Zing Tsjeng is a journalist and the author of the Forgotten Women book series, and host of the podcast United Kingdom where she explores British identity. This month to mark London Fashion Week we have been celebrating British style on Who What Wear, from our favourite designers to little-known brands. Here Zing writes about how moving to London from Singapore over a decade ago impacted how she gets dressed and what London style means to her.
The first month I moved to London aged 16, I visited Camden Market and wound up trying on a latex nurse costume. “Look!” I said triumphantly to my uncle, who was chaperoning me around London as a kind of sexagenarian tour guide, yanking aside the changing room curtain of a grotty Camden clothes shop. It was the kind of all-come all-served place that sells army boots to gabber fans, fingerless lace gloves to goths and patchouli incense sticks to hippies. “It fits great!”