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Local fashion designer and retailer Carine Wang describes herself as a “tough cookie.” At 15, she learned sewing and pattern-making, and at 20, she left her native Singapore to attend the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, then affiliated with New York City’s Parsons School of Design.