Yu Mei designer Jessie Wong has welcomed her first baby, Bolton ‘Bobby’ Wong Fisher. The baby inspired her new Bobby Bag, debuted at Australian Fashion Week. Wong is excited about Wellington’s retail future despite challenges facing the city.
For followers of luxury handbag brand Yu Mei, the debut of the Bobby Bag at this year’s Australian Fashion Week was a preview of a special and more personal bundle about to be welcomed. There were signs Yu Mei founder and owner Jessie Wong’s first baby wanted to make his way into the world during the shows. But he was a ”good wee boy” and Bolton Wong Fisher, Bobby for short, was born in Wellington the day after Fashion Week wrapped, and his namesake bag had been launched on the runway.
He slept through Wong’s sitdown interview with the Herald about preparing for motherhood, being a business owner, and why the capital is still a great city despite some people’s view that it’s dying. When Wong found out she was pregnant, she made plans for the first months of motherhood to go either way - to be “completely out of it” or have an “easy baby”. Currently, 4-week-old Bobby is in the latter category.
These plans meant being willing to hand over aspects of the business she founded in 2015 to her team. However, it’s not the first time Wong has stepped back as Yu Mei has grown. “I used to make all of the bags myself and so when I handed over production, that was a moment where it was like letting go of something and .
