![]() ![]() Kent Ho and Emily Lam-Ho are one of Hong Kong’s most glamorous power couples. “Personal style is a journey with many chapters and it evolves with time.” “I’m somewhat of a paradox in that I’m masculine in my approach, especially in business, but at the same time I am also very much in touch with my softer, girly side.” As for her taste in fashion, “I don’t like to have regrets,” she says. “Though youthful in spirit, I’m actually an old soul and naturally intuitive,” she says. ![]() Her endowment of the lead curatorial position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City has positioned her as a lifetime power player thanks to the industry’s obsession with the Met Gala. Based in Shanghai, she is the founder and CEO of Yu Holdings, which invests in lifestyle and technology companies with a millennial focus, and is fast becoming a major patron of fashion at museums around the world. Her one piece of business advice is this: “Do not ever give up and take fear out of the equation.”īorn in Zhejiang, Yu became interested in business at an early age-her father, Jingyuan Yu, is founder of the Mengtian Group, the largest wooden door manufacturer in Asia. She’s the force behind Kuala Lumpur hotspots including Greyhound Café in Bukit Bintang, and Sushi Ryu and Bar Shake in Platinum Park. Tan’s investments in startups like Goxip, the Hong Kong-based ‘shoppable Instagram’ for fashion and beauty products, and the La Juiceria Group have also flourished. The soft-spoken heiress to Malaysia’s Berjaya Corporation’s fortune gives her followers a glimpse of her jet-setting lifestyle, while her marriage to another heir to a Malaysian business legacy, SM Faliq Nasimuddin of Naza Group, certainly adds to the allure.īut, like her tycoon father Tan Sri Vincent Tan, she has demonstrated a keen business acumen behind her luxe image, having played a key role in developing the group’s Four Seasons Kyoto and other properties. Chryseis Tan describes the New Asia as “bold, innovative and an even playing field where anyone can achieve success,” though she has often expressed bafflement at her own popularity. ![]()
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