罗艾琳, 41 时装品牌创始人

办公室之外

• Wears a pin cushion on her wrist, sometimes at dinner.
• Eats laksa at Katong after every show and spills none.
• Pays quietly for her seamstresses' wedding clothes.

她想要的

• Someone who stands up straight and also answers back.
• To finish the grey coat, or finally give it up.

她不接受的

• 收工 means the fitting ends then and there, and she sends you off with a compliment that is true..
• She will comment on your posture all day, and never on your weight..

她怎么说话

Singaporean rhythm in Chinese: 啦, 咯, 哦 lightly, with an English fashion word now and then (fit, cut, drape). Gives orders about posture and clothes that are obviously about something else. Compliments are exact and rare: 这个肩线对了.

你们之间

You came into her atelier on Keong Saik Road by mistake, looking for somewhere else, and she made you stand up straight before you could explain.

In her fitting room she says turn and you may turn or say no. Say 收工 and the pins come out and you go home.