![]() He said, ‘You think you’re so talented, see if you even like the fashion business. Being Chinese American, I’ve got all these cultures staring me down. Design school, are you out of your mind?’ ” Wang recalled, waving off the rejection with jocular insight. ![]() You want to go to business school, I’ll talk to you about it. “He said, ‘You want to go to law school, I’m interested. ![]() But her father, the prosperous owner of a trading company, dismissed her initial requests for help in getting started. Wang, who grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, had always wanted to be a designer. “It just astonished me that in New York-which has everything including indoor rock climbing-there wasn’t a bridal store that reflected different styles and different tastes.” Finally, she took her own design to a seamstress. “I didn’t find anything that appealed to me. Wang was 40 when she made her own hellish pilgrimage in 1989 as a customer through East Coast bridal shops. ![]() “Service I usually don’t provide,” he cracked. Trumpets don’t come out blaring, ‘Here’s the dress!’ I’d like them to say, ‘Here’s the bride.’ ”Įnsconced in a pink suite at the Hotel Bel-Air amid a cheerful confusion of her 3-year-old daughter (the 5-month-old baby stayed home in New York), nanny and investment banker-husband, Arthur Becker, Wang talked animatedly and irreverently about the wedding fashion business. “To me, the most beautiful woman is a woman who wears her clothes. ![]()
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