His parents were born in Shanghai and moved to the United States in the mid-1940s. His mother worked as a translator at the United Nations. While his father has a drug company. Women born June 27, 1949 it earned an art history from Sarah Lawrence College.
Before plunging into the fashion industry, fond of sports Wang skating at age six. When in high school she competed in the 1968 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Having failed to enter the United States Olympic team to pursue his interest in fashion and the fashion industry.
In 1989, Wang was married to Arthur Becker, and now lives with their two daughters in Manhattan. Her husband is the CEO of information technology services firm, NaviSite.
First career women born in New York City in the fashion world is a senior fashion editor at Vogue magazine for seventeen years. Then in 1987, he declined the position at Vogue Editor In Chief is currently occupied by Anna Wintour and joined Ralph Lauren as design director for two years. He turned professional with his own design boutique opened at the Hotel Carlyle in New York City wedding dress distinctively.
The design of a globalVera Wang had designed the costumes skating athletes include Nancy Kerrigan, Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek. His work is often referenced in popular culture. In the television series Sex and the City, the character of Charlotte York wore a wedding dress Wang's work. Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson in Bride Wars film also wear a dress custom-made Vera Wang. Vera Wang designs never mentioned on the NBC television show, The West Wing in the episode "The Black Vera Wang".
Wang is also extending its brand through jewelry, perfume, sunglasses and household appliances. Month of June 2005, Wang won the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Womenswear Designer of the Year. One year later he was awarded the Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award Andra © from Savannah College of Art and Design.
Twenty years after opening its first bridal boutique, on 17 April 2010 he was awarded the Leadership in the Arts Award by the Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Association.
