Photo gallery: City Plaza is biggest fashion wholesale mall in Singapore
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Shop-owner Helen Chua, in her 60s, has been at City Plaza for more than 10 years. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Shop-owner Richard Loh, 57, met his wife Elaine Tan, 51, at City Plaza when both of them were working there. They now have their own shop selling shoes and their son, Edwin Loh, 26, helps with the business.-- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Jasmine Lim, 28, sews sequins onto dresses in her shop at City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Jasmine Lim, 28, with dresses that she designs and decorates at her shop in City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Shop-owners unpack new stock that arrives on a Monday. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Shoppers check out shoes on display as a shopkeeper rushes by, on Dec 24, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Fashion wholesale centre at City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Fashion wholesale centre at City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Shoppers at City Plaza on Dec 24, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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Shoppers at City Plaza on Dec 24, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Shop-owner Helen Chua, in her 60s, has been at City Plaza for more than 10 years. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Shop-owner Richard Loh, 57, met his wife Elaine Tan, 51, at City Plaza when both of them were working there. They now have their own shop selling shoes and their son, Edwin Loh, 26, helps with the business.-- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Jasmine Lim, 28, sews sequins onto dresses in her shop at City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Jasmine Lim, 28, with dresses that she designs and decorates at her shop in City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Shop-owners unpack new stock that arrives on a Monday. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Shoppers check out shoes on display as a shopkeeper rushes by, on Dec 24, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Fashion wholesale centre at City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Fashion wholesale centre at City Plaza. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Shoppers at City Plaza on Dec 24, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Shoppers at City Plaza on Dec 24, 2012. -- ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
It is about 1pm on a Monday afternoon at a shopping mall. Shop owners are sitting on the cement floors of their shops, unpacking plastic-wrapped clothes from cardboard boxes and laying them into piles on the floor. Plastic bags filled with clothes are stacked atop one another.
While this is unseen at most shopping malls, it is an everyday affair at City Plaza. Standing between Guillemard Road and Tanjong Katong Road, the mall has gained a reputation since the late nineties for being the biggest fashion wholesale mall in Singapore. Within the mall are mainly shops selling women’s clothings.
