The document profiles fashion designer Vera Wang and includes details about her background and career highlights such as being a former figure skater and editor at Vogue magazine before starting her own bridal wear company, designing dresses for celebrities, and her commercial success in bridal and ready-to-wear fashion through her balance of modern and traditional designs.
1. WHO AM I?
Matthew Vital
FS31012: Current Designers
Winter, 2012
2. WHO AM I?
• June 27, 1949, NYC • 1971, Graduation
• Education – Senior Editor, Vogue
– Chapin School • 1987,
– School of American Ballet – Accessories Design
– Sarah Lawrence College Director, Ralph Lauren
– Sorbonne, Paris
• Art & History
• Former figure skater
– 1968 & 1969, US National
Championships
– 5th, junior pairs with James
Stuart
3. • 1989,
– Arthur Becker
– Wedding Dress, $10,000
• 1990, Bridal Industry
– Boutique
• Guy Laroche, Arnold
Scassi, Carolina Herrera,
Christian Dior
– Carlyle Hotel, NYC
– Sophisticated, detailed,
modern
4. Timeline (cont’d)
• 1993 • 2006,
– Chinese American Planning – Andre Leon Talley Lifetime
Council's Honoree of the Year Achievement Award by the
Award Savannah College of Art Design
• 1994, – Kohl’s
– Nancy Kerrigan (Olympics) • 2009
– Girl Scout Council's Woman of – US Figure Skating Hall of Fame
Distinction Award – Considered contestant Dancing
– Elected member of CFDA with the Stars
• 2000 • 2010
– Couture-inspired RTW – Leadership in the Arts Award by
• 2001 the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian
American Association
– Fragrance & wedding guide
– Identities, the Harvard
• 2002, association's annual charity
– China and Crystal Collection fashion show
• 2005
– CFDA, “Womenswear Designer of
the Year”
5. HIGH-PROFILE FIGURE IN THE FASHION WORLD
• Commercial Success
– Balance: modern designs
& traditional elegance
• Celebrities
– Halle Berry, Goldie
Hawn, CharlizeTheron,
Anjelica Huston, Meg
Ryan
6. • Wedding
– Mariah Carey, Hilary Duff,
Jennifer Garner, Kim
Kardashian (3)
– Movies
• Sex and the City, Bride
Wars
• Movies & TV Appearances
– First Daughter, The
September Issue
– Gossip Girl, Keeping up
with the Kardashians, Ugly
Betty
32. HARPER’S BAZAAR, FEBRUARY 2012
“New York for me is about
work.
If LA were to become a West
Coast version of that, I'd
shoot myself.
The climate, the lifestyle… it
really fits as the yin to my
New York yang.
New York is all about big
dinners and cocktail
parties.
LA is about intimacy and
quiet.”
