CONTRIBUTORS
Sydney- based melissa pearce is an international jewellery editor who has been a regular contributor of Prestige’s annual watches and jewellery supplement, Adore. Over her career, she has interviewed a number of luminaries including Stephen Webster, Delfina Delettrez, Jack du Rose, Hervé Van der Straeten and Frank Gehry. Pearce has also worked as a branding consultant for some of the world’s most prestigious jewellers.
sonia kolesnikovjessop hails from France but has called Singapore home since 2001. Specialising in art and luxury lifestyle, she contributes to Newsweek, The New York Times, South China Morning Post, as well as CNN and Blouin Artinfo. She has interviewed artists from Ai Weiwei and Zeng Fanzhi to I Nyoman Masriadi and Ronald Ventura, discussed art collecting with Victoria Beckham and Christopher Lambert, and spoken with Yayoi Kusama in her Tokyo studio.
daven wu has led a gypsy’s life. He was born in Penang and grew up in Malaysia and Singapore, before he went to school in Perth. He graduated with a law degree but soon realised the error of his ways and has been a freelance journalist since, writing about travel, design and lifestyle trends for the likes of Robb Report
( US), Travel + Leisure, and Wallpaper*, for which he is the Singapore editor. He splits his time between London and Singapore.
Camera-shy kevin pilley may just be UK and Ireland’s most published travel writer. An ex-professional cricketer and former chief staff writer of Punch magazine, his lifestyle features, and stories on food and drink appear worldwide. He claims, in more pompous moments atop barstools, to have been published by 900 titles — 901 with Prestige.
In another avatar, rathina sankari was a software engineer working from the confines of her cubicle for 13 years in India. Today, Sankari juggles her time between travel, photography, food, family and writing (not in the exact order). Her bylines have appeared in publications including National Geographic Traveller India, Forbes India, Travel + Leisure India & South Asia and BBC Travel.