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Vera Wang Biography
Vera Wang was born in June 27, 1949 to affluent Chinese immigrants, Cheng Ching Wang and Florence Wu Wang who built multimillion dollar oil and Pharmaceuticals Company after emigrating from china to the U. ... The family settled on Manhattan’s Upper East Side where Wang enjoyed her childhood along with her brother Kenneth who is now the president of the family business. ... ” With this philosophy Wang’s family have made a name in the United States. ... At the age of 7, Wang dedicated herself to sports when she received her first figure skates for Christmas. ... Later Stuart went solo as a figure skater, which led Wang into a breakdown in sophomore year in Sarah Lawrence College.
Wang left Sarah Lawrence College and moved to Paris to live with French Olympic skater Patrick Pera, whom she met four years earlier. ... However, Wang returned to United States to complete her degree in art history in Sarah Lawrence College leaving Patrick Pera. On her gradation from college, in 1971, Wang quit her skating career and began her work in the Vogue magazine. ... Vera Wang worked in the offices of Madison Avenue with a passion in fashion for almost two decades. ...
Vera was not always about work even though she has always been an overachiever where she picked up her trait from her parents, Cheng Ching Wang, and Florence Wu Wang. However, Vera would dance till dawn at studio 54 and hop on a cab to the office, so she was not always about work. ... Vera resisted getting into a serious relationship due to her career.” Seven years later she crossed Arthur again and Vera reconsidered. ... ”
After leaving Vogue in 1987, Vera set out on a new direction in the Seventh Avenue in her first job as a design director for Ralph Lauren. However, in 1988, Vera was informally engaged to her husband, Arthur Becker during a trip to Hawaii. ... ” This made Vera very mad since she left her longtime job at Vogue to find a desirable path in the frantic world of fashion.
Approximate Word count = 1645
Approximate Pages = 6.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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