When was vera wang born

They encouraged them to pursue academic and athletic excellence, and to have integrity in what they did. She taught her daughter about style, and they enjoyed going to Paris fashion shows together.

In addition to clothes and ballet lessons, Wang loved ice skating. After receiving a pair of ice skates one Christmas, she began ice skating lessons at the age of eight. Always the competitor, she won her first regional championship at Her day usually ended with more practice.

However, balancing school and ice skating became too much for her. There was not enough time to study and train, and this led to the greatest disappointment of her life; she chose to give up ice skating. Wang recalled that after making this decision, she became depressed and moved to Paris.

It was there that she seriously considered pursuing a career in fashion. Wang returned to school and earned a degree in art history in , but a career in fashion was her dream. Wang took the opportunity to study and learn all she could about the fashion industry. Her hard work quickly paid off; Wang was named fashion editor at Vogue at the age of She primarily served as "sittings" editor, the person in charge of the editorial fashion spreads that made up the heart of the magazine.

The work and the lifestyle were intense. Wang often worked seven days a week, and had little time for romance. She did enjoy the party scene, and went to Studio 54, a New York City hotspot in the late s. A tired Wang took a leave of absence from Vogue and went to Paris for two years. Deciding she wanted to do something different, Wang left Vogue after 16 years, and in , went to work for Ralph Lauren, where she was a designer for accessories.

With a less frenzied pace at Ralph Lauren, Wang had more time for a personal life. Wang originally trained as a figure skater, but when she failed to make the US Olympic team, she entered the fashion industry.

Wang worked as a senior fashion editor at Vogue for sixteen years. She left Vogue in after failing to be promoted to editor-in-chief and joined Ralph Lauren as a design director.

After working at Ralph Lauren for two years, Wang left to establish her own company in Seeing an untapped niche and with financial help from her father, Wang opened a luxury salon in the Carlyle Hotel in New York to design and sell wedding dresses that were made in the tradition of Parisian couture.

Her parents were from Shanghai and settled in the United States in the s. Her father owned a company of medicines and mother used to work for United Nations as a translator. She has one younger brother as well. Moreover, she went to Sarah Lawrence College and attained a degree in art history. From the age of six, Wang started figure skating and while she was in high school competed in the United States Figure Skating Championship in When Wang failed to become a part of the US Olympics team, she diverted her attention towards the fashion industry.

In the early s, Wang served as a senior editor of fashion for Vogue but left the job once she was rejected the post of editor-in-chief. Then she became a director of design at Ralph Lauren for two years.