Simon Gao was educated abroad in Singapore, Switzerland and New Zealand, before returning home to China to study fashion brand management at the Raffles Design Institute. In 2012 he launched his eponymous label SIMONGAO, which later earned him Esquire Magazine’s “Style Designer of the Year” award. He was later included in Vogue Italia’s New Talents List. In 2013 he held his first runway show at Paris Fashion Week, and has gone on to showcase his collections in Beijing, Shanghai, London, Paris and Hong Kong.