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 Making a unique and incentive style filled
with youthful sophistication, fashion icon Vera Wang offers to its clients
avant-garde and elegant lifestyle collections. The American most influential, especially,
wedding dress designer is well-known around the globe for her cutting edge
bridal and ready to wear items that meet the inherent fashion demands of modern
young women.
A celebrity Professional:
Vera Wang, a distinguished fashion designer
who is well-known for her, among other specialties, wedding gown collection,
was born in the USA in 1949. Born in an affluent family, Wang attended at the renowned
‘Chapin School' as well as the ‘Sorbonne' located in Paris. She took her
graduation from the Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history.
Wang's mother was the prime influence on
her fashion design style as her mother sometimes took her to the fashion shows.
Besides, she trained as a figure skater and competed the U.S. Figure Skating
Championships held in 1968.
Discovering her own love for design, Wang
entered in the fashion world as a senior fashion editor, the youngest fashion
editor ever aged 23, for ‘Vogue', a monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine,
holding the post more than sixteen years. Later, she joined as a design
director of women's accessories for ‘Ralph Lauren' where Wang interacted with
the world's leading designers and brought their visions and sense of style to
the world.
In 1990, Vera Wang set off her own luxury
salon at the esteemed Carlyle Hotel in New York City which featured her bridal
collection and earned praise from the fashion elite for its luxurious fabrics,
exquisite detailing and modern interpretation of classic lines.
Apart from evening gowns and bridesmaid
dresses, the brand name has also been expanded through its fragrance, jewelry, eyewear,
footwear and house ware collections. Vera Wang, however, has a small number of
boutiques placed in New York, Boston, Beverly Hills, and Waikiki.
Appeal for creative Collections!
Having a high level of consumers' appeal,
Vera Wang always thirsts for an artistic modern, luxurious design style and
couture-like quality in its collections.
Along with manufacturing the world's top
bridal collections, the house has also go-ahead for manufacture and distribution
of fragrance and beauty-related products like eyewears, china, crystals, silver
and gifts, fine jewelry, suites, fine papers, intimate apparel and mattresses.
A recently introduced Vera Wang's Lavender
Label Collection is one of the newest looks included embellished top and slim
Pants, a perfect combination of sophistication and elegance, layered cardigans
and appealing dresses with vivid colors that could be worn at the most stylish
and hip social gathering .
In 2002, Vera Wang started on to enter the
home fashion industry and only after six months at the stores, its China and
Crystal collection produced three of the top ten best-selling patterns at
bridal registries across the United States.
However, the luxury collections designed by
Vera Wang are certainly expensive ranging, most of its dresses, from $2000 to
$7000 while many non-celebrity middle-class brides spend on Vera Wang
bisque-colored bridesmaid dresses found between $200 and $1000.
Designer captures world attention:
Bringing a wonderful feminine design
sensibility to fashion, the Wang group designs, markets and distributes
collections of women's bridal, maids and ready-to-wear under the Vera Wang
brand name that are epitome of luxury, infinitely sophisticated and always
modern.
Wang designed costumes for a number of
skaters, to illustrate, Nancy Kerrigan and Michelle Kwan while the silver
medalist Kerrigan wore a unique design, a simple white skating dress with
illusion sleeves, of Vera's for the 1994 Olympics captured the world attention.
In addition, Wang made wedding gowns for
many celebrities like Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Thalia, Jessica Simpson,
Avril Lavigne, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Garner, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman,
Holly Hunter, Campbell Brown, Jeri Ryan, and Karenna Gore.
Likewise, she also designs for the
characters of various episodes like - A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding, The Prom (television
show Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Wang has recently designed the two-piece
uniforms which worn by the Philadelphia Eagles cheerleaders, professional
American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Awards for outstanding works:
Vera Wang is widely considered one the esteemed
designers in the world while she has got a number of awards at the same time for
her splendid works.
In 2005, the prestigious Council of Fashion
Designers of America (CFDA) named Vera Wang as Womenswear Designer of the Year.
Wang was awarded the Andre Leon Talley
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
In 2006, Campbell Brown, Weekend Today's
co-anchor, and Dan Senor, a FOX News analyst, wore Vera Wang gown in their
marriage ceremony.
Moreover, Wang wrote a book titled ‘Vera
Wang on Weddings' which was released in 2001 by Harper Collins, a publishing
company owned by News Corporation.
Md. Asraful Alam
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