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Wang is hyperintelligent, hilariously funny, sensitive?and self-deprecating. Having started out as a fashion editor at Vogue among some pretty big personalities, she has every reason to have adopted some strain of diva behavior. "I am not a diva," she says. And she's not. Born to traditional-minded Asian parents and raised with what she jokingly calls "good Midwestern values," Wang says, she's "a worker." Her work ethic?few could argue?has paid...
...next passion was fashion, and it led her from summer jobs at the Yves Saint Laurent boutique in New York City to 16 years as a fashion editor at Vogue, where she did covers and influential shoots with photographers like Richard Avedon and Deborah Turbeville. There too she eyed the top prize. "I don't think you stay for 16 years and not want the ultimate say," Wang explains. When she realized she wasn't going to get it, that she would never be editor in chief, "I had to try to recover," she says...
Wang was born creative. "I have always expressed myself, whether athletically or telling tales through fashion shoots," she says. Along with that nature, she was blessed with nurture. "I had a mother who was superbly chic. She made fashion this adventure for me as a young woman. She viewed fashion not as superficial but as expressive. That's a big difference," Wang says. Her father's attention to design extended all the way to his Hermès eyeglass cases. "I had an immense education from them in everything, not only fashion but in art and painting. They were very sophisticated...
...says. "Just under the wire." It was while scouting for wedding dresses and finding nothing remotely up to snuff that her father said, "'These are really pretty ugly,'" Wang recalls. "He said, 'I'll back you in a business if it's bridal, but no fashion.'" A few months later, Wang took him up on the offer...
...difference between "bridal fashion" and "fashion fashion" comes up frequently. "I always say we're not a bridal house. We're a fashion house that does bridal. There's a very big difference," says Wang, who is one of the few American designers to have a full-fledged, European-style atelier, complete with working sample room and U.S.-based factories. If Wang's version of bridal involved all the thought, handiwork and talent of high fashion, it had none of the spotlight. It was as if Wang were designing on another planet. Her coping mechanism: "I took out my fashion...