Vera Wang’s career in the fashion industry is an inspiring one. She has built for herself an enviable career working on wedding dresses.
A Vera Wang creation is to the bridal industry what Jaguar is to the luxury car market—both are recognized immediately for their elegance and are unrivalled in beauty and distinction.
Wang was born in New York on June 27, 1949. Her parents had relocated to the United States from Shanghai, China a couple of years before her birth. Her father had a job in the pharmaceutical industry while her mother was a translator for the United Nations.
She majored in art history at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. During college she spent one year abroad, studying at the famed Sorbonne in Paris, where she immersed herself in the country's culture and soaked up French fashion. After graduation in 1971, Wang was hired at Vogue magazine as an assistant. She quickly impressed her bosses and was named the magazine's youngest ever fashion editor in 1972, a post she held for the next fifteen years.
Wang left Vogue to fulfill a dream: instead of writing about designers, she wanted to be one of them. In 1987, she got her wish when she was appointed a design director at the fashion house of Ralph Lauren.
