Vogue China editor’s daughter gets a fashion awakening
- Angelica Cheung’s daughter Hayley started appreciating high-end fashion after a tidy-up of her mum’s wardrobes, explains dad Mark Graham
- She had already spent her entire life around fashion and attended many shows, but had largely been ambivalent about brands like Gucci and Dior until then
It took an extended Beijing lockdown to make my daughter begin to truly appreciate the inherent style, class and quality of high-end fashion.
With Vogue China editor-in-chief Angelica Cheung as her mum, Hayley has, of course, spent her entire life in and around the fashion world, sitting on the front row at Chanel, Dior and Burberry shows with the kind of studied nonchalance that is de rigueur for prime-position regulars.
She regularly encounters designers Victoria Beckham, Jason Wu and Alber Elbaz, movie stars Zhang Ziyi, Vicky Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun (who taught her a few martial arts moves in our living room) and supermodels Liu Wen and Du Juan.
Reorganisation of a Vogue editor’s wardrobe involves dealing with a lot of clobber. My role was as an unpaid labourer, transporting dresses, coats and bags to an area designated for appraisal. Angelica has been editor-in-chief of Vogue China for 15 years, which is a total of 30 seasons, meaning she has a fabulous and extensive collection of duds, with some of the longer-owned items now qualifying as vintage by dint of their great (in fashion terms) age.
