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Great pride

These are productive times for founder Jessie Wong and her team at luxury leather-goods label Yu Mei. Among the many irons in their fire, they’re currently working on their Autumn and Winter 21 ranges, taking their already robust commitment to sustainability even further by creating collections and colourways that run together like chapters in a story, allowing you to build a wardrobe of bags that’ll never go out of style. We spoke to Jessie about her work life and philosophy.

The past couple of years has been busy for Yu Mei — what have been some of the highlights? I consider us lucky that we get to come to work every day, but one of

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