If you are a fan of 1990s rock music, grunge fashion might also have been your favourite style at that time.

Grunge is a rock music genre and subculture that emerged in the mid-1980s, and became popular in the early 1990s. The fashion style that went with the music is usually characterised by loose and androgynous clothing that de-emphasised the body's silhouette.

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Wong went on stage at a concert in 1994 with her own version of grunge fashion, featuring a loose white sweater with extra-long sleeves, and, most significantly, messy dreadlocks that added a hippie touch to the style.

2. The Bantu knots

The Mandarin ballad No Regrets (執迷不悔) won Wong a Top 10 song award from Radio Television Hong Kong in 1993. However, it was her hairstyle that stole the show at the awards night. Inspired by Björk, the Icelandic singer-songwriter, Wong wore the iconic Bantu knots to the ceremony. The local media referred to the hairdo as the “pineapple head”.

The chic hairstyle made an impact at different times as various celebrities, including the US singers Gwen Stefani and Rihanna and Japanese model Kiko Mizuhara, wore it on different occasions.

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3. The see-through dress and Betty Boop hairstyle

One of Wong’s most recognisable looks was on display at the 1993 Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation organised by Commercial Radio Hong Kong.

As the winner of the Ultimate Female Singer Gold Award, Wong, donning a Betty Boop hairstyle, showed off her slender figure by wearing a see-through plastic dress paired with a black sweater crop top and knitted underwear.

4. The boyish look

In 1994, Wong starred as a worker in a snack food store in the Wong Kar-wai movie Chungking Express.

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While most audiences at that time liked the angelic female idols, typically with snow-white skin and breezy long hair, Wong threw away the rule book and cut her hair short like a boy, revealing her cool-girl persona.

The decision paid off and secured her the Best Actress Award at the 1994 Stockholm International Film Festival. She was also nominated for best actress at the 1995 Hong Kong Film Awards.

5. The avant-garde make-up

Wong has worked with her stylist Titi Kwan and make-up artist Zing for most of the concerts and album covers during her long career.

In the “No Faye! No Live! Tour” from 2003 to 2005, the trio teamed up again. Besides wearing an upside-down high heel shoe on her head, Wong’s eye-make-up – which the make-up artist only had a very short period of time to change for each style – were also unprecedented and unrepeatable.

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6. The dramatic costume

The“Comeback Tour”, from October 2010 to June 2012, was Wong’s fifth concert. She toured to various cities on the mainland, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong as well as cities in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

Her most impressive stage outfit was the chandelier dress which was made out of Swarovski’s crystal fabric and contained more than 10,000 crystals. Different sizes, shapes and cuttings of crystals were used to adorn the chandelier frame.

Besides teaming up with her top-notch stylist and make-up artist, Wong also had sought-after director Wong Kar-wai to design the stage effects for the show.

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