole experience. Lucky day 10th—conflict is avoided by your Even so, it probably would be wise Lucky day 15th—accepting an invitation charm and diplomacy. to accept help and advice from broadens your horizons. someone whose expertise in this PISCES area is well-known. Streamlining VIRGO February 20 – March 20 August 24 – September 23 People who see you as confident have no completed by around November Those insisting that you invest in idea that anxiety is sometimes your sworn 23 will make a huge difference. enhancements to your home and family enemy. Cosmic activity might have merely hope to see you indulge in a lifestyle provided a shield to deflect concerns but Lucky day that provides the support you need. Even if only temporarily. Acknowledge that you the outlay seems excessive, focus on what have insecurities that need to be addressed. 9th—some sort of home delivery you’ll be getting for your money. Lucky day 7th—introductions promise makes your day. Lucky day 25th—people show how much intriguing outcomes. they appreciate your affection.

ARIES TAURUS LIBRA March 21 – April 20 April 21 – May 21 September 24 – October 23 Having felt restrained within a particular If handling money or property on behalf of Surprises sprung on you by somebody close set-up, you’ll want out. However, once others you have to be seen as squeaky clean. needn’t be problematic. Uranus reversing, Jupiter enters Sagittarius on November 8, Complex deals can be negotiated more as it were, into Aries in the first week of the you’ll decide that you’ve exaggerated the easily in the first half of the month. From month might initially leave you wondering problems and overlooked the advantages. then on there’s possibility that whether you’ll ever feel totally secure in a Resist making any major moves until you’re communications will break down. The set-up, which from time to time takes your sure where you want to go and how. fewer delays, the better. breath away. Refuse to overreact. Lucky day 16th—by forgiving and Lucky day 8th—a long-overdue reunion Lucky day 27th—entertaining others leads forgetting, you rescue a relationship. lifts your heart. to unexpected delights.

HARPER’S BAZAAR NOVEMBER 2018 175 TheINSPIRATION

Nathalie Arbefeuille, chef and owner of N’ T Nathalie Gourmet Studio DO YOU HY . . B Y N A T H A L I E . ? W ARBEFEUILLE

The inventive French chef, who has spent more than 20 years in Asia, shares her passion for her home country and her gourmet way of life.

... REVEL IN THE PERFECT PARISIAN DREAM? My favourite place in France is Pays Basque in Biarritz, at the border of Spain, where the mountains meet the sea. You can choose between the two, and if that doesn’t quite ﬁt the bill, take a drive to the petite city of San Sebastián. There’s so much to discover here, from Art Nouveau buildings and sandy beaches to cultural festivals and Michelin dining.

... RECOGNISE THE POWER OF FEMALE CHEFS REINVENTING THE GLOBAL CULINARY SCENE? My friend Anne-Sophie Pic is a talented three Michelin-starred chef in France. I’m amazed at her knowledge of interesting flavour pairings, especially in her project of perfecting flavoured dashis that give our main meats floral or woody fragrances. She travels a lot to discover new techniques, and she’s crazy about citrus at the moment. She’s gone from Corsica to Japan, just to understand the flavour profile of citrus fruits.

... REMINISCE ABOUT HEARTWARMING MOMENTS FOR INSPIRATION? Both of my grandmothers were really good cooks, and their recipes are an inspiration to what I make. Growing up, I loved eating stuffed Savoy cabbage with veal, pork, and parma ham, cooked slowly in the oven, as well as classic French desserts such as beignets and café liégeois.

... EXPERIMENT WITH A DIFFERENT VOCABULARY? My most recent pop-up project, Whimsy, was a multi-sensory dining experience and the highlight of my year. I got to discover more molecular techniques while having fun. Nathalie Gourmet Studio 2.0 just reopened late last month, and we’ve got a new space adorned with pictures of Paris from young photographer Adrelanine, as well as a stunning new menu.

... DISCOVER THE TRUE INGREDIENT OF STAYING RELEVANT? Having a curious spirit is the most essential trait in being a chef. Once you remove yourself of competitiveness, you realise that you can learn something new by knowing what’s happening around you. Cooking is all about sharing, travelling, and discovering. It truly is an artistic work. g www.nathaliegourmet.com INTERVIEW: EMMILYN YEOH

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