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September 14

11am

Vera Wang

A native New Yorker, Vera Wang has spent her lifetime at the forefront of fashion. Drawing her earliest inspiration from her mother and their annual trips to the Paris couture shows, Vera Wang went on to become the youngest ever Vogue fashion editor at the age of 23, allowing her the opportunity to collaborate with the most accomplished personalities in the world of fashion.

Founding her own company in 1990, Vera Wang is known for her nonchalant approach to style and luxury. Her design vocabulary resonates with signature layering, intricate draping and exquisite attention to detail.

In addition to ready-to-wear, she also designs bridal, maids, footwear, eyewear, fragrance, china and crystal, silver and gifts, flowers, fine papers, home fragrance and mattresses. All of her products are sold in the most exclusive department stores and boutiques around the world, including her own flagship stores on Madison Avenue and Mercer Street in New York City and Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

From the red carpet to the runway, the world’s most influential and fashionable women look to Vera Wang when dressing for their most important events and public appearances. The Vera Wang style has become a fixture on the world stage lauded in both the domestic and international press. In 2005, the Council of Fashion Designers of America honored Vera Wang’s innovation and dedication to her craft by naming her “Womenswear Designer of the Year.” The CFDA nominated Vera Wang for accessory designer of the year for her 2009 collections.

Vera Wang currently resides in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

What’s the reigning queen of artsy dressing supposed to do when fashion starts heading in a cleaned-up, spare, decidedly un-artsy direction? If she’s astute, and Vera Wang is nothing if not that, she starts making cleaned-up, spare fashion of her own. The first look out was a black wool pantsuit with a narrow, slightly elongated jacket, its shoulders trimmed with organza corsages. (Hey, no one becomes a minimalist overnight.) Tailoring was a focus of this show, but Wang put her luxurious, ultra-femme stamp on it: cutting the sleeves off one of her coats at the elbows so it can be worn with opera gloves and affixing sequins to the mesh pockets of a charcoal felt double-lapel jacket.

A pair of her easy paper-bag-waist tuxedo pants, worn with a draped one-shoulder top in white linen voile or an ivory silk faille tucked bustier, would make fabulous alternatives to the little black cocktail dress—though Wang showed quite a few of those, too. Among the best was a simple twisted and draped jersey frock that fell to just above the knee. Others, with their mosaics of metallic sequins and swags of black tulle (accessorized with piles of pearls), erred on the fussy side. “Less is more” is not a concept that feels entirely natural for Wang. Still, she nailed it with a scalloped black organza gown that looked practically weightless as it glided down the runway. (by Nicole Phelps – style.com)