Lila Tan is a triple threat: Beauty, brains and brawn. The 18-year-old is on the women’s national football team, a Miss Universe Singapore finalist and a fashion model on the rise. That’s not all. She also just launched a clothing line named aiheartyou—a play on the mandarin word ài which means love.
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Tan, who is of French and Chinese descent, spent 14 years living and studying in Shanghai before moving to Singapore. She is big on using her newfound platform to raise awareness on social issues such as the treatment and well-being of migrant works in Singapore—a hot topic that launched many social media and fund raising campaigns during the nation’s circuit breaker period in 2020.
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To get to know Tan a bit better, we’ve asked her to show us the seven things she can’t live without.
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