Name:Jean-Paul Chan, Hong Kong Fashion Designer.
Age: Anything from late teens to menopausal.
Occupation: Fashion designer. Sometimes just a student who designs for contests, more often a full-time professional designer of clothing.
Job description (subjective): 'Darling, I like to think of my work as an extension of my personality, my artistic essence, my very being. Some call them clothes but I think of them as chapters in an ever-evolving novel of life and beauty. I call my latest collection Wayward Martyrs at the Gates of Heaven.
Job description (objective): Jean-Paul basically makes T-shirts and baby romper suits for the Peruvian market. Thanks to his tie-in with a particularly industrious factory over the border, he makes good money at it. Good enough, in fact, to play around and put out some pretentious twaddle once a year for Hong Kong Fashion Week.
Public persona: Jean-Paul is constantly wheeled out for interviews in which he assesses socialites' dress sense, re-designs Lavender Patten's wardrobe and judges hat-making competitions. He writes newspapers columns and is constantly being interviewed by feature and fashion writers.