Asian American Fashion Designers

choi

本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布

Eric Wilson, Asian-Americans Climb Fashion Industry Ladder. New York Times, Sept. 5, 2010, at page A1 (front page).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/fashion/05asians.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=jason%20wu%20asian&st=cse


Note:
(a) Richard Chai (Korean American)
(b) Alexander Wang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wang_(designer)
(born in 1984 at San Francisco)
(c) Parsons the New School for Design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_the_new_school_for_design
(d) Anna Sui (born in 1964 at Detroit, Michigan; went to Parsons)
(e) Vera (Ellen) Wang 王薇薇 (born in 1949 at New York City)
(f) Derek Lam (born in 1967 at San Francisco; went to Parsons)
http://dereklam.com/

Lim and Lam are Cantonese for Mandarin "Lin" 林.
(g) Tod's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod%27s
(Italian; most famous for its driving shoes)
(h) Yohji YAMAMOTO 山本 耀司
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohji_Yamamoto
(born in 1943 at Tokyo)
(i) Rei KAWAKUBO 川久保 玲
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Kawakubo
(born in 1942 at Tokyo)
(j) Issey MIYAKE 三宅 一生
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issey_Miyake
(born in 1938 at Hiroshima)
(k) Peter Som
http://www.petersom.com/
(born at San Francisco)


