News — March2020Profiles
Chinese imprints of Vogue, Elle and Cosmopolitan were plentiful at Cher Bai’s home in Shanghai
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And her mom, a vice-president of a major department store, set a stylish example in silk blouses and blazers from Celine and Chanel. But Bai was confined to a boarding school uniform while she was growing up. So by the time she started studying economics at the University of Toronto, she had a pent-up appetite for fashion that was voracious. “I went crazy,” she says of her weekly shopping sprees at Club Monaco, Aritzia and Zara. After graduating in 2014, Bai worked as a legal assistant in a law office, but her fashion consumption was still going full steam. “My...