Mun, Hossan Leong, and others. In 2005, Lee was awarded the Cultural Medallion for music. In 2009, he penned the theme song for the APEC Singapore 2009 summit which was performed in front of world leaders such as Barack Obama by Kit Chan during the Singapore Evening at the APEC Singapore 2009 summit on 14 November 2009 at the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. He was also the director of the 30-minute musical extravaganza involving 376 Singaporean artistes in a concert extravaganza enhanced by multimedia projections. In 2010, Lee was the Creative Director of Singapore's 44th National Day Parade. In 2011, Lee returned with The Adventures of the Mad China man, a concert, and Beauty Kings, an original comedy play. In 2012, Lee also performed — and was a character — in TheatreWorks’ National Broadway Company production for the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay's 10th anniversary celebrations. In 2013, Lee returned to musicals by composing the 90-minute LightSeeker, which premiered at Resorts World Sentosa. He was also named a Steinway Artist and became Creative Director of the revamped Rediffusion Singapore radio station. In 2014, Lee held a concert, Dick Lee: Celebrating 40 Years In Music, at the Drama Centre. In the same year, a revamped version of his 1997 musical Hotpants was restaged. After his third stint as National Day Parade's Creative Director, Lee will return to helm 2015's golden jubilee show; and he has been tasked to write the next big National Day song. In 2015, Lee was the creative director of Singapore 50th National Day Parade, where he composed the NDP theme song "Our Singapore", performed by JJ Lin. In 2017, Lee made his directorial debut with the autobiographical musical film, Wonder Boy. Fashion career Having studied fashion design at Harrow School of Art in London, Lee's interest in fashion began at 16 when he designed for his mother's boutique Midteen. He designed his own labels for his boutique Ping Pong, as well as for Hemispheres, the first young designer store he set up with a partner. Other forays in the fashion world include Display Director for Tangs departmental store in 1984, fashion editor of Female magazine in 1986 and one of the founders of the Society of Designing Arts, which spearheaded the introduction of Singapore designers to the local fashion market. From 1982 to 1990, Lee also ran his own event company Runway Productions, which