Adrienne Wu  Adrienne Wu (born Adrian Francis Wu Ming Bong; August 9, 1990) is a Canadian fashion designer. In 2015, Wu came out as Neutrois on their YouTube channel and started going by gender neutral pronouns, in the same year they also began advocating with Toronto's Supporting Our Youth organization. Adrienne Wu was born in Burlington, Ontario. Wu credits most of Wu's inspiration from Wu's mother Jean Carole Wu. Wu's maternal grandmother Joan Davis was the head designer of Tai Ping Carpets Hong Kong in the 1960s. Adrienne Wu attended Hillfield Strathallan College and in late 2009 Wu attended the University of Toronto aiming to go into a career of sex therapy. They dropped out after one year. After creating Wu's portfolio, Wu was accepted by the Istituto Marangoni, but deferred the offer to start Wu's own company in September 2010. In 2011, Wu opened their first boutique in downtown Toronto. Wu learned to sew in 2009 after they dropped out of the University of Toronto. Wu's first break was being offered a position at MuchMusic in April 2010 as a Fashion Correspondent, where they worked for half a year. The same day that Wu was offered the position, they received an invitation to show their Fall Winter 2010 Collection at Vancouver Fashion Week. Wu was nineteen years old. Wu showed their very first time at Vancouver Fashion Week which kick started Wu's career as a fashion designer. Wu participated in the Spring-Summer 2011 Collection at the National Gallery of Canada during the Ottawa Fashion Week in October 2010. In the same month, Wu met Shawn Hewson of Project Runway Canada through the Alumni Association of Hillfield Strathallan College. Hewson mentored Wu for a year and introduced them to The Fashion Design Council of Canada. In 2009 artist Mehrnaz had illustrated a painting of one of Wu's earlier pieces. In November 2010, Wu was offered their first corporate collaboration with Allan Candy. Wu was commissioned to create dresses out of Allan Candy wrappers for an online advertisement. This was the first time Allan Candy had collaborated with a fashion designer and used the advertisement to launch the candy "DOPS". Quickly known as the 18-year-old-boy who modelled their own dresses, Prestel published Adrienne Wu internationally in a book called Style Diaries in February 2011. Wu was featured as "one of the most influential forces behind tomorrow's trends" – Simone Werle.