Isabelle Wen had been a student of the great Chinese painting master Ou Hao-nien for eight years. Even though her paintings were continually improving, she discovered that they "increasingly resembled the teacher's style." It was then that she got the idea of switching to clothing design.
曾當了國畫大師歐豪年八年入室弟子的溫慶珠，當年雖然畫得愈來愈好，但是她也發現，「怎麼愈畫愈像老師的風格」，才興起轉做服裝設計的念頭。