Celine Chen

Celine Chen (Traditional Chinese: 陳紅霞, Simplified Chinese: 陈红霞) is a Chinese fashion designer and pattern-maker.

Early life
Chen was born in Guangzhou, China in the late 1950s. She had a family of seven, of which she was the eldest. Celine had two brothers and sisters. Celine's family was quite poor in those days.

She was accepted into the Academy of Arts and Design in Tsinghua University in 1981, where she studied fashion design. Upon graduating, Chen found work as a fashion designer. She became a very famous designer in China between her university years and wrote a lot of newspaper articles when she could.

Career
Chen started her own fashion design company, which owned two other clothing brands, and she was the chairman of the Guangdong Fashion Designer Association. Chen was a college lecturer in fashion design for five years across three colleges, before emigrating to the United States.

She joined a clothing brand in New York as a pattern maker, improving her skills by working with Umberto Manzo, an Italian pattern-maker. She became a famous fashion designer as well as an American pattern-maker. After 30 years of experience in the fashion industry, Chen is working on a book in Chinese titled The Keys to U.S. Draping and Pattern Making Techniques.

Published Articles
Chen is a prolific writer and has written numerous articles to the newspapers and magazines. Her first book, "Women's Wear Designs in Shenzhen," was published in 1987. Below is a limited list of her published articles.
 * 1) 《多样化的时装》：陈红霞，吕荆如；《国外纺织技术》1986年15期. （Lu JR, Chen HX: "Diversified Fashion"; Textile Technology Overseas: #15, 1986.）
 * 2) 《人人有关的时装展览》：陈红霞，吕荆如；《国外纺织技术》1986年17期. （Lu JR, Chen HX: "Fashion Exhibit for Everyone"; Textile Technology Overseas: #17, 1986.）
 * 3) 《郊游便装设计》：陈红霞，吕荆如；《国外纺织技术》1986年18期. （Lu JR, Chen HX: "Designs for Casual Outdoor Wear"; Textile Technology Overseas: #18, 1986.）
 * 4) 《深圳女装设计》：陈红霞（编绘）；北京轻工业出版社，1987年9月；ISBN：750190166X（Chen HX:  "Women's Wear Designs in Shenzhen";  (written, edited and illustrated all by Hongxia Chen) Beijing Light Industrial Publishings; 1986.）