The fashion community was abuzz last weekend as British designer J.W. Anderson flew in to Singapore to promote his latest capsule collection with Topshop. Having debuted his men’s collection at London Fashion Week 2007, Jonathan went on to design womenswear and accessories. You can view his past and current runway collections *here*.

In recent news, his more affordable pieces are known to fly off the high street racks in the UK, making it obvious that the generation of NOW is loving his keenness for clean lines with a punch of playful. Looking at his past designs that include juxtopositioned fabrics and prints, you’d decide rather quickly that J.W. Anderson is a designer that not many can carry off. Yet, he claims to want all women and girls to love his clothes, and has proved that with some classic tartan and striped pieces in the new Topshop collection (interjected with his own style of course).

Topshop flew a bunch of Malaysian media and bloggers down to Singapore, seeing they were going all out with only one big event in South East Asia. We had a huge dinner together before adjourning to this warehouse at Helutrans.

It was a huge warehouse that didn’t look like an event was going on, till we spotted a hugely lit Topshop installation outside the main entrance. We walked in and saw velvet ropes and Topshop stickers stuck on the floor…

To get upstairs to the event we had to press the lift and wait for the shutters to roll up.

Clouds and i.

I’m wearing a top from Old Blossom Box Store, leopard pants from Beautiful Disaster, shoes from Topshop. I just have to add that i packed this while completely hungover from partying till 5am with a bunch of drunk French people. In fact, i was still quite hungover AS this picture above was taken.

In the lift going up! The doors slid up from the other side revealing a corridor that’s minimalist white and lit in blue with Topshop x JW Anderson branding all over the place. Really cool venue actually!

Some of the KL peeps! > Claudia from Tongue In Chic, me, Yana from Eh!, and Cai Mei from Harper’s Bazaar.

The area where the new collection was being showcased was crazy with all these people… so i thought it’d be better i just photoshop my favourite pieces below >

All from JW Anderson x Topshop:
Quilted Paisley Silk Tee; Tortoise Print Jeans; Zebra Print T-Shirt;
Quilted Paisley Tees x2

Claudia. Cos she just too cute.

I thought i’d attempt taking some style shots of people whose looks i like at the event and the first person i targeted was this girl cos of her swell jacket (i kept on glancing at it longingly). Turns out her name is Melanie and she works as a Personal Shopper at Topshop.

I caught sight of Linda and Grace and just RAN to them. Urm one of the deciding factors for me to fly to SG for this event was knowing i’d see them cos they were both spinning that night! They brought me to meet Jonathan >

A blurry pic of me and Jonathan aka J.W. Anderson. You can check out his blog *here*

Grace + Linda = TWO FACE

Lots and lots of Belvedere cocktails all night longggg

The second person i asked to get a style shot of, was Anny… who ALSO works as a Personal Shopper for Topshop! -.- I told her i only seemed to be getting pictures of Topshop people, which may well be a good sign cos they certainly styled themselves the best (IMHO)

Vince!

Jonathan had a go playing DJ for the first time… ever! World premiere people! Haha

Electro pop British band CHEW LIPS were flown down to Singapore just to perform at the event. They were GREAT. I couldn’t stop watching lead singer Tigs. She’s got great energy and style woosh!

Oh i saw this familiar face at the VIP section, shamelessly peered into it and said, “You’re the Disney guy!” He then said i’m showing off my age as well as his own.

Jien (come on! It’s the Disney guy mannnn)

Clouds, Jon (the greatest male camwhore on the little red dot), me

Yana and Cai Mei

Jessica from DNP/Topshop Malaysia

Ashely & Jane having bright blue and pink ice cream. I would have succumbed if there wasn’t any alcohol to drink. Or maybe they SHOULD have put alcohol IN the ice cream.

Cherry. I remember her name cos her lips were cherry red. She looks fierce in the pic but the moment the cam is turned away she’s smiling haha.

Katherine & Yvette came to ask me for a style shot. Then i returned the question cos i loved what they were wearing too.

Stylist Angeline, singer Hagen Troy, and Edwin Taylor

We stayed at the party for four hours (!) then a bunch of us left for Kilo, where there was some great Spanish music playing and everyone was dancing with their shoes off. Got dragged to another bar which played some awesome electro house. Took many drunk pictures. Got over my hangover by partying for 8 hours. Had Japanese food and sake with Kevin’s birthday friend Yatin and the group. Went home. And thought HOW ON EARTH did i party till 4-5 am on two consecutive nights? I guess i still have it in me. Woohoo!

The JW Anderson x Topshop pieces are priced between RM186 and RM409. The collection will be available from Oct 3 at Topshop in Suria KLCC and Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur. You can view the collection on the official Topshop website *HERE*.

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