This New Zealand originated designer (her birthplace is actually a very small rural area by Lake Dongting in China), who also used to live in Singapore as a child, didn't initially study fashion design. Her background is in painting, having a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Auckland (for one year) and Beijing (for three years). Claudia´s father is an art dealer, so consequently her career guideline naturally inclined towards on becoming a painter, but for her that wasn´t enough. She…
