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" I will never see myself as a businessman. I'm a designer. I have to be true to what I believe. "

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" If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life. "