Around Asia

Meet the inspiring people featured in Tatler’s regional titles

TATLER HONG KONG

Twenty years in the making, the ambitious M+ museum for art, architecture and design, and moving images finally opens its doors in Hong Kong. Museum director Suhanya Raffel takes us on an exclusive tour of the Herzog & de Meurondesigned campus.

TATLER INDONESIA

Calligraphy artist and painter Guo Peng goes deep into the art of traditional Chinese ink painting and discusses how each work he creates is imbued with the heritage of high artistry.

TATLER MALAYSIA

Korean-american actor Ma Dong-seok, also known as Don Lee, is marking milestones with his first all-english-language film as a featured superhero, the beefy Gilgamesh, in this month’s Marvel Cinematic Universe release of

TATLER PHILIPPINES

Fashion designer Monique Lhuillier celebrates her 25th anniversary in business with the release of a Rizzoli monograph (Reese Witherspoon wrote the foreword), and regales us with tales of dressing half of Hollywood in her inimitable style.

SHANGLIU TATLER

Artist Liang Shaoji’s practice over the past 30 years has been entangled with silkworms. His solo exhibition, A Silky Entanglement, in the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, highlights different stages of his creative process.

TATLER SINGAPORE

The Cicheti Group founders Liling Ong (above) and Lim Yew Aun, whose restaurants specialise in pizza and pasta, discuss how building a sustainable business is about more than just reducing the carbon footprint.

TATLER TAIWAN

Veteran actor, singer and writer Vivian Hsu has now extended her career to working behind the scenes. Known in the industry as “Iron V”, Hsu reflects on her successes and the evolution of her remarkable career.