He is not swayed left and right by what goes on. Fashion by its very definition implies change. But start by working for somebody you respect—or anybody, really—and get paid to learn. There is a learning curve—not only in what you know, but in how you behave. There were no hours for me at Vogue or at Ralph. Sunday night? No problem. I was that kind of employee.
I cared about my job. I felt honored to be there. My goal was to prove to my employers that I was the best I could be. But I tried to keep thinking of touch points, like the big corded rope belts that sumo wrestlers wear to hold up their pants, or how a kimono is about wrapping and wrapping, layer over layer. I take these codes and make them my own.
Louis XIV was the original fashion rock star—a man who loved clothing and forced his courtiers to dress up. He used clothing as power and control. I probably never get more than five weeks of real active working time—from inspiration to visualization—to do a major collection.
My last ready-to-wear collection was brutal. How do I take plaid and make it my own? I came up with Celtic and based my whole collection on the capes that they wore when they went into battle, usually fastened with a brooch.
The words we put on some of the clothes were in a Celtic font. You get a bolt of fabric, and what do you construct with it in five weeks with your team on board? My collection is elevated. Moreover, she went to Sarah Lawrence College and attained a degree in art history. From the age of six, Wang started figure skating and while she was in high school competed in the United States Figure Skating Championship in When Wang failed to become a part of the US Olympics team, she diverted her attention towards the fashion industry.
In the early s, Wang served as a senior editor of fashion for Vogue but left the job once she was rejected the post of editor-in-chief.
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I think work has been my whole life and it's kept me honestly relevant, fascinated, passionate, frightened, worried and stressed. But [my career] has enabled me to really have a very full life. In all honesty, I go to whoever's screaming the loudest. When you run a company, it's like a family. So whichever baby is screaming the loudest, you run to that child. It's quite logical, actually, because if someone screaming really loudly, something's wrong or something needs to be fixed.
That's sort of how I operate. Prioritizing is not always possible because, very often, there are 10 things that are equally important. It's just, how do you manage to address as much as you can in a positive way. But if you really love something, whatever it is, that is a big start. If you don't love it, you will not make it through. Things can get really tough and decisions will be very hard. When you realize that you [failed at something], you just have to learn to let go, and letting go is perhaps harder than hanging in there.
For me, fashion became the next passion [after skating].
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