Spinning a real good yarn

Hong Kong

Edith Cheung remembers her first experiment with textiles.

"As a child, I was quite weak, so I was mostly indoors," the Hong Kong costume designer explains. "My grandma was always knitting and my mom made dresses for her three daughters. So I always had scraps of fabric and wool to play with. I remember hand-stitching a small doll out of the scraps. One day, I decided that I should take it apart as it was getting dirty. But since I laid the pieces out on the balcony without securing them, they all blew away!"