5 years after...Time passed, many things changed. Kay's family heritage was broken up as a results of business rivalry. Yan Lan and Kay maintained a close distance but respected each other's choices to focus on their career. Kay was dedicated to rebuilding his family business and in that had made many good friends along the way. He had groomed a team of young and vibrant talent, a promising management team who is able to drive the company with innovative ideas that was key in diversifying their portfolios and generating diversified revenue stream. Their family business under his oversight expanded beyond just music and entertainment but ventured into retail and consumer goods including designer fashion, jewellery and bags as well as food and beverages.
"Kay you are really talented, I heard these were hand designed labels that you made. Tell us a bit more what made you venture into this space" Kay was at an interview session with the reporters covering his recent launch on the latest design series.
"I'd always wanted to try my hands on fashion as my aunt use to own her own line and it provided space to play, create and simply just broadcast your ideas for people to wear.
"Were there any specific inspirations behind some of the designer series that you like .... we do observe you have quite a unique series that was launched in the last one year... perhaps tell us about these few ones."
Kay was interviewed as part of an international designer's magazine and they were referring to some of the series he had launched asking for further clarification what was his idea behind some of these design. There were a few specific designs which intrigue them; a single rose version, a shooting star, firefly, an eternity sign, all of which had hit the market setting the trend and seeing the beautifully hand crafted designer wear from clothes to bags to jewellery ranges. They wanted to know the inspiration behind it.
In addition he had also officially launch an art lover's hang out place where it blends in an art place into a common working space where art lovers can hang out working on their pieces while enjoying hand crafted coffee and tea with home made recipes for some light snacks with a reading area for quiet reading and writing. The revenue collected from this place including art pieces that were contributed for charity auction help fund local schools. It also offers selected scholarships for promising student into performing art schools.
It was always his dream to be able to do that.
"The designer series I had launched was based on some thoughts I had while ago while I was traveling sometime back. I like creating some of these ideas in my book and when I look back at it I realised perhaps it's time to let this ideas come to live.
"The single red rose represents "I love you" simply saying it either 我爱你 or je t'aime or 사랑해 or te quiero or te amo in different languages can also be represented differently in colours, drawing, painting, song, melody, dance not necessarily in words.... I thought sometimes when a person hope to express it out beyond just words, it could in a form of a gift or simply just wearing it. Going on a date and showing it , expressing it in what you wear together or singularly it would be quite sweet or even just as a gift to a good friend or a partner." Kay explained
"I see and how about this the shooting star, or star or night skies series?"
Kay smiled and said "well this is an interesting one...I used to have a very good friend which I hang out with in my younger days and when we were young we used to talk a lot about our dreams and sometimes we would be talking through till late nights under the night skies sometimes filled with miraculous glittering stars. Back then the entertainment industry which I was personally involved in had many expectations but we were bold to dream about how we see our future lies a ahead.... I remember, we look up at the sky one of those night and there was a shooting star and we both made a wish together. We are both successful in our own areas as we look back and I wanted to just commemorate that into a designer series as my spring board" Kay responded
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