Love, Bonito

Rounding August up with our very own birthday celebration! 🎂🎉✨ It’s our 14th birthday this year and we lived up to the theme of our brand tagline “Ready-to-live” with an inspiring international panel about embracing fresh beginnings and navigating a season of growth with Esther Chan (Director, HQ Marketing), Catherine Cheng (Retail Area Manager, SG), Elgine Candra Chandra (Strategic Finance Manager, ID), AJ Lelis (Marketing Manager, PH) and Zenith Yuen (Retail Store Manager, HK). Complementing the panel is a candid sharing of birthday wishes from Rachel Lim and Dione Song, our very own birthday song contest with winner Zaki Alamsyah, and a synchronised singing of happy birthday globally across all our teams! It was no doubt a special celebration for all of us at #TeamLB 🥳

As we continue to scale and expand internationally, how do we ensure consistency in service and product knowledge in our retail stores globally? The magic lies in our Train the Trainers programme that is conducted by our Global Retail team here at our Singapore Headquarters! This week, our in-market Retail Trainers Benedicta Maurilla, Daniel Moises °, May Tang, Vera Yip, and Zaki Alamsyah dropped by our sunny shores to learn more about retail best practices from Felicia Ng (Senior Specialist, Retail Training) 🇸🇬 It’s been a fruitful week where the trainers deep dived into Styling 101, customer service as well as assortment training - from fabric to form. They also visited our stores to experience the operational happenings from daily briefings, customer service audits as well as to observe and interact with customers. Beyond retail best practices, our trainers also enjoyed an in-person preview of the upcoming Fall/Winter collection and tried Singaporean delicacies! ✨

The retail industry seems to have gotten itself a bad rep, but is that really the case? 👀 Our #TeamLB colleagues Afifah, Michelle Yap, Razlinda and Shaamini debunk misconceptions and share candidly about personal experiences on worklife balance, job scope and more! 🤰 As part of our mission to celebrate and uplift Asian women, Love, Bonito provides the opportunity for expecting retail staff to shift into a less strenuous administrative role in HQ in their third trimester. We go above and beyond in ensuring our new mums feel well-supported in a retail role.  Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/gwgkXrnf #retail #behindtheseams

YES, THAT’S OUR FIRST STORE IN THE PHILIPPINES! 🇵🇭✨ After five years of e-commerce offering, here we are in Makati City, Greenbelt 3 Mall with our first store spanning over 2,000 sqft. We have experienced high growth over the years and are extremely grateful to our dedicated local LBCommunity who have been ever so supportive. More than just a space for our customers to enjoy the physical shopping experience, we are also looking forward to partnering with local brands and organisations to offer our customers more curated events. 📍 Drop by our newest store at Love, Bonito, Level 2 Greenbelt 3, Makati City! #storeopening #philippines 

HELLO Sunny Singapore 😎 Our 7th store across the island and first in the East at the newly renovated Tampines 1 Mall! We’ve been exploring a new store location to serve our community in the East and finally opened a 3,500 sqft store at 10 Tampines Central 1 #02-08/09 🌴 It was definitely a memorable experience meeting our community in person with an in-store Beach Blitz game, BerryBar sweet treats and exclusive gift with purchases. #Funfact, this is also the only store in Singapore that thoroughly reflects the brand’s new identity! See you around if you’re in the area 🥳

As part of our social responsibility to the fashion industry, we partner exclusively with suppliers that are compliant with industry standard social audits such as BSCI and SMETA. The partnership is guided by Love, Bonito’s Supplier Code of Conduct, which includes zero tolerance for forced and child labour, maximum working hours and minimum living wages. The series of images features the making of our Signatures collection with suppliers in China. The working environment across various suppliers are safe and hygienic, well lit and well spaced out. Working hours are also kept to a standard workweek, with fair and equal remuneration provided for workers. #corporateresponsibility

Last month, we celebrated #Inclusivity! Our Bronitos of varying ethnicity, sexual orientation and life seasons participated in a friendly debate around Workplace Inclusivity. We explored topics around the importance of diverse leadership representation, DEI training and disclosure of personal details to drive more catered initiatives and were heartened to see #TeamLB participating enthusiastically in these conversations, both online and offline! 🔥 We also engaged therapists from Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped to provide #TeamLB a good kneading, with a larger goal to expose teams to people with disabilities, and nurture a stronger sense of empathy and appreciation ❤️ Topping off the day with free flow ice cream in traditional bread from Cone Island. The booth was decorated with colourful rainbow flags and in celebration of pride, love and diversity in Love, Bonito! 🌈 #diversity #inclusion

We’re so proud to launch the High Waist Pencil Midi Skirt, an upcycled skirt that was previously designed as a dress. When we first saw the piece in person, we knew that they were not fit for sale due to bubbles on the fabric. While processes are in place to ensure that we keep defective apparel to a minimum, such instances still occur and we are committed to ensuring better end-of-life management of these clothes. Despite additional resources required, we knew that this was a step in the right direction when it comes to reducing our impact on the environment. #sustainability #circularfashion

“Specifically for email and Slack, you might be surprised but I actually don't enable push notifications to my mobile at all." Our CEO, Dione Song, shares with Tatler Asia how she set boundaries so that she's able to lead with resilience and longevity. Her key advice? Learn to be okay seeking help regardless of your seniority within the organisation.

According to CNA, Singapore is seeing a falling number of fashion design graduates, with one key reason being the lack of a strong ecosystem to support local designers. Being one of the leading fashion brands in Southeast Asia, we’re proud to  partner up with Asia’s leading contemporary arts and design institution LASALLE College of the Arts to establish the Young Graduate Designer’s Industry Award. This award exposes aspiring Asian fashion designers with real world experiences in the international fashion industry and provides graduates with an entry point into the fashion industry. After months of rigorous design presentations, CEO Dione Song presented talented winners Ni Siting and Pricilla Chiquita Mintura with a 2-month long apprenticeship with our Design & Development team. Our first prize winner Siting also won a cash prize of S$1000! Huge thank you to Circe Henestrosa and the LASALLE Team for empowering young talents and making this collaboration possible ❤️ (Source: https://lnkd.in/gJ5-3pDN)