In recent years, Stephanie has devoted social media posts to a company called 7th Street Swim, a clothing brand “where downtown cool meets uptown quality,” as its Instagram profile touts. The website listed on the profile is currently down, but 7th Street Swim is — or, at least, was — a luxury sustainable swimwear label that Stephanie co-founded, according to an Authority Magazine profile posted online in January 2021.
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Stephanie gave some of her life story to the magazine, saying that she was born in Hong Kong and that she spent part of her childhood in China. Her family eventually relocated to Seattle, Wash., and she attended the University of Washington. After graduating from the school in 2018, she moved to New York City, where she worked for a Big Four accounting firm.
But Stephanie felt “like a cog in a very large machine” in that line of work, so she quit her job and pursued her dream “to become a household name in sustainable and ethical apparel,” as she told Authority.
“So this is the first step,” she added. “I’m enjoying every second.”
