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Singapore’s Magnificent Seven: At 75, master designer Peter Kor can’t stop, won’t stop

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Update on the whereabouts of Singapore's most famous clique of local designers from the 1980s known as the Magnificent Seven.

Designer Peter Kor at his office. The 75-year-old’s resurrected namesake label is now stocked at Design Orchard Singapore.

ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

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SINGAPORE – The most reclusive of the Magnificent Seven group of elite designers, Peter Kor, tired of retirement fast.

He had attempted to give up the rag trade in 2021, after an unhappy partnership with his then-investor. But by the close of 2023, he was back at the drawing board for another crack at the old game.

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