Vera Wong wedding dresses and her biography

Who do you think celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, Mariah Carey, Sarah Michelle Gellar? However, this is not the whole list. Which designer dress did the only daughter of former US President Bill Clinton wear? Of course, in a dress from Vera Wong, who is by far the most famous wedding dress designer.

Wedding dresses by Vera Wong - how it all began ...

Vera Wong was born on June 27, 1949 to a wealthy expatriate family from Shanghai, China. Her family by that time lived on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, a very prestigious area of ​​New York. His mother worked as a translator for the United Nations, and his father ran his own medical company. As a child, Vera Wong was engaged in figure skating and could very well become an excellent skater. Then she received a good education, she studied art history, also studied for some time at the Sorbonne. And then she made an amazing career in American magazine Vogue... She joined Vogue in 1971 and soon became fashion editor. At 23 years old. A dizzying career. She worked at Vogue for almost 16 years.

And in 1987 Vera Wong moved to work in the company of the American designer Ralph Lauren, where she was responsible for the line of accessories. But it’s not work in a design company that will push her to create her own brand and start designing wedding dresses, but a wedding. Her own wedding. It so happened that when she married Arthur Becker in 1989, Vera Wong could not decide on the choice of a wedding dress. And in the end I drew a sketch of it myself. From this began her design career, and it should be noted a very successful career.

Today, Vera Wong and her husband have two adult daughters, and wedding dresses from the Vera Wang brand cost from $ 2,000-4,000 to $ 320,000, it is for this amount that Jennifer Lopez bought her wedding dress from Vera Wong. However, recently Vera Wong and her colleagues announced the release of a collection of wedding dresses at affordable prices: from 600 to 1000 dollars. The new collection of dresses is called White by Vera Wang.

Vera Wong opened her first store with the help of her father in the fashionable Carlisle Hotel on Madison Avenue in New York. She also has two boutiques in the UK: the Selfridge department store on Oxford Street in London and the Brown Thomas shopping center in Dublin.

Vera Wong has been creating wedding dresses for over 20 years. As well as the manufacture of accessories, household goods, porcelain, perfumes and even mattresses, you never know what the groom, the bride and their guests may need. Not to mention the design of the honeymoon suite at the Halekuani Hotel in Hawaii, which rents out for $ 5,500 a night. And undoubtedly Vera Wong knows everything about the wedding. She decided to share her experience in a book published in 2001: "Vera Wong: All About the Wedding." This is a collection of useful tips for brides: from choosing a wedding dress: his style, skirt length, neckline to music choices and little tricks for brides who wear glasses.

However, Vera Wong does not stop there and plans to make her own film in the future. Perhaps it will also be about weddings, or, perhaps, a girl who dreamed of becoming a famous figure skater, a former editor of Vogue, and now a successful designer will once again turn off the beaten path and surprise the world with something completely new.