Years ago, more specifically 20 years back, I had my own version of the Daniel Day-Lewis movie Phantom Thread pan out in my life when I stepped, albeit tentatively, into a boutique tailor shop in Temple Street, just around the corner from Singapore's oldest Hindu temple, Sri Mariamman Temple in South Bridge Road.
There was an almost monastic sign just above the cash register that said: Zann and Denn. It turned out to be a bridal apparel-design shop run by a soft-spoken couple who also did bespoke clothes for a small clientele.
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