Design Profile: Jason Wu & 2013 His Resort Collection & Miss Wu Spring Collection!

                                                        Happy Wednesday!
I hope You having a Great day!  I have been busy with my health & yesterday My Mom & I went to go see "The Impossible."  It's amazing.. & powerful, It's a Movie that keeps moving & doesn't stop till the Very end, It's a must watch in my book.
This Past weekend I was reading instyle & JASON Wu, Name Kept Coming up! I Said to Myself Maybe I should write a Designer Profile on him, since I'm a FAN & Today is a Designer Profile: Jason Wu! Mixed with a look At his 2013 Resort Collection & his first spring Miss Wu Collection!

                                     Designer Profile: Jason Wu

His early Life. 

Jason was Born In Taipei,Taiwan On September 27 1982. 

He Later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at 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.

                                             "Fashion Royalty Dolls" 

 He decided to become a fashion designer while spending his senior year of high school in Rennes, France, before graduating from the Loomis Chaffee School in 2001, and studied at the Parsons The New School for Design, a division of The New School in New York. 

Early His Fashion Career. 

He later interned with Narciso Rodriguez. 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. 

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.

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.

2008 

January: He receives the Fashion Group International Rising Star Award for Women’s Ready-to-Wear. February: Knitwear introduced. 

June: Resort debuts.

Jason Wu

Resort Wear 

2008

July: Wu named CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist. 

September: Mark Walsh Leslie Chin for Jason Wu jewelry collection debuts.

 October: Gossip Girl queen Leighton Meester wears his butterfly-sprinkled dress to a CFDA Fashion Fund soiree. 

November: Wu cohosts a trunk show at L.A. boutique Satine with actress Lucy Liu. “Working with dolls, you know, they don’t have a personality; they don’t talk,” he will later tell W. “Meeting the girls who wear my clothes helps.”

 Soon-to-be First Lady Michelle Obama wears his ivory raw-silk sheath with black hand-embroidered rosettes for an appearance with the president-elect on A Barbara Walters Special. 

Vogue profiles the CFDA nominee

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January: Michelle Obama chooses his snowy silk-chiffon gown, embroidered with Swarovski crystal florets, for the Inaugural Ball. 

Of the top-secret design assignment, Wu will later tell WWD, “I knew it had to be formal, and my only memo was that it had to sparkle. I thought, I can do it, I can do sparkle.” Taiwanese newspapers go wild for their native son. 

February: He collaborates with jewelry designer Philip Crangi on a collection. 

March: Obama graces the cover of Vogue in a shocking-pink Wu sheath. 

Wu named a CFDA/Swarovski Award for Womenswear finalist. 

April: Collaborates with shoe company Roger Vivier. 

June: Launches the Exclusives, a capsule collection featuring core brand silhouettes. 

Dresses Diane Kruger in a lipstick-red mini with black epaulets for the CFDA Awards; the look will later make the pages of Vogue. 

August: Serves as honorary guest designer for seventeenth-annual Jeffrey Fashion Cares fund-raiser benefiting AIDS and breast cancer. 

September: Sunglasses collaboration with Modo Eyewear debuts. 

Vogue staffer Florence Kane reports on her dressmaking experience with Wu.

October: Wu expands to Asian markets via Lane Crawford. 

November: Twilight heroine Kristen Stewart wears his strapless cocktail dress to a benefit screening of New Moon. 

                                    

 December: First pre-fall collection, inspired by Pan Am stewardesses of the sixties and seventies, is shown..

                                                                  Jason Wu

                                                                    Pre-Fall

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 2010

February: Fall capsule collection for TSE cashmere debuts. Create by Jason Wu, a line of digital cameras for General Electric, unveiled. Jason Wu’s rapidly growing company expands to a 9,000-square-foot space in the former Mary McFadden building in New York.
He designs the Cissy line of fashion dolls for Madame Alexander.
Jewelry designer Aurélie Bidermann creates a collection for Wu. 

Bidermann literally captures nature with real butterflies, ivy, and ginkgo leaves dipped in yellow and black gold.

March: He teams with Bergdorf Goodman for an exclusive capsule collection. 

Avatar actress Zoe Saldana is pictured in Vogue in a bubble-skirted white Wu number.
Wu’s Inaugural Ball design for Michelle Obama is inducted into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History First Ladies Collection. “To say that she has changed my life is truly an understatement,” he says.
May: Actress Camilla Belle wears his rose-red, off-the-shoulder ball gown to the Met Costume Institute gala.

June: He wins the CFDA/Swarovski Award for Womenswear.
July: Shortlisted for the prestigious Swiss Textiles Award.
September: Accessories range of shoes, eyewear, and handbags officially launches.
The four shoe styles feature the designer’s new signatures—gray soles and a wide-eyed owl icon nicknamed Miss Wu.
Natalie Portman wears his strapless daffodil-print dress to the Black Swan premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. 

A Wu nail-polish collection for CND debuts.
October: He meets with Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou to discuss art and design, and presents a dress to the island nation’s first lady, Chow Mei-ching. 

