The journalist talks about how London’s neo-punks shaped her ‘anything goes’ sense of style and breaking into the fashion industry through blogging

Against all the odds, Lau recently opened a bubble tea cafe in Britain’s capital with a friend from Hong Kong

Hong Kong connection: I was born in 1983 in North London and grew up above a Chinese takeaway in Camden Town, run by my parents, who are originally from Hong Kong. I basically grew up watching neo-punks come in for their sweet and sour pork and absorbed that eclectic energy fairly early on.