Creative Nail Design Biography
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Jason Wu born
September 27, 1982) is a Taiwanese-Canadian fashion designer based inNew York City.
He is most famous for designing the dresses of Michelle Obama on several
occasions, including during first and second inauguration of American President
Barack Obama. Jason Wu was born in Taipei,
Taiwan. Wu
moved to Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canadaat age nine and attended Eaglebrook
School in Deerfield,
Massachusetts and Loomis Chaffee, in Windsor, Connecticut.
He learned how to sew by designing and sewing for dolls, and went on to study
sculpture in Tokyo.
Wu continued this career path at age sixteen by learning to create freelance
doll clothing designs for toy company Integrity Toys under the lines
"Jason Wu dolls" and later "Fashion Royalty". The following
year, he was named creative director of Integrity Toys. He decided to become a
fashion designer while spending his senior year of high school in Rennes, France
before graduating from theLoomis Chaffee
School in 2001, and studied at the
Parsons The New School for Design, a division of The New School in New York.
Wu
launched his ready-to-wear line of clothes with earnings
from his years of doll designs. His first full collection debuted in
2006 and
won the Fashion Group International's Rising Star award in 2008. Jason
Wu's
dresses were photographed underwater by Howard Schatz for Delta Faucet
Company's Brizo branded faucet campaign in 2006. In 2008 he was
nominated for
the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund award. Bruce Weber shot the designer for W
magazine's "Summer Camp" portfolio in July 2008. Wu's early clients
included Ivana Trump, January Jones, and Amber Valletta. He also worked
extensively with drag queen RuPaul, ultimately designing six RuPaul
dolls. Wu
collaborated with Creative Nail Design for his Spring 2011 collection to
create
a set of four nail polish colours that was to be retailed from May 2011.
In June 2013, Wu was named as the Art Director of German
fashion house Hugo Boss overseeing the entire womenswear range.
Michelle Obama is a noted Jason Wu customer. She was
introduced to Wu by André Leon Talley, Vogue Magazine's editor-at-large, who
had been advising the current First Family on their appearance. She bought four
dresses from Wu early in the year, wearing one of them for a segment on Barbara
Walters Special shortly before the November 2008 election, prompting many in
the media to consider her his "career-launcher". She wore another
dress, a custom-designed one-shoulder, floor-length white chiffon gown, at the
inaugural balls on the night of President Barack Obama's first term
inauguration.
Appearing
on the cover of Vogue, Obama once again wore a Wu
design, a magenta silk dress. Upon her arrival in London in April 2009
during the First Lady
and President Barack Obama's first official European trip, Obama wore a
chartreuse silk sheath dress that was designed by Wu; the next day she
wore a
Wu coat during her visit with the Queen Elizabeth II. On April 2, 2009,
Obama
paired a "traditional looking" teal Wu dress with a blue-patterned
cardigan designed by Junya Watanabe on her visit to the Royal Opera
House.Mrs. Obama again wore a dress that was designed by Wu, a
ruby red velvet and chiffon design, at the 2013 Presidential Inaugural
Balls.
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