{"id":3081,"date":"2026-05-09T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itpbaz.kinsta.cloud\/fashion\/mothers-day-2026-january-so-style-feature\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:24:10","slug":"mothers-day-2026-january-so-style-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/fashion\/mothers-day-2026-january-so-style-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s Day 2026: January So on Why She Loves Dressing Up With Her Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\tJanuary So (Photographed by Lily Allissa at Fari and Ali\u2019s Kitchen, Bukit Damansara)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Actress and writer January So knows the power of a good story. \u201cI have always cared deeply about narrative, texture, silhouette, and the overall energy a look carries. It was never simply about looking good. It was about whether what I wore could speak accurately to where I was. You could tell exactly which stage of life I was in and what I was going through based on what I was wearing,\u201d she says. But since becoming a mother, the audience to this unique form of storytelling has changed.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tRoselle Chin<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

So believes how a mother dresses can become part of a child\u2019s earliest memories. She has her daughter, Roselle Chin, in her lap as they settle into the quiet corner of a small neighbourhood caf\u00e9, Fari and Ali\u2019s Kitchen<\/a>. The two-year-old is playing with her mother\u2019s scarf.<\/p>\n\n

Roselle is fascinated by The Little Prince, explains So. On the monochromatic background of British artist Shantell Martin\u2019s drawings on the silk canvas, there is a colourful illustration of the beloved character from Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry\u2019s enduring novella of the same name. Tucked in the crook of the toddler\u2019s arm is a stuffed toy, nicknamed Foxy\u2013another reference to the classic tale.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tJanuary So and Roselle Chin<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cBefore, I was more concerned with whether a look was complete enough, defined enough, dimensional enough. These days, I am more concerned with how beauty can be woven into everyday life, like the way we dress. After Roselle, a new theme entered my self-expression\u2014one that is gentle, dependable, and draws inspiration from fairy tales,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cBut nothing is more precious than simply still being here and being together,\u201d she concludes. So opens up about her near-death experience during childbirth, recounting how she \u201cmiraculously\u201d survived losing almost five litres of blood as a whole room of doctors raced to stop the haemorrhaging.<\/p>\n\t

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“Childbirth brought me closer to death than I had ever been\u2014or ever wished to be. Nothing about the way I understood life remained the same after that.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cRight now, Roselle wants to be like me. She wants to wear what I wear; she wants to have what I have. Comfort and simplicity are the foundation\u2014but within that, there must be room for a story. For something that says: this is her. And I can see her starting to have an opinion, picking out things that she likes. It\u2019s beginning to become something we can share. Our style is evolving together,\u201d says So.<\/p>\n\n

Read the full story, \u2018In Her Element\u2019, in the May 2026 issue of Harper\u2019s BAZAAR Malaysia, available online and at all major bookstores.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Mother\u2019s Day, BAZAAR speaks to January So on how fashion is bringing her and her two-year-old daughter closer together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","bz_kicker":"","bz_opener":"classic","bz_photographer":"","bz_hero_caption":"","bz_hero_credit":"","bz_hero_clip":0,"bz_inset":0,"bz_tile_image":0,"bz_clip":0,"bz_tile_dek":"","bz_reading_time":"","bz_duration":"","bz_feature_small":0,"bz_feature_medium":0,"bz_feature_quote":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1231,638,1232,1233,1234,252,1235,1236,791,1237],"bz_slot":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion","tag-aaron-chin","tag-actress","tag-childbirth","tag-january-so","tag-le-petit-prince","tag-malaysian-actress","tag-mother-and-daughter","tag-mothers-day-2026","tag-mothers-day","tag-roselle-chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"bz_slot","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.itp.luxury\/baz-my-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bz_slot?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}