In the hot searches on the topics of "people's livelihood" and "stars", the names of designers who have always been low-key rarely appear. But a few days ago, there was a person who broke this routine. She is the legendary Chinese. Designer Vera Wang. However, the hot discussion about her has nothing to do with her talent, but her age-defying appearance.
In the photo, she has firm skin, a slender figure, and thick long hair that "bald" young people envy. Many netizens said, "When I was 17 years old, I never had such a figure", "It turns out that some people can really be beautiful all their lives"...
With her good condition, Vera Wang, who was born in the 40s, successfully dominated the May Day period. Hot search list. However, she can do more than just look. Compared with the new labels of "Eternal Goddess", she also has a more famous name: "Queen of Wedding Dresses". How famous is it? Let's put it this way, whether you are in the fashion industry or not, you must have heard this sentence:
"Vera Wang's wedding dress is wanted by unmarried people, missed by divorced people, and remarried people are glad to have it again."
Vera Wang 2016 Spring
Even celebrities such as Beckham Beckham and Ivanka fell in love with her wedding dress.
However, this is not the end. Compared with titel, who was born in a well-known family and is a Chinese-American designer, she got married at the age of 39, started a business at the age of 40, found a hot boyfriend at the age of 63, and at the age of 71, her status is comparable to that of a girl. All her experiences have made her life a "joyful drama".
Today, I would like to talk to you, both inside and outside, about the cheating life of Vera Wang, a top legend in the design circle...
The Upper East Side socialite who "slipped out" of her comfort zone
In 1949, Vera Wang was born in New York Manhattan A wealthy Chinese family in the East District, the family has a good background from their grandparents' generation. Grandfather Wu Junsheng was a warlord during the Republic of China. His father Wang Qingcheng was an entrepreneur who graduated from MIT. His business was prosperous. His mother Wu Chifang once worked at the United Nations. translate.
Vera Wang went to Paris with her mother to visit fashion houses and watch shows since she was a child, and she also inherited her mother's aesthetics: "My mother is very beautiful, a woman who knows how to dress up. She is very advanced, and she also taught me proportion, personality and free creativity. "
Like many orthodox ladies, she also participated in the "Clion Ladies Ball", which has a very high threshold.
But Vera Wang is not very interested in the so-called celebrity life. She did not care about being a "rich second generation". She has been "risking her life" to get out of her comfort zone since she was a child. Until she became a "late bloomer" and became a top designer, her experience It can be said that he has been defeated repeatedly...-. -
The "Wedding Dress Queen"'s first failure experience was when she was a professional athlete.
At the age of 8, Vera Wang began to practice figure skating. She practices from dawn to sunset every day. She has been practicing hard for 13 years and has been featured in Sports Illustrated. Even her family members think she should be a champion. As a result, she lost the U.S. Figure Championships and was not selected for the Olympic national team. Coupled with the age limit for athletes, she had to leave the ice rink.
However, there are disappointments and gains. The experience of a professional athlete has honed Vera Wang's perseverance.
"In life, when I encounter some failures, or even many failures, I can immediately move to the next goal. If it still fails, I will move on to the next one. Because you may need more ground now than in the past. To reality."
probably grew up following her mother in the fashion industry, and was very familiar with luxury goods. So after "falling" on the ice rink, she switched to the fashion industry. In her sophomore year, Vera Wang was studying in Paris while working part-time in a YSL store. There, she met the editor-in-chief of "Vogue" magazine, and then joined "Vogue" as an assistant, starting her second career.
It turns out that the Queen was born for the fashion industry.From retiring to becoming the youngest fashion director in the history of "Vogue", it only took her 4 years (23 years old) to achieve this, and this record has not been broken until now. Regrettably, at the age of 36, she lost the competition with the fashion devil Anna Wintour for the position of editor-in-chief. She realized that staying was just a repetition of her previous job, so she chose to leave the place where she had worked for 16 years.
Before starting her own business, Vera Wang also "fell in love" with RL briefly. After leaving Vogue, Ralph Lauren came to her and invited her to be the creative director. The new job is different from the previous model of creating fashion pictures. This time she is really creating fashion products. She is exposed to new things while working. It is very relaxing and interesting for Vera Wang. After two transformations, the fatigue of middle age hit her face. She originally planned to work here until old age, but she did not expect that her wedding would disrupt her "retirement" plan.
When she was 39 years old, Vera Wang planned to marry her boyfriend after 10 years of dating. As a result, she traveled all over New York but could not find a wedding dress that suited her. Traditional wedding dresses are all fluffy princess dresses, which obviously does not fit her "cool girl" personality. The queen had no choice but to spend 10,000 US dollars to make a wedding dress herself. However, she shocked everyone at the wedding and received five stars from relatives and friends. Good reviews. Her father saw the business opportunity and offered to be a "financier dad" to support her in making wedding dresses.
This was a surprise to Vera Wang. After all, her father did not think that tailoring was a serious job and did not support her going to a design college to study clothing. She also interned in a fashion magazine, which cut off the family's financial resources. Furthermore, after working hard in the workplace for many years, Vera Wang feels that she is getting older and still wants to work in a more stable job.
At the beginning, she was bargaining with her father, "I usually wear T-shirts, so I want to design T-shirts, but if I want to design T-shirts, he will not invest in me."
However, considering that "the funder father" "Business vision, Vera Wang chose to "compromise". Finally, he joined the entrepreneurial army at the age of 40. With 4 million funded by his father, he opened a wedding dress customization shop with the same name on Madison Avenue and started working as a designer.
