When Jane Lu’s parents emigrated to Australia to give their daughter a better chance in life, they probably imagined her becoming a well-paid corporate executive – not the founder of a multi-million dollar fashion empire.
The only child of Chinese cleaners Queenie, 61, and Frank Lu, 67, fulfilled their wishes by training as an accountant, but soon felt stifled by the straight-laced rigidity of Sydney’s financial world.
‘I wasn’t enjoying it and because of that, I knew I wouldn’t be