Browsing “Charles & Keith”

“I’m curious about what it’s like to set up a music festival. The physical labour, the backstage planning—all of it. I love helping things come together.”

“I want to work on my health by balancing high and low intensity workouts, and also eating and sleeping well. Without our health, we won’t be able to move forward in life.”

“I started collecting vinyls during COVID. For my first vinyl, I think I got a Tame Impala or Arctic Monkeys one, but my favourite one that I have now is Jamie XX’s In Colour.”

“If I don’t dress up, I don’t feel confident. So I started to dress up more and found that it isn’t about wearing expensive brands, but about knowing how to mix and match.”

“The motto that I live by is: Happy can already! We can spiral for one hour, two hours, but let's not make it one week, let's do other things!”

“I used to operate my own small fashion boutique in India selling my original Western-Indian fusion pieces, but I shut the boutique down to move to Singapore in 2012.”

“Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was the book that made me fall in love with reading. It was the first time I realised that fiction can stem from reality, and that there’s beauty in the bittersweet.”

"I run a little fashion business with my friends, designing modern qipaos, contemporary tops, and everyday wear using Chinese silk, but I’m also planning to start blogging and documenting my travel adventures."

“One of my favourite books is The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. It’s a heart-wrenching retelling of a Greek mythology about two best friends. Once, my mum got woken up by me crying when I was reading it at 3 in the morning, and she was like, “What’s wrong with my child?”.”

“I’m currently working as an Account Manager, but if I wasn’t in this particular field, I would love to be a dog sitter so I can be around dogs all the time! Or professionally dressing Barbie dolls—I’ve heard that’s a thing.”

“As a creative, I like to go all out with my ideas, then reel them back in when things get too crazy, and I believe in trusting my eye for design. Although I can be very meticulous, I try to let the smaller things go.”

“I got my love for cooking from my mum, who never fails to make my favourite dishes like chicken curry on special occasions. She actually passed on her recipe to me, but I tried it one time and it tasted so off! But my mum tried to be nice about it and fixed it for me in the end.”