Jaye, the Vintage Camera Paddler and ‘Madecine Man’

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‘To me, photography should bring joy to people. The only route is to go backwards.’

Digitally speaking, we are living in highly-editable times.

With technology serving mankind an endless buffet of camera gadgets and tweakage options, we are empowered to change almost anything according to our whims and fancies. Photo-taking is never the same again. While the Oz of a upload-preview-edit culture continues to bedazzle us, a certain ‘Madecine Man’ who calls himself a ‘camera paddler’ has been on a mission to redeem our tech-dependent souls with a super simple message: go analog.

At the Madecine Shop where he prescribes remedies in the form of vintage cameras picked and cherished worldwide, Jaye’s message is all about embracing the untouched beauty with old-fashioned photography.

When fashion meets sports. Margaret and Deny play a favourite old school sport — Badminton

Jasmine Tuan

Co-founder and Managing Director / THE BLACKMARKET GROUP PRIVATE LIMITED

theblackmarket.sg

An unwavering maxim of giving back and a passion to seek and promote note-worthy hidden gems of Singaporean fashion designs launched Tuan to exercise her curatorial talents.

With eyes sharpened by the influence of globetrotting, Jasmine Tuan cherry-picks covetable creations of potential local designers and parades them at the Blackmarket — a mini-mecca for local-design treasure seekers.

Afton Chen

Co-founder and Designer / RECKLESS ERICKA

recklessericka.com

Reckless Ericka is a godsend to those of us who pray for quality staples with an adventurous vibe. Unfazed and with admirable grace, the young designer balances between a free-spirited artistic signature and the customers’ sartorial quest for taste and functionality,

The feat of mastering this challenge calls for Chen’s craft to combine her design concepts with mindfulness of the wearer. The resulting brainchild, Reckless Ericka, delivers obsession-worthy design collections that fill a necessary niche.  

Choonfai, Awakening of the puppresses, 2008

Choonfai

Illustrator

choonfai.blogspot.com

Illustrating since
November 2008

Award
Winner of the Iconique Societas Awards [Illustrator Category]

Lauded for his supremely timeless style and experimental sensibility, Choonfai has been riding the crest of an illustrious career. Besides reaping his crowning point at the Iconique Societas Award 2008, the celebrated artist continues to whet the appetite of commercial tastes — without compromising his design personality.

Clarence Lee

Celebrity Makeup Artist / Founder of Oblique

Established
1990

Notable Clients
Zhang Zi Yi, Joan Chen, Lin Chi Ling, Nadja Auermann, Eva Herzigova

Two decades now, Lee has taken a giant leap from the elegant early years of pursuing his love for make-up art to become today’s hotly demanded maquillage genius.

Trailblazing his artistic flair from the Oscar’s red carpet to haute couture shows and countless published spreads worldwide, Lee’s notable clients include global supermodels and celebrity big shots such as Zhang Ziyi . While it is unsurprising he has never second-guessed his calling, Lee extends his passion at OBLIQUE – a retail space offering scents of niche brands such as Juliette Has A Gun and beauty remedy, Clearify.

Every country possesses her own tribe of creative extraordinaire.

NAMES roams the fashion domains of Singapore and singles out four local tastemakers who dared to soar. From the pedestal of their own achievements and successes, Clarence Lee, Choonfai, Afton Chen and Jasmine Tuan regale us with tales of their craft, novice days, inspirations and missions.