                                                                          2011

January: Bridal collection unveiled, selling exclusively on Net-a-Porter.

February: Alexis Bittar designs jewelry for the fall show, streamed live on bergdorfgoodman.com. March: Nominated for a CFDA award for accessory design, for his recently launched spring 2011 shoe and bag collection.
 Contributes an environmentally friendly dress design to Runway to Green, an initiative by Vogue and Christie’s to raise awareness of eco fashion.

May: Named a runner-up in the fashion category of the Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards. August: Guest-designs for Jeffrey Fashion Cares a second time.
September: Becomes a consultant for the St. Regis, producing fashion-oriented Web content and events for the hotel worldwide.
                                                                        2012

January: Receives the Future of Fashion Award at the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund dinner. Michelle Williams accepts her Best Actress Golden Globe for My Week With Marilyn in blue devoré-velvet Jason Wu.

February: A shirtdress from the Jason Wu for Target collaboration appears as Vogue’s Steal of the Month.

Wu’s first ad campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre, is disseminated through guerilla-style flyposting across Manhattan.
March: Breakout actress Felicity Jones wears a blue strapless Jason Wu gown in Vogue.

May: Model Karlie Kloss wears a Shocking-pink Jason Wu dress to the Met gala celebrating the work of Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada.

September: Wu’s spring 2013 collection takes a notable turn toward the dark and kinky, with black leather, lace, and harnesses. You can read My review ALL About Jason Wu Spring Collection>  Here! 
                                                           
    2013
January: Elated when Michelle Obama once again chooses his design for the Inaugural Ball—a red faille coupé gown with (for the requisite sparkle) a gold ring and pavé diamonds at the collarbone. “It’s such a confident color for her,” Wu says, “and it really was my first instinct.”

The designer launches Miss Wu, a more affordable contemporary collection, in partnership with Nordstrom. Veteran supermodel Stephanie Seymour is announced as the star of the spring campaign, shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
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                                             The Best Runway Shows By Jason Wu... 
                                                            
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Photos & info Here!

I Love The black,white & blush  & Very Spring like! 

Yet very Grown Up & There is something for everyone in this collection, It even has a classic pieces that will come in handy for the Fashionista In all of us! 

 Fall 2008

 Ready-to-wear

(More Photos & info Here!) 

OH This is such a fall Collection.. I love all the dresses & The knit sweaters are AMAZING! Wow & I love all The tailored suits! 

Spring 2009

Ready-to-wear

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Omgh.. This is one of my favorite collection of Jason Wu.

I LOVE ALL the colors & It's makes me think of spring colors & yet, It's Not even Designer wear.. But IT IS!  It's very normal With Shorts & Blouses & Dresses & the hats are breath taking! Plus, You got the Bangles & sandals & bags.. that are Wonderfully made! 

Fall 2011

Ready-to-wear. 

(More Photos & Info Here! ) 

I LOVE how there are a lot Menswear inspired outfits & Outerwear outfits! & colors very from light blush to deep dark grey , then you have patterns from dots to bubble dresses. 

Resort 2011

(More Photos & Info Here! ) 

You can see Jason uses Coco Chanel as his Muse &  I'm In love with

 all the straw boaters (hats) to the tweedy skirt suits to the sailor-stripe sweaters and full menswear pants, makes me think of 1930s France. 

Spring 2012

Ready-to-wear

(More photos & Info Here!) 

I LOVE it! It's very egdy yet Only Jason Wu could pull it off. pastels are eye a catcher for me & sheerness is a lot but glad he just a few outfits like that. the bright pink colors are Breath taing with all the models wearing perfect make up but yet It still yelled Street Style to me. 

You can read My review ALL About Jason Wu Spring 2013 Collection>  Here! 

(Side note: Miss Wu is cheaper then normal designer prices & a new contemporary & very playful for the everyday young Women. )

Miss Wu 

Spring 2013 

Ready-to-wear

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can I buy all?? Omgh, It's perfect.. The colors & patterns & striped sweaters, geometric-print silk blouses, off-color floppy hats, boxy leather shifts, white cocktail dresses and tailored trenches & cat eyed Sunny's & print flats & heels & black classic purses. I'm  a Huge FAN of Miss Wu..

Resort 2013

(More Photos & Info Here!) 

This Line has a very vintage feel in 2013 & was inspired by the work of artist Mike Libby. 

Wu's customarily ladylike look, but with a twist. A sleeveless white shirt, for example, formed the bodice of a dress consumed by a floral-printed chiffon skirt. Also in the mix are clusters of custom-made Swarovski crystals embroidered onto tank tops, cocktail dresses, and handbags shaped like insect bodies.

Umm, WOW! Vogue wrote a amazing Review. I LOVE IT! Peplum Skirts & a few sandals look like Wood & others look Like Jewelry. all In All, It's really Like Art, if You study the photos for a while, the black belts give all the models a tiny waist.

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