One-seam shift dress

The one-seam dress first appeared in Thomas Wee’s comeback collection at the Singapore Fashion Festival in 2008. The dress was the culmination of a process of distillation where he had repeatedly removed elements he considered unnecessary – zips, buttons, hooks, belts, joints – until all that was left was a single seam. Wee garnered public attention as one of the finalists in Her World’s Young Designer’s Contest in 1978. He opened his boutique in 1982 at Far East Plaza and quickly became a household name by the end of the decade. He was promoted by Singapore’s Trade Development Board as part of a group of designers known as ‘The Magnificent Seven’.

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