{"id":6336,"date":"2010-09-14T01:09:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:09:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:01:54","slug":"vera-wang-is-the-godmother-of-asian-fashion-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6336","title":{"rendered":"Vera Wang is the godmother of Asian fashion designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vera Wang<\/strong> was one of the <strong>first celebrity Asian celebrity designers<\/strong> around\u2026a pioneer. \u201cThere\u2019s an Asian invasion going on,\u201d she said during a preview a few days before her spring show. \u201cAnd I\u2019m the grandmother.\u201d All self-deprecation aside, <strong>Wang<\/strong> is celebrating her 20th anniversary this year and has every right to do so with an ode to the motherland. And if Asia offers no shortage of sartorial references from which to choose, finding a way to make it modern presented a challenge until she found the right muse: Lucy Liu\u2019s Japanese gangster in \u201cKill Bill.\u201d \u201cIt was <strong>Asian<\/strong> in a different way, not as girly and demure, but sexier and tougher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out her latest styles and <strong>Asian influenced designs<\/strong> coming down the runway!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9DNuOkniI5Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9DNuOkniI5Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a 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