Carmen Sin

Carmen Sin is a journalist on the style beat, covering fashion, beauty and culture. She is a former lawyer who joined The Straits Times in 2023 as a breaking news reporter.

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Fan Bingbing launches her beauty brand Fan Beauty Diary with fan meet

(Clockwise from left) Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, Leekaja salon at Tangs and the Peekaboo bag from Fendi's Emily in Paris capsule collection.

Jeans: Symbol of culture wars after viral ads

Sydney Sweeney appears in a "good jeans" campaign poster at retailer American Eagle's store in Times Square in New York City, U.S. August 18, 2025. REUTERS/Sami Marshak

ChatGPT: Everyone’s minion... and boss?

FILE ÑOpenAI's ChatGPT on a laptop in San Francisco, on March 21, 2025. A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition. (Kelsey McClellan/The New York Times)

The Greatest Self-implosion Award goes to Singapore bag brand Aupen

Check out a suit made for 38 deg C heat at free exhibition addressing climate change through fashion

Hot Bodies exhibition space. Hot Bodies rethinks design in a time of record-breaking heat and air-conditioner dependency.

Christmas gift guide: What to buy for the naughty and nice people in your life

Whether the gift is for someone “naughty” or nice, the guiding principle here is not to waste money on generic objects.

Tony Leung talks about plants having souls and ‘last stage of his career’ in Singapore

Actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai speaking at Marina Bay Sands Hibiscus Ballroom in a dialogue session on Nov 28 as part of the Singapore International Film Festival.

Dragons, laksa and samsui women designs: Uniqlo x The Straits Times limited T-shirts go on sale

Winners of the UTme! x ST180 Design Contest, (from left) Ms Daphne Ong, Ms Sandara Tang and Ms Justina Low.

Brand conscience: Barehands is the hot Singapore label selling clothes made by refugees

Barehands founders Germaine Lye (left) and Chanel Go at their newly opened second store in Takashimaya on Nov 19.

Political correctness is not for French Vogue ex-editor Carine Roitfeld. What, then, does she care for?

Former editor of Vogue Paris Carine Roitfeld during the media preview of the UBS House of Craft x Dior at Tanjong Pagar Distripark on Nov 18, 2025.

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