There Will Not Be A Singapore Style

We've heard of people who dressed like Japanese & Korean, or are followers of BCBG (Bon Chic Bon Genre), le Roc, le Punk, le Bohemia, Hip Hop & many other genres, but we've never heard of a "Singaporean style" per se.

There are two main reasons why we'll not have a Singapore style, namely, our population is small and we don't belong to one single race or culture. With a relatively small no. of people, we can't assume an influential position large enough to affect world fashion. With a demographic make-up comprising four major races, the lack of homogeneity in culture makes it difficult, otherwise, impossible to fuse our fashion styles into one. Combined, Singapore's case becomes one with not enough people to push thru' a difficult-to-merge style. In other words, with no critical mass and a major difficulty to amalgamate the cultural fashion styles, we will not have a national fashion genre.

Let's look at how other countries could do it with sheer sizes. In Japan & Korea, they could develop their national genres cuz' their populations are large, and they are near-100% racially homogeneous. In France and the US, although they are less racially homogeneous than Japan or Korea, the no. of people in each race, ethnic and genre groups are large enough to have the critical masses to make world fashion statements.

Still, crossing races & cultures remains difficult, if not, impossible. Despite France's and the US's success stories, we still don't hear of a French or American genre that's cross-racial, do we? This is especially so in the US. The ideals of the Melting Pot (the term came about in 1908) had been mooted since the 19th Century, yet the races remain largely multi-cultural and are independent in fashion styles. They didn't mix, and it just won't happen. That's reality! And thank God it didn't mix, we get genres like the White-influenced BCBG in France and the Afro-American's Hip Hop in the States.