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Made in Singapore: Styling The Nation
We’ll discuss how far the industry has come, challenges of starting a local fashion label and getting recognized and how emerging technologies are styling the industry.
Leonard Choo
Director, Industry Development & Engagement, Textile and Fashion Federation
Singapore
Leonard Augustine Choo is an international costume designer, textile shopper, and bespoke maker currently based in Singapore. He designs costumes for dance, opera, theatre, and film, and was the principal fabric shopper for the costume department of the New York City Ballet for 12 seasons, working on over 75 unique ballets.
Leonard has draped and tailored for the Juilliard School, the television shows Gotham (FOX) and Crashing (HBO), Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Ballet Academy East (New York), Barrington Stage Company, and Opera Omaha, and has also lectured at the Arkansas Arts Center, Lasalle College of the Arts, and library@orchard.
Leonard holds a Master in Fine Arts from Boston University, and in 2011 was awarded the Singapore National Arts Council Overseas Arts Scholarship – the first and only costume designer to have received it. He is currently the Director of Industry Development & Engagement at Textile and Fashion Federation Singapore.
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