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Audrey Quek
Image/ Fashion Consultant
Corporate and personal image management courses as her specialties, Ms. Audrey Quek now counts blue-chip clients such as SingTel, UOB, Ministry of Trade & Industry, CIAS, MediaCorp, Singapore Press Holdings, Hewlett-Packard Singapore, Adidas, Royal Sporting House, and Singapore General Hospital, among her clientele. She works also with many education institutions, such as National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Republic Polytechnic, and Temasek Polytechnic. Her programs combine up-to-date and time-tested theories with practical application.
Then part of the prestigious Elite Models, Ms. Quek won the title of Miss Singapore World 1999, representing Singapore at the Miss World finals in London that same year. Her poise and class also set her apart from 31 finalists from five countries, leading her to win Miss World Fuqing 2000 pageant.
Following her success, Ms. Quek has lent her expertise as an image consultant to the local pageant scene by organizing Miss Singapore World 2000, as well as to popular talent-search events, such as The New Paper New Face 2000/2006, Teenage Icon 2005/2006/2007, Star Idol 2005 and Giant Stars 2005/06/07. She was deportment trainer for contestants of Miss Singapore Universe 2006/2007 as well as Jean Yip Beautiful 25 televised on Channel 8 in 2007.
Ms. Quek has contributed articles on image building to Teenage Magazine, Hype Magazine, The Straits Times, The Business Times, URBAN, TODAY and NTU Career Tracks; as well as guest speaker on radio station Capital 95.8. She was featured in The Straits Times Urban as a “makeover maven” in July 2005/2007. Her most recent win saw her clinching Most Beautiful Mum 2007 by Junction 8. Consequently, she was invited by Junction 8 to be the deportment trainer, stylist and judge for Most Lovely Mum 2008.
Her debut book, “ABC to your Dream Job!”, launched in June 2009, is aimed at equipping fresh graduates, the unemployed and anyone who wish to project and maintain a professional image at their work place or to improve themselves further through the important areas of interview etiquette, dressing, grooming and communication.
The AUDREY QUEK EXECUTIVE LABEL for Women, a ready-to-wear clothing line launched in June 2009 was created by Ms. Quek to give women choices in creative, flattering, yet affordable dressing styles for office, socials and interviews.
A qualified image consultant who trained with First Impressions, U.K., a leading image consultancy firm founded in 1984, Ms. Quek established Audrey Quek Image Consultancy in 2004. She is the Vice-President of Education of the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) South-Asia, Singapore, dedicated to advancing the level of professionalism and enhancing the recognition of image consultants. Ms. Quek holds an honours’ degree in Real Estate from National University of Singapore; and a Diploma in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Boston Academy.
As her desire to see others reach their potential, image-wise as well as personality-wise, Ms. Quek will continue reaching out to help as many attain personal success.
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