The Queen of Wedding Dresses also has a difficult history of entrepreneurship
When the custom shop started, she got up at 5 o'clock every morning, received customers, selected fabrics, and packed boxes all in person, because the peak of her creation was in the dead of night, so others after returning home During her leisure time, she continues to work. It is even more common to have dinner with my two daughters casually in the office.
Vera Wang's daughters
Her experience as an athlete made Vera Wang like to wear T-shirts and leggings as early as the 1990s, which was 20 years ahead of today's young people. Like her own dressing style, she removes the gorgeousness and complexity of old-style wedding dresses in her designs, leaving only simplicity, fashion and avant-garde.
also went against the tradition by adding black, pink and other colors to make the wedding dress less monotonous.
Vera Wang worked quietly for 4 years, designing competition uniforms for American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, and then everyone knew that there was a new fashion designer in New York.
However, to be serious, her first heavyweight client should be her best friend Sharon Stone , the Golden Globe Actress who was famous for her sexiness when she was young. In 1998, Sharon Stone was not very famous at the time. She wore a cheap shirt from Gap and a lilac skirt designed by Vera Wang to attend the Oscars. For the first time, someone combined fast fashion and customization. A's beautiful red carpet image became famous instantly, and Vera Wang also became popular.
With the blessing of insiders, more and more people come to her to make wedding dresses: Clinton's daughter, Trump's daughter, let her arrange wedding dresses. Among celebrities, Vera Wang has one of the biggest fans. Well, Beaver, Kardashian, Sister Niu, Avril ... probably cover most of the entertainment industry.
Because of his identity as a Chinese designer, he has a special understanding of the Chinese market. Vera Wang has also gained a lot of celebrities and wealthy clients in China, such as Carina Lau, Coco Lee, Tang Wei , Yao Chen , Michelle Reis , etc. She can't stop her popularity.
For celebrities, the dresses designed by Vera Wang are simply the most reliable "safety card". Wearing them on the Oscar red carpet will definitely not win the "worst costume award."
In order to help actresses successfully "avoid lightning", Vera Wang also worked hard:
"Part of my responsibility is to be as creative as possible. These works must not be laughed at or ignored by everyone. The worst thing is when someone When you raise questions, you blame it all on the star who wore this dress. "
Before the age of 40, Vera Wang's career was not smooth. After transforming into a designer, she finally reached the pinnacle of her life and won awards:
2004 In 2005, she was selected as one of the "100 Women Who Influence New York" by the Daily News in New York; in 2005, she won the "Best Women's Fashion Designer Award" at the 24th CFDA Awards, drawing attention to American fashion. Chinese-American designer; at the age of 64, he was pleased to receive the CFDA's most important "Lifetime Achievement Award", which was awarded to him by his former boss, Ralph Lauren.
Everyone loves Vera Wang’s wedding dress. Some people even say that they won’t get married if they can’t have a wedding dress designed by her. However, if you want to truly understand Vera Wang's works, you should also know her view of love: love should be regarded as an art, and wedding dresses are noble works of art that explain love.
At the age of 63, this woman made an astonishing decision to divorce her husband of 23 years, on the grounds that she no longer loved her enough...
Two months after the divorce, she met her 36-year-old junior in the figure skating circle. Fresh meat Ivan Lysacek , and soon entered the love mode. It is said that the height of male figure skaters is generally controlled at 1.7 meters. This fresh man is 1.88 meters tall. He has won the Olympic champion and has become one of the most beautiful champions in the history of figure skating.
During the seven years that they have been in love, Vera Wang likes to boldly show her love in front of the camera, such as taking her boyfriend to attend various events, or inadvertently sweet interactions. The Queen gives her boyfriend a "touch on the head" and is a domineering president. The text is nothing more than that.
However, this relationship has never been optimistic. Everyone who eats melons can see that this fresh meat is obviously looking for a long-term meal ticket, but Vera Wang doesn't care about other people's criticism and enjoys the sweetness of love. Even after the two broke up, she still lived a chic life, maintaining the attitude of a fashion queen, focusing on making beautiful clothes, working out on time, and posting photos of her life and street photos on social networks. She was so beautiful that everyone who saw her It’s so sore...
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In the eyes of outsiders, Vera Wang can achieve both good figure and career, as easily as taking pictures, but behind her "effortless" appearance is her extreme self-discipline. After decades of hard work, Vera Wang has no intention of taking a break. At the age of 70+, she maintains the habit of getting up at 7 o'clock and eating three meals a day. She does not eat high-calorie foods and only drinks water. Even if she is busy with work all day, she still finds time to exercise.
As an influential public figure, in addition to enjoying life, she has not forgotten to fulfill her social responsibilities. During the epidemic, she called on companies to produce non-medical masks to support frontline medical workers. I also use my entertainment spirit to help everyone unlock ways to avoid boredom in home isolation. It is really full of positive energy.
However, as successful as a queen, there will also be times of anxiety:
"In the industry I am in, many people are younger than me, and some are the same age as my daughter. It is not easy to do anything. Life is not perfect, but Always try your best to do your best, which is also part of human nature. "
What makes the queen persist from a design novice to the present is her entrepreneurial belief, which can actually be found out from the bride image she created. . For example, Chelsea Clinton , Vera Wang once called her crazy:
"She is a very humble girl who loves fashion. She is also very smart and knows what she wants."
Mr. Wang believes that Vera Wang can It has received unanimous praise from both inside and outside the industry. In addition to her wonderful designs, her tenacity and spirit of breaking through limitations are indispensable elements.
Therefore, even if a girl does not wear a Vera Wang wedding dress, if she can bravely be herself, work hard for her dreams, and follow this belief, she will definitely be like the "Wedding Dress Queen" and gain the life she wants.
(information and pictures come from the Internet)
