Vera Wang: A Bride’s Key to Beauty
Vera Wang is a highly lucrative, exclusive innovator. She is considerably one of the most prominent designers in America today. She came into being on June 27, 1949 in Ney York city. Her impacts on the fashion industry, with her haute couture wedding gowns and designer clothing, have been immensely influential. These outstanding impacts have awarded her with the Council of Fashion Designers America’s Women’s Wear Designer of the Year and the Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award, just to name a few.
Vera was born in the United States, but she is of Chinese descent. Vera Wang’s parents, Florence Wu and Cheng Ching Wang, were born in Shanghai, China but moved to New York in the mid 1940’s, where they raised young Vera. Although she was born into a multi-million dollar family, her parents ensured that young Vera and her brother would learn to set obtainable goals for their lifestyle, academically and athletically. Vera’s mother taught her daughter much about style and they often attended many fashion shows in Paris. She attended the elite Chapin School, from which she graduated in 1967. She later went on to attend Sarah Lawrence College where she completed her degree in the field of art history. Wang was a talented figure skater, and received many rewards in competition. However, upon her graduation from college in 1971, she “hung up her skates” because she couldn’t balance academics and athletics. Using all of the “fashion sense” she received from her mother, she shifted interest to fashion and began working for Vogue magazine. Only having been working there for a year, Wang was promoted to senior fashion editor. Fifteen years later, she left to work under Ralph Lauren, assisting him ...
... middle of paper ...
... industry. Being a female, she is a good role model for young girls my age. The many outstanding achievements that she has made inspire me to accomplish their long term goals. In my opinion, I do possess similar qualities as Wang. Just as she was so determined to seek out the bridal dress most suitable for her wedding, I have a certain self motivation to achieve the very things I aspire. Also, I believe that I am very creative innovator whether the situation requires finding a solution to a problem or creating a project design similarly to Wang herself.
In the future, I would most definitely like to become an entrepreneur. I believe that I possess the necessary qualities that define me as a good leader. Because I am highly creative and I enjoy creating marvelous designs, I believe that I would be successful in the marketing, architectural, or engineering industry.
Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948 and grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when she was sent to the countryside to be “Re-educated” by the Maoist regime. She immigrated to the US in 1984 to
From the conventional Victorian dresses of the 1800’s to the rock-and-roll tee shirts of the 1980’s, American culture has experienced incredibly diverse trends in clothing. This ever changing timeline of fashion provokes the question: what is the cause of such differing styles? By considering the state of society throughout the eras, it can be seen that clothing directly correlates with the current way of life. Specifically, American women’s fashion of the 1920’s and 1930’s proves to not simply be a meaningless trend – rather an accurate reflection of the specific era.
Being able to create a movement of her own, Modernism and changing fashion for women, Chanel will forever be known as a remarkable fashion designer. I believe the fact that she put a woman’s worth as her main focus into creating her designs is what made consumers around the world admire her work. She knew that in the 20th century, to be elegant and fashionable meant money and a lot of it. The materials used for trendy clothing were very costly. This leads to Chanel using jersey as her main fabric choice. It was a cheaper fabric of choice. Most may wonder why she chose this fabric therefore you must know that Chanel did not come from a family full of riches and wealth. She became wealthy because she knew what it was like to be deprived of it and suffer in poverty. Her past impacts her genius ways of thinking to be able to create such clothing. Along with using jerseys as her fabric, Chanel’s main goal when creating a new design is to keep the men clothing in mind. The clothing was fitting but not suffocating. This changed the whole world’s outlook on how women should appear. It gave women the independence, confidence and power to say “Hey, I’m no different from a male and there is no set way to how I should look as a female if I so do not choose”.
The world famous designer and fashion icon Coco Chanel once said “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, and what is happening.” Fashion is something that has evolved multiple times and is also something that has stood the test of time since the very beginning. It’s something that effects society from things like people’s first impressions of what they assume about you to defining your social class from the wealthier to the not so wealthy. Fashion itself is a reflection of social, economic, political and cultural changes. It expresses modernity, symbolizing the spirit of the times. "Fashion is the most powerful art there is. Its movement, design,
The term “The Little Black Dress,” the fragrance “Chanel No. 5,” the Chanel suit with its soft, cardigan-like jacket and skirt, have become part of the timeless fashion vocabulary familiar to us all. From our perspective, these aspects of modern fashion hardly seem revolutionary, but Coco Chanel was a businesswoman who became successful by adopting fashion to the evolving role of women in a rapidly changing wartime society; her vision that left a legacy which endures to this day.
