The nearby Scarlet is more like a sexy boudoir, stillstartling in Singapore, with its plush purple sofas, mood lighting, redsuede dining chairs and chandeliers galore.
In 1992, she launched her own fragrance, called "Cashmere Mist, " the directive for which was that it should smell like "Casablanca lilies, redsuede and the back of Stephan's neck, " referring to her second husband, Stephan Weiss.
His shoes don't have a look, he tells me, "because the person who buys custom-made shoes does it for himself, not to show off. (Unless you're a rock star.)" But there's a distinctive sensibility to his work: imagination reeled in by disciplined line--even the model with the partial red-suede upper.