[1] Cheung was born in Nottingham, England, to parents who had emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1960s.
[2] They ran a Chinese restaurant in Nottingham, and when she was nine started running a butchers shop in Hull.
They then moved to Coventry, where the family lived in a Chinese takeaway for most of her teen years.
[4] At the age of 16, she won a scholarship at the London College of Fashion to study to become an artist.
She subsequently worked in advertising as an Art Director before switching to freelance design.