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Redefining

Feng Shui

with

Fashion

Feng shui expert Thierry Chow Yik-
tung shares how she brings fashion
and feng shui together and talks
about her feng shui philosophy.

By Angel Woo

Feng shui expert Thierry Chow Yik-tung. (Photo courtesy of Thierry Chow Yik-tung)
eng shui designer Thierry Chow “At that time, I was very lost and ter in Chow’s life. She then became a
Yik-tung’s iconic split dyed hair depressed. My dream of being a de- full-time apprentice of her father for
Fand sophisticated fashion style signer did not come true. One day five years and found new perspectives
makes her stand out from other feng when I was having a meal with my fa- to understand feng shui.
shui masters who wear traditional ther, I suddenly had a strong gut feel- “For the first few years, I followed
Tangzhuang all the time. ing that I had to learn feng shui from my father to meet his clients every day
The 33-year-old’s stylish look my dad. I felt like someone needed to and had to memorise all the signs and
shocks people that meet her. “Every- reform this tradition and provide a symbols in feng shui. It was not easy
one is so surprised and thinks I’m a new lens for people to understand it,” because I don’t have good memory,”
fashion designer. Almost every time, she says. she says with a laugh.
it takes them a while to accept that I From 2011, she started learning
am a feng shui designer,” she says. feng shui from her father, Chow Hon- Chow’s Unique Philosophy of
After studying illustration in To- ming, a renowned feng shui master in Feng Shui
ronto, she returned to Hong Kong in Hong Kong who boasts Citibank and After the five years of full-time ap-
2010, and worked as an art teacher in PCCW as his clients. prenticing under her father, Chow has
a private studio. The intuition brought a new chap- found her own way to redefine feng