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Style Edit: Chanel’s Hong Kong fireside chat to discuss all things time – and the J12

STORYGloria Tso
From left to right: Siobhan Haughey, Juno Mak, Betty Ng and moderator and Monocle editorial director Tyler Brûlé at the Chanel J12 x Monocle On Time event at Duddell’s Hong Kong, in April. Photo: Handout
From left to right: Siobhan Haughey, Juno Mak, Betty Ng and moderator and Monocle editorial director Tyler Brûlé at the Chanel J12 x Monocle On Time event at Duddell’s Hong Kong, in April. Photo: Handout
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Chanel brought together director Juno Mak, architect Betty Ng, and Olympic swimmer Siobhan Haughey for an intimate fireside chat last month

What do a filmmaker, an architect and an Olympic swimmer all have in common? More than you might think, according to an insightful conversation held in Hong Kong recently, which brought together three of the city’s most prominent figures: Juno Mak, the director, writer and producer behind 2025 crime thriller Sons of the Neon Night; Betty Ng, the founder of architecture and design studio Collective and an adjunct associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Siobhan Haughey, a four-time Olympic medallist. Though their professions may differ on paper, their respective disciplines have all been shaped by, in one way or another, their relationship with time – documenting it, savouring it, and maybe even surrendering to it throughout the course of their daily lives.
Siobhan Haughey at the Chanel J12 x Monocle On Time event at Duddell’s Hong Kong, in April. Photo: Handout
Siobhan Haughey at the Chanel J12 x Monocle On Time event at Duddell’s Hong Kong, in April. Photo: Handout

Understanding time, as all three unanimously agreed at the fireside chat hosted jointly by Chanel and lifestyle magazine Monocle on April 30, is another story entirely. Though Mak, Ng and Haughey each described personal challenges unique to their journeys – from time spent pondering purpose and persistence while battling a bout of writer’s block, to time that races by during long hours doing laps in the pool – the trio shared similar sentiments about how precious, finite and underestimated time as a resource really is. “Time changes what you create,” Mak mused. Though we do our best to measure it by the minute, time continues to fascinate, confound and even elude us. “When I wrote at night, my stories were darker. Now I write in the day and the light changes everything.”

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