Shunmugam apologises for race-related remarks at ACM event

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SINGAPORE — The founder of a homegrown fashion label said she is sorry about the race-related remarks she made during a virtual lecture organised by the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) last year, calling them “clumsy, hurtful and insensitive”.


Ms Priscilla Shunmugam, founder of the Ong Shunmugam fashion brand, told TODAY on Friday (March 25) that she is “rightly being held accountable” for what she said.

“I apologise unreservedly for the comments I made,” she said.


The lecture, titled ACMtalks: Nadya Wang and Priscilla Shunmugam, was held on Sept 16 last year, but snippets of the remarks by Ms Shunmugam were picked up only recently and went viral after Instagram page profile Kebaya Societe uploaded them on Wednesday.


Ms Wang is a lecturer at the School of Fashion at Lasalle College of the Arts, and the talk was facilitated and moderated by Ms Jackie Yoong, a senior curator for fashion and textiles at ACM and the Peranakan Museum.


ACM has published other editions of its lectures, which revolve around themes such as maritime trade, faith and belief, as well as materials and design, but the original video with Ms Shunmugam is no longer available on its Facebook page.

In the recent video snippets, which are around two minutes long, Ms Shunmugam is heard responding to a question that was cut out.


She told TODAY that she was asked why the cheongsam — a traditional Chinese dress worn by women — is a recurring silhouette in her work.


She replied to the online audience then about how Chinese women have “progressed significantly faster and further as compared to their Malay and Indian counterparts”.


She also said, among other things, that Chinese women were the “first Asian women to shake hands with men”, long before it was acceptable for Indian and Malay women to do so.


“If you study that, if we understand that, then the fashion answers come from that,” Ms Shunmugam said at the lecture.

“I think as a designer, I can only say that when I play around with the cheongsam, I feel not that there are less restrictions, but I can have more fun, and that Chinese women are more receptive, or they can be more receptive,” she added.

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Why she need to apologise for speaking the truth ?
 
Huh apologize for speaking the truth? If she had said all these during the LKY days, she would have been a full minister!
 
In the old days cheongsam only worn every day by courtesans. :cautious:
 
Mutt women also very open mah. They happily fuck anyone for money. And practiced alot at home already
 
She could have just said which ethnic group has the greater spending$$$ power....
Problem solved oredi!
 
“I think as a designer, I can only say that when I play around with the cheongsam, I feel not that there are less restrictions, but I can have more fun, and that Chinese women are more receptive, or they can be more receptive,” she added.

For a moment I thought it's Shanmugam. He does know a thing or two about easy Chinese women wearing cheongsams.

 
Indian women likes to pretend to be Chinese in Singapore. They are more eager to make racist remarks against Malays, or even try to make love with Chinese behind their hubby's back and make their offsprings more chinese.
 
We have reached a stage whereby nothing negative can be said about a minority race or foreigners whereas its Ok to use harsh words on the majority race or locals.
We even have to resort to use the term South Asia to refer to a particular country until of course the son start to criticise the makeup of their Parliament.
By not saying it in public does not mean such sentiments do not exist and the more you suppress something , the more likely it will explode one day .
Anyway this Shunmugam is mixed Indian/Chinese and had she had malay blood, I bet she need not apologise .
I never like the cheongsam although my relatives used to wear them - must I apologise also?
 
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