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Singapore’s Magnificent Seven: Womenswear-turned-uniform designer Esther Tay finds successor in her daughter
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Before she became known for being behind company uniforms, Esther Tay was a pioneering womenswear designer who up till the late 1990s was stocked in numerous department stores in Singapore.
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SINGAPORE – She has been a uniform maker longer than a womenswear designer, but now and then, Esther Tay still longs for her glory days of fashion.
The 1990s were a blur of attending and exhibiting in shows in the world’s fashion capitals. It was priceless exposure and networking, and getting to learn other countries’ way of dress.
