Notes From The Team At Naiise.

This Saturday, we celebrate our nation's 49th birthday! What better time to celebrate all things local and all homegrown makers? (:

We have invited three individuals from different walks of life to select their favourite locally made or designed items, and share with you what this country means to them.

Born in London and Eurasian by ethnicity, Susannah moved to Singapore in 2012, and has been loving her bike rides down East Coast and hawker-style carrot cake since! She is now the fashion and beauty editor at Expat Living magazine, and writes her own fashion diary at A Fashionable Leo. We asked this lady, who has covered and photographed fashion weeks and reported from backstage at international designer catwalk shows, about her top picks from our local makers. Check out her favourite items here!

Over here at the Naiise Headquarters, we have been obsessed with and excited about our new found love for utilitarian statement accessories. We just can't stop talking about it - be it in between our work meetings or even in our Whatsapp chat group. It's getting very overwhelming and we thought we should share and spread this love with you (hopefully, you will hop on the utilitarian bandwagon too!).

Photo Credit: Gnome & Bow

Naiise invites Skii and Joyce from the incredibly dynamic and witty Popspoken team to hang out with us and talk some design. Drawing from the inspiration of living, breathing lifestyle and fashion daily, the lovely duo also curates their own top gift picks for this Christmas. Check out our interviews with Skii and Chung, and their curated collections here: Gifts for Hipsters by Skii, and Gifts for Stylish Season by Joyce.

Naiise invites Sarah Swee, one half of the duo behind fashion and design website Wottoncool to curate our Gifts for Her collection this Christmas. We speak to Sarah to find out more about the quirky, intelligent and humorous woman she had in mind while curating this gift guide, happy thoughts for Christmas and naiise living in 2014.

Naiise invites Katherine Liew, the photographer behind the incredibly cool fashion and lifestyle website Tanjong Bazaar to curate our Gifts for Shutterbugs collection this Christmas. We speak to Katherine to find out more about the team behind Tanjong Bazaar, their seemingly endless creative energies and how design inspires their daily lives.