Chongqing designer set to make dream debut in New York

In the highly competitive fashion industry, Yang Lu's rise seems almost effortless.

The 30-year-old fashion designer has been invited to New York Fashion Week to showcase his 2017 spring/summer collection at ArtBeam on Sept 12.

Surprisingly, it is just a year since he launched his clothing line Lu Yang by Yang Lu in his hometown Chongqing, a metropolis of 30 million people in Southwest China, far from the country's fashion centers of Beijing and Shanghai.