Nazreem Musa

“I’ve been playing with fashion since I was really young, back in school even. I’m really not just saying this,” Nazreem laughs, backstage at our Asia’s Most Stylish shoot, perched on a stool, his formidable height folded in origami-style. “I think by the age of 16 I started to play with women’s wear, figuring out what the rules are and how to push them. By my early 20s, that’s when I started getting my own identity.”

That style identity is still true today, though fans of his fashion—and he has many—will have seen the way it has ebbed, flowed and evolved over the years. It’s a hard one to put into words, being as it is a reflection of Nazreem’s self—who could sum up a person in a succinct three-word phrase? You’re just as likely to see him in layered, avant-garde street style, hair pushed back under a beanie, as you are in full-length statuesque Rick Owens, hair flowing (with those knee-high boots), or in princess-perfect faux fur, toting a Barbie pink Hermès.

“I’m just a fashion chameleon. I keep changing,” he says. “There’s no specific style that I love. I mean, there are specific designers that I’m into. But when it comes to style, I feel like it’s limitless for me.” Nazreem’s style is, of course, famously androgynous in a way that feels freeing, rather than purely provocative. He’s not interested in simply making a statement for social media. This is how he dresses for himself.