8 Local Lifestyle Brands To Add To Your Holiday Shopping List

It’s always good to have a plan when it comes to gifting. Make a list of who to shop for, research where you can find what you need, and come up with a gifting theme, so you can be more focused in shopping for the presents.

If you’re still undecided, let our helpful Christmas elves point you towards gifts that are Made With Passion, a national initiative that showcases a curation of local lifestyle brands celebrating passion and creativity. Within the collection of labels, you’ll find pioneering Singapore brands that cover the gamut of fashion, beauty, food and more.

Each of these local lifestyle brands and their signature products express passion, beauty, artistry and craftsmanship in unique ways that would appeal to each individual you need to shop for.

BloomBack is the perfect gift for those who love flowers, simply because it reimagines the classic floral bouquet. When you buy a BloomBack product, you are also paying it forward and shopping for a good cause. This ethical store creates beautifully designed, everlasting preserved flowers that are handcrafted with love and precision by disadvantaged members of society. Modern and minimalistic in aesthetics, these decorative items can be placed in every space in the home or office and will lend a sense of tranquil wholeness and well-being to any ambience.

Its signature Personalised Preserved Flower Dome meaningfully preserves not just a pretty, one-of-a-kind floral arrangement, but precious memories in the form of a photograph of your choice. BloomBack uses top-grade roses with thicker, fuller petals and each glass dome is also lovingly packaged in an elegant gift box.

Present the stylish urbanite who works and plays hard with a leather gift from Tocco Toscano, which is all about functional yet elegant leather pieces. To own a piece of the label’s leather products is to buy into the brand’s inspiring past: its Singapore founder, James Lor, travelled to Florence in Italy to learn the art of leather-making and returned to Singapore in 1987 with the licensing rights to Toscano. After buying over the Italian brand’s trademark, Lor gave it a contemporary Asian veneer. Today, his son Joseph has modernised Toscano’s philosophy further and initiated many successful collaborations with it.

Looking for a unisex gift? Consider the Tocco Toscano Bottle Bag, the perfect needful carrier for the season – something elegant in which to bring wine or champagne to parties. Crafted in sturdy, gorgeous, vegan-friendly leather, it comes in 3 trendy colours – burgundy, green and navy.

The Animal Project isn’t your ordinary lifestyle brand, but a social enterprise with a big heart. Since 2013, The Animal Project has empowered special-needs artists by using their artwork to embellish lifestyle products like mugs, tees and tote bags, which are first and foremost attractive and useful goods, but made even more special by their cause. Part of the profits from the sale of the animal-themed art pieces, gift items and everyday products go to initiatives that support inclusion and celebrate the abilities of the special-needs community.

Gift its popular The Animal Project Collection - Flamingo Plus, illustrated by special-needs artist, Jun-Yi, which consists of all their best-sellers bundled together: travel bag, travel tumbler, U-mug and keychain – to cover your recipient’s everyday needs.

Surprise and treat dessert-lovers with a gift from award-winning dessert chef Janice Wong’s sweet label, Janice Wong Singapore, which purveys handcrafted experimental sweets that marry food and art. Janice’s never-ending passion for culinary art has propelled her forward as a designer, artist, chef, and dreamer, as she continues to serve up wild creations of edible art such as chocolate crayons, to reimagined confectionaries such as her signature chocolate bon bons.

Present your sweet-toothed loved one the Janice Wong Singapore Assorted Hamper so he or she can sample the best from Janice Wong’s collection of artistic confectionary. It comes with popular items such as her ingenious edible crayons, melt-in-the-mouth colourful swirl-patterned chocolate balls, and can’t-stop-at-one anytime-cookies.

’Tis the season to enjoy beer, but don’t make a gift out of just any kind of beer. Make yours locally crafted and delicious, from Brewerkz.

Founded in 1997, Brewerkz is Singapore’s original craft brewery that has brought innovation into the local indie beverage scene, and it continues to excite with quirky flavours. As a true original, this homegrown brand is dedicated to creating exciting experiences to tickle the senses of craft beer lovers anywhere in the world.

Beer lovers will appreciate the Boozehound Specials 12x330ml mix case, a specially curated mix pack for a tasty array of its beer styles and flavours that include Bohemian Pilsner, Tanjong Rimau Yuzu Nutmeg Witbier, Fort Siloso Chocolate Vanilla Porter, and more.

You can’t go wrong with giving the guys in your life a well-tailored shirt. But The Shirt Bar goes several steps further for you – it pushes the boundaries on men’s fashion with sustainable production and tailored details. The team behind The Shirt Bar realised that well-tailored shirts at good prices are hard to find. In order to fill this need, they offer stylish, comfortable, well-designed shirts that are also made sustainably and sold at friendly prices.

You’ll be doing your part for the earth if you picked The Shirt Bar Navy Circle Eco-Ol Bamboo Short Sleeve Shirt for a loved one, perfect for summer, thanks to its cooling, soft and silky eco-blend bamboo fabric, choice of custom- or relaxed-fit and stretchable collar.

The Shirt Bar’s accessories are equally stylish and practical, such as this Orange and Navy reversible Belt, which nails function with design. It’s two for one and crafted in 100% genuine leather.

A gift from Hysses is a gift of nature to indulge your recipient’s olfactory senses. Every Hysses product is inspired by Mother Nature and created to pay tribute to the earth’s natural ingredients.

The Hysses Wellness Starter Kit is the best way to begin. It comes with a glass and pyramid wood nebuliser, a full-size bottle of mandarin essential Oil, and an essential oil starter kit of 4 other aromatherapy oils in 5ml bottles.

The Hysses pyramid nebuliser uses cold air nebulising technology to break down the essential oils into microdroplets, which are then dispersed into the air as a mist, with microdroplets that are both inhaled through the lungs and suspended in the air. All this to enable deep therapeutic action, as well as maximum scenting.

Add Porcelain’s array of needful skincare products to your holiday list and you would be indulging someone with the gift of good skin. Rooted in innovation, craftmanship and the authentic promise of helping customers achieve their dream skin, Porcelain is always guided by the adage of healthy skin from within. Its expansive range of clean and safe products can be tailored to every skin need. 

One of this made-with-passion brand’s must-give comes in the guise of the Porcelain PH Balance Set. This beauty treat targets both oily and dry skin, by giving either back its balance. The set, which consists of deep cleansing gel, balancing essence and bio cellulose mask, ensures excess sebum production is controlled while the complexion remains deeply hydrated. Just what skincare should do.

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As one of the key partners of the Made With Passion initiative, KrisShop is where you can shop all these local brands – and many others – under one roof. From local flavours to homewares, beauty and wellness products, and fashion staples, discover more gift ideas here.

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