Singapore, Sept. 18 -- Editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar Singapore Kenneth Goh turned down his big role three times.
Once in 2006 when he was still a fashion director at the magazine, and on two more occasions when two editors came and went while he was a creative director.
In all three instances, he had not felt ready for the role. Preferring the creative process of styling, writing and travelling to work with production teams, he found an editor's job too desk-bound and "consumed with the business side of things".
"The fourth time, my then-publisher told me 'Look, Ken, I'm not going to offer you this position again. If you turn it down again, that's it.' So I took it," Goh, who is in his 40s, tells The Straits Times with a sheepish...