Jason Wu FW-2012-13-Stylert.com
Jason Wu has presented his FW 2012-13 collection at the New York Fashion Week.
The collection was inspired by the historical China of the Qing Dynasty. The line features Mao jackets and shirts, as well as the army green and red palette sportswear and belted puffy jackets with quilting on the shoulders .
Jason Wu is a rising star in the fashion world; his haute couture imbues a ladylike style with a romantic attitude. His fashion includes elegant one shoulder chiffon dresses, red-carpet gowns and perfectly tailored jackets.
Jason Wu was born in Taiwan on September 27 1982, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at age nine and attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and Loomis Chaffee, in 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 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 before graduating from The Loomis Chaffee School in 2001, and studied at the Parsons The New School For Design at The New School. He later interned with Narciso Rodriguez.
His first own collection he 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 Vogue Fashion Fund award. Bruce Weber shot the designer for W magazine’s “Summer Camp” portfolio last July.
Jason Wu was thrust into the spotlight when Michelle Obama chose one of his creations for her Inauguration Ball. Since then, Jason Wu has been refining his signature take on classic American sportswear, infusing it with his own unique style of sophistication and glamour.
