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Most read of 2023: China’s release of an American CIA spy, the life of a Hong Kong fashion designer who dressed Michelle Yeoh – our top long reads

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From the plight of Abul Bajandar, known as “tree man”, to a look at the life of Hong Kong fashion designer Barney Cheng, a reminder of eight of the most-read long features published in the South China Morning Post’s Post Magazine in 2023. 1. More turmoil for “tree man” After his story went global, Bangladeshi … Read more

He dressed Michelle Yeoh and Deng Xiaoping’s daughters: Barney Cheng on the super-rich, family, and finding God

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I never knew my uncle and aunts’ names, I knew them by numbers. Officially, we have 26 uncles and 18 aunts. My grand-uncle had four wives including a concubine and two more unofficially. Most of the kids came from his side. Full house I was born in 1966 in Hong Kong, the second of four … Read more

Vera Wang called her, Barney Cheng said ‘do your own thing’: Hong Kong fashion designer Vivian Luk on starting out, moving on from bridal gowns, and cancer

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“Seeing my dad as an interior designer, it was more natural for me to think about a career in the arts. I applied [to Parsons, in New York], didn’t get in, so I went to the Fashion Institute of Technology first, and then applied again and finally got into Parsons.” Luk and Emily Lam-Ho, the … Read more