Kevin Kwan

There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.

Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.