What is the limit of fashion?
It’s not far at all, if Cynthia Koh, a local actress, tells you.
The 48-year-old turned heads when she wore a revealing outfit to the Asian Academy Creative Awards last December and there was more that went on behind the scenes with that ‘milk-your-curves’ dress.
Cynthia revealed in a recent episode on #JustSwipeLah that she had a wardrobe problem when she sat down wearing that dress.
She told host Jernelle Oh: “After sitting down, the rings at the side got entangled together… The rings were tied together with fishing strings. So they got entangled and we slowly undid the knots and one of them broke. After that, for the whole night — two hours — I kept leaning against the wall [to hide it].
“I’d rather die pretty. If it looks good on you, why take it off?”
Her stylist Keith Png, who prepared that gown for her, was on the show as well and he shared his thoughts on the controversial dress.
He explained: “For that same gown, it’s flat on the model and it looks okay. Quite nice, quite fashionable… But on Cynthia, as her figure is very voluptuous, it might look too sexy.
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“We were a little worried, but later on, we thought that as a whole, it still looks elegant and makes her shine like a star. I found it okay and acceptable so we dared to try it.”
Though her sartorial choice drew its share of brickbats, Cynthia elegantly clapped back at the haters then and said: “If you can look classy, still have all the great curves, don’t hide them. They don’t last forever. Milk it while it lasts.”
This article was published for the first time in AsiaOne.
Source: Her World