Julie was born and raised in Hong Kong by her Swiss parents before heading to Paris to study textile design at Duperré, and then to New York to explore product design at Parsons. After a few years working in New York, she came back to her Hong Kong roots to launch Latitude 22N and Julie & Jesse with her husband Jesse Mc Lin.Spending most of her life in Hong Kong has not only taught Julie how to perfectly dodge passers-by on the sidewalk, it has also given her a taste for the eclectic, for patchwork and for the bits and pieces that make up this incredible city. She finds inspiration in cultural crossovers to collate and collect the colors and patterns that fuel her thoughts.