Caroline Low-Heah Don’t call Dr Caroline Low-Heah a collector of fashion. Low-Heah, who is the medical director of Drs Jiten & Caroline Medical Centre at Serene Centre, has quietly carved out an interest in French luxury maison Dior over the last 30 years. But despite her 500-piece assortment of ready-to-wear, accessories and jewellery, she is affable and relatable when it comes to clothes.
In fact, her relationship comes from a place beyond runways altogether. “I don’t collect a brand and I do not collect fashion. I’m not a fashionista.
I’m very old-fashioned. I’m very formal. You see a lifestyle that you want when you go and buy a brand, right? That’s how you associate yourself with it.
I keep thinking that I’m back in a Turner Classic movie,” she shares. When asked about the beginnings of her relationship with Dior, Low-Heah is quick to point out an instinctual draw to the brand after watching a rerun of Mrs Harris Goes to Paris in 1985. It’s no small coincidence that the 2022 remake of the movie starring Leslie Manville was nominated for Best Costume Design at the 95th Academy Awards.
“It’s not so much that she wanted to wear Dior anywhere, but how she spent all her time and saved all her money for that dress. That was a journey,” she recounts. At 31 years old, Low-Heah purchased a Gianfranco Ferré for Dior blouse that would cement a life-long expedition with the brand.
“It was nothing about the piece. It was something that made me realise it.