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Imagine if her name was Vera Long Wang. --Mrwojo 14:42, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Vera Wang is American

While technically correct, I don't understand the need to identify the American-born Ms. Wang as "a Chinese-American" while Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein are simply identified as "American". For the sake of uniformity, we should identify Mr. Klein as "Jewish-Hungarian-American fashion designer" or simply refer to Ms. Wang as "American".--Brendanmccabe (talk) 14:04, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Her nationality is not Chinese-American, it's American. It's not possible anyways to have one's nationality be Chinese-American as China doesn't allow dual-citizenships.

Although she is of Chinese ancestry, Vera Wang is unequivocally American: she was born in the US, she was raised in the US, and she lives and works in the US. She is, both figuratively and literally, American. And based on other comments, I see I 'm not the only one who understands and appreciates this fact.75.27.41.134 (talk) 17:42, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think anyone had been trying to deny Ms. Wang as an American, "Chinese American" is, at least in my background, a popular term to illustrate some american citizen of Chinese ancestry just like "African American". Does "Barack Obama is African American" mean Obama is an African rather than an American? 31.205.21.4 (talk) 23:28, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so it's settled. She's American. Why the Chinese pronunciation? Brendanmccabe (talk) 23:37, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the Chinese pronunciation is on there as a formality because although she is American, she is of Chinese decent with a Chinese last name. TMatBU2021 (talk) 02:02, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This was dumped by User:me and reverted by MoNo; please encorporate as necessary:

The world’s most successful wedding gown designer Vera Wang built her great reputation for elegant and timeless bridal designs. Vera Wang has spent more than twenty-five years in the fashion industry. Before she struck out on her own, Vera Wang worked as a Senior Fashion Editor at Vogue for a sixteen-year tenure, and in 1985, Vera Wang left Vogue and joined Ralph Lauren as a design director for two years. In 1990, Vera Wang opened a luxury boutique in New York City.

As the second generation from a Chinese immigrate family, Vera Wang has well trained to be academic excellence and athletic prowess. In her early years, she attended Sarah Lawrence College, and competed in skating competitions. As an excellent skater,and she competed in the 1968 National Figure Skating Final. Later, after she failed to make the U.S. Olympic team, she turned her passion into fashion. However, she did not give up her passion for sport. Years later, Vera Wang’s unique design grab people’s attention on Olympic games. Many fabulous skaters such as Michelle Kwan, Nancy Kerriganwore etc. wear Vera Wang’s design on almost every international skating competition. she was really good.

The inspiration for explored on wedding gown design from Vera Wang’s frustrating wedding dress experience years ago. There was no fashion in bridal until Vera Wang added sophisticated element to it. Vera Wang’s appeared absolutely changed the vision for the future bridal look. Today, wedding gown is not only a piece of traditional dress, but also a piece of fashion. Nevertheless, this outstanding designer is not satisfied with what she has done, she continues to challenge herself, after success in the bridal collection, she launched her luxury evening dress, ready-to-wear line, latterly she created her fragrance, fine jewelry and women’s accessories. Nowadays, this talent designer brings her creation to almost every field of design.

Vera Wang has a line of everyday wear now, too. She has created a line of affordable business wear and lounge wear that is available at stores in the U.S. The name it is under is Simply Vera Wang. TMatBU2021 (talk) 02:02, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

--Jia ng 12:54, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

This cut out paragraphs contain good info. If some copy-editors can check the NPOV, grammar, typo etc., the info can be added to the main article. Kowloonese 21:50, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Vera Wang updated headshot

The Vera Wang head shot has been updated to a recent image as of 6/11/2015. Verawang2 (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verawang2 (talk • contribs) 16:10, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Start-class: Brief article that could be broken into sections and expanded

Mid-importance: Successful modern designer. Daniel Case 17:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 17:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 09:53, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Regarding the definition tag of 'high society', I referred it to the article explaining it.--Vince0vince (talk) 19:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]