Lawrence Xu, formerly known as Xu Jianshu, graduated from the Fashion Design Department of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts and went to Paris for further study. He is a proté gé of the famous French fashion designer and artist Francis Deloch Lang.

He was born in an architectural family, his father was an architect and his mother was a opera worker. He often follows his mother to watch opera singers sing and is deeply moved by the costumes on the stage. Maybe from then on, he became attached to non-genetic inheritance.