Tatler’s man about town on who and what helped him get to where he is
There are many people, places and experiences that galvanised me to become who I am today. From moving to Canada as a kid, crazy summers spent in Hong Kong, moving back full-time to Hong Kong in the late Nineties, then embarking on my career in luxury and fashion, here are the formative experiences and inspiring individuals that have shaped me.
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Tough love
I moved with my mom and elder sisters to Victoria, British Columbia in 1975 not speaking a word of English. I was enrolled at all-boys private school Glenlyon Preparatory School, which had less than 200 students. When my mom drove me there on my first day, she told me, “You are the only Chinese student in the whole school: you will be bullied. Just don’t be the first to hit someone.” True to her prediction, at the end of that first day, I was approached by three boys who cornered me and taunted me. One of them struck me and I fell to the ground. I was about to hit him back and before I could, all three were flung off of me by the biggest kid in the class, named Lex Milton. From that day, Lex and I became best friends.
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