Story & Lesson Highlights with Emmy Wu of Atlanta

We recently had the chance to connect with Emmy Wu and have shared our conversation below.

Emmy , really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: Have any recent moments made you laugh or feel proud?
The recent moment that has made me proud, was I entered this competition for style icon for Elton John and I entered 4 times lol . Today I finally made it in. I looked at my phone and was like, I entered 4 times lol ! Then I ran across the kitchen floor cried and smiled.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Emmy Wu, born in Pittsburgh and now making moves in Atlanta, and I’m the founder of Fluid Life Clothing — a brand that fuses streetwear grit with fearless self-expression.

Fluid Life is more than just fashion; it’s a movement. From diamond-out jackets and custom crochet pieces to 3D-printed pop-out designs, every item is built to stand out, empower, and tell a story. Collections like “I’m So Baby” and “I’m So Baby Boy” embody confidence, rebellion, and fluidity — blurring the line between streetwear and wearable art.

My mission with Fluid Life is simple: to create clothing that moves with you, reflects your energy, and pushes boundaries. It’s about living boldly, expressing freely, and wearing your power unapologetically.

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
I feel what breaks peoples bonds is that the communication and trying to control every single thing about a person. We all come different. Cloths of life, yet, when we meet it should not be on the looks and money or job or what u drive it should be on the voice and mental state and heart space. What keeps people in a restorative relationship accountability of both parties and realizing we both are not perfect but together in flow we can be.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
I feel that suffering taught me to be grateful, merciful success sometimes does not teach you to be grateful sometimes success depending on the person can be more greed. They don’t see the blessing. They don’t see the humbleness in it. It’s like they want more. They want more so success could never teach me the gratitude, the humbleness The pursuit of happiness being in and suffering see to me. I don’t wanna use the word suffering too much because we use that word as a failure, but to suffer is to find wholeness to suffer is to find fight to suffer is to find the real you and you end up, decoding yourself and not too many people can do it and because of how they was raised a lot of people give up and then they’re not here no more so for me I just use suffering and switched it into power where are success can take you and lead you back to suffering if you don’t do right by it so each word has painfulness and lessons within it so with success, I can just say that it shows you that you completion, but you’re not completed so I feel that success could never show me how to decode myself. It will show me my completion, my finishing end of my work but yet I’m not done.

So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
Is the public version of me the real Yes I could say that I have not changed. I feel the more levels I go up. I’m never gonna change. I think I might change my lanes. I might change the people that I do deal with accordingly, but I’ll keep the same friends because I always keep saying I don’t want new friends. I don’t need certain thing’s I’m comfortable with who I am. I’ll never change my Facebook page no matter how high I go never changed my Instagram or anything. I’m gonna be mean no matter what I always have the saying that TMZ ain’t gonna be able to tell on me because I’ll tell on myself so it is the real me all day every day.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. When do you feel most at peace?
When do I feel most peace? I feel the most peace when I’m creating. I feel the most peace when everybody’s in order and I don’t have to be bothered, but I feel the most peace ultimate peace when I’m at the water I’m also a spiritual practitioner and I feel always at peace when I can Listen to meditation when I can create and just be free with it I think my creativity and music and creating is my sanctuary and the most peace. I feel also is when I see others Free from whatever they’re feeling as well.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: EmmyWu_neonicsol

Image Credits
Scott hart Photography