Fashion scandal in Singapore
When you challenge existing styles

Continued interviewed with Loletta Michelle on fashion trends in Singapore (inspired by Japanese styles)

MYNIPPON:  So how did you become the ‘scandal girl’ of Singapore?

Loletta:  When I took my first set of pictures and put them on the Internet, there was absolute chaos.  I was a hot topic on every local web discussion forum.  People here are so narrow-minded that if they see a girl like me, they think that she has no character – she is cheap and loose.  Since my website was such a hit, some servers even deleted my profile.

MYNIPPON:  Are you feeling some persecution due to your high profile on the Internet?

Loletta:  Well, I maintain a high profile on the Net but a low profile in real life.  Singapore is such a small country that anyone can check me out.  Sometimes someone will recognize me and shout at me and I will simply smile.  In some cases I have handed out my photographs.  I do not put any makeup when I go out and do not dress provocatively at all.  It takes a lot of guts to do what you wanna do in Singapore.  I can tell you that many of my girlfriends and women I know have their own fantasies but they dare not do anything about them.  They are afraid of being recognized in a small, conservative country.  The men here add to the problem.  As I mentioned earlier, a girl who dresses provocatively is viewed as easy.   

MYNIPPON:  What do you think of Singaporean women?

Loletta:  I can say that the girls in Singapore are pretty.  80% of the girls here I dare say are babes.  They have the height - on the average 1.6 m, slim, and fashionable but only in the way what’s hot in Singapore than what’s hot in Japan.  Fashion here is boring for me because of the mass production of some particular fashionable pieces.  They are all alike and everyone just tries to look like everyone else – there is no originality.  Girls here go for the easy way out.  To them it's "as long as I look good and not out, why not?"  Hence, you'll see many ladies around town wearing black.  (Related article:  Looking slim like Japanese women)

MYNIPPON:  How do you compare yourself to other Singaporean women?  Are you an exception?

Loletta:  I dare say I am an exception – thinking wise.  I don’t allow myself to conform to society - jump on the bandwagon syndrome.  I speak my mind, though there’s hardly a thing as speaking your mind in Singapore.  Even my boyfriend is not like me.  He is open in some ways but he's also a little conservative in other ways.  Since I got to know him, no more bold pictures for me but I can still take suggestive, naughty pictures.

MYNIPPON:  How do you manage to lead this double life?  How do you take your pictures?

Loletta:  I change photographers but the recent one was my full time photographer.  I know this guy from my Mailing List chat-with-Loletta session.  I found out that he's a semi-pro photographer - he has all the equipment, he drives and he's discreet.  He's also professional enough not to have naughty ideas on me too.  I can also trust him - in Singapore, if you are naïve and have some naughty pictures taken, your pictures will be circulated all around within hours.  I myself did have my pictures being circulated around the Net due to this one girl who I don't how, but she managed to get hold of my pictures and circulated them around IRC channels and forums.  It's definitely not the doings of my photographer as he doesn't play the IRC. I guess she got my pictures from someone I knew and trusted and the rest is history.

MYNIPPON:  Is there anything you would like to say to girls like you anywhere else in the world or even Singapore?

Loletta:  Do what you wanna do.  If you have dreams, fulfill them.   Everyone has a wild side to him or her and you are only young once.  So when you grow old and haggard one day, you would not regret not doing what you always wanted or dreamed of and die regretting it. 

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