There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.

My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.