Grace Yeh receives the Tastemaker Award at the Prestige Ball 2023

The winner of the Prestige Tastemaker Award exemplifies beauty inside and out.

The English Romantic poet John Keats was passionate about beauty, equating it to truth and the sublime. The same can be said about style maven Grace Yeh, who lives for beauty and its associate virtues of dignity and harmony.

In her youth, Grace’s innate sense of style led her scrimp to buy materials to make her own clothes. She didn’t become a fashion designer, eventually founding her family business Yeh Brothers Wood Works and Yeh Brothers Electronic Works, but she would seek beauty like a butterfly to nectar throughout her life. Even now, she keeps a pair of Bally heels she no longer wears and proudly shows guests her Royal Albert Country Rose china set, the pieces of which she painstakingly collected over the years because, in her gleeful words, “Isn’t it so beautiful?”

“Once I enter shop, I know what’s good for me,” says Grace, who professes not to follow fashion trends and is not above altering a designer piece to her satisfaction. To be sure, her keen fashion sense and charitable work for organisations such as Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Yellow Ribbon Project have made her a regular headliner in society magazines.

True to her personal style compass, Grace attends the Prestige ball in a stunning yellow Oscar de la Renta gown with an accompanying shrug (to compensate for the too-low bodice) and sleeves she had tailored from couturier Frederick Lee, her hair teased into a cloud that adds drama to the elegant outfit. After all, the theme of the gala is cinematic and what better way to dazzle than to add a splash of the X-factor?

In her acceptance speech, Grace explains her interpretation of beauty. “I grew up in Taiwan with four sisters. My parents raised us with Chinese culture and unconditional love. We have always been taught that taste and beauty are from the inside out,” she said. Then, with characteristic wit and grace, she added, “My tastes are simple. I am happy with the best. Tonight, I would like to share this award with all the lovely ladies here – you are the best!”

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The information in this article is accurate as of the date of publication.

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