Working at her father’s clothing shop, she became very knowledgeable about expensive textiles and embellishments, which were captured in her works later in career. She was able to capture the beauty and lavishness of fabrics in portraits of aristocratic women.
The future of women’s fashion is uncertain—in that shock value is harder to come by with each passing year. There is a concept in fashion that nothing is new, everything has been done before. This theory is coming closer to obvious reality, as fashion shows of recent years have visual throwbacks as late as the Victorian era. Although the direction is not yet decided, it is almost definite that women will use fashion as an important tool for expression and freedom in the future.
“Once she began to apply herself, Chanel became a femme d’entreprise forever. Throughout the remainder of her life she would work unremittingly as craftsman and business woman, imposing her personal conception of the art of dressing upon an ever-expanding clientele” (Charles-Roux 6-7). Even though Chanel left the fashion industry during the war and was heavily criticized for it, she was and still is one of the most famous fashion designers (Charles-Roux 7-8). Until her death, Chanel continued working on new designs that were accustomed to her style (“Coco Chanel Biography” par. 20). In 1971, Chanel died at the age of 88. To this day, her house still exists. Chanel is buried in Switzerland with five stone lions surrounding her tomb (Gabrielle par. 1). Because of Chanel’s new bold ideas, the women’s fashion industry has forever been changed (Charles-Roux 6).
She used to introduce bold new fashion trend, known for styling trick and making fashion appear to be graceful. She is fearless and brave when it comes to experimenting new style and fashion. You can understand it through her comment On Tops, "If I’m wearing a top, I don’t wear a bra. If I’m wearing a bra, I just wear a bra."
Gabrielle Chanel remains one of the most well-known fashion designers of all time. She was born on August 19, 1883 in France and died in 1971. Chanel revolutionized the fashion industry with her distinctive style. After the death of her mother, she spent much of her childhood in an orphanage. The challenges of her early life helped build her strong character which influenced her path in life. Chanel was nicknamed “Coco” after a lost dog in a popular song she loved to sing. Her early career was funded by a succession of her rich lovers. This allowed her to open her first shop in Paris in 1910. She sold hats as well as some garments. Coco developed a significant following of clientele who enjoyed her practical sportswear creating great success.
Fashion has been around ever since ancient times, since the time of the Romans, it survived the world wars and is yet today a business with rapid changes. Fashion started off as an art form, a way for the rich to show their social status with unique and innovative designs that only they could afford. It was a way to separate the social classes of the society. In this paper I will include the creators of haute couture, and how the following designers developed couture, as well as leading names in today’s ready-to-wear industry. The list is long, but I chose to focus on the three most important designers in the modern fashion industry.
In Conclusion, Burberry, Vera Wang and Chanel are brands and designers with different stories and completely distinct styles and specializations.Burberry is known for its iconic trench coat and check pattern, Vera Wang is famous for her alluring bridal gowns and Chanel prominent for its women clothing revolution, The Chanel Suit and it’s LBD (Little Black Dress). Nevertheless, these three brands and designers all share the common factor of adaptation throughout time.
Mother Teresa is one of the most recognized women in the world. Teresa brought in a revolutionary change in the world with her positive thoughts and love for humanity. Her missionary work started way back 1931 when she was still a little girl. She joined the Nuns as a kid in 1931, and she was later named Teresa from Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. It was in respect and honor of the Saints of Theresa. Mother Teresa’s missions were concentrated around helping the poor people with their basic needs such as food, water and shelter. She also demonstrated a lot of interest in taking care of the weak and defenseless people in the society. For example, it has been recorded that she spent a lot of time caring for the elderly, disabled and injured. At the same
My ideal career would allow me to do something that interests me. I enjoy working with words and with numbers. I've also had success in the areas of technology and customer service.
All together the career of becoming an interior designer is a career that I could see myself pursuing because it has many interest that I would like to explore and also it is a career that I see as a great beginning for the future of my adult life into becoming a more better and skilled designer whether it’s an interior designer or fashion designer or graphic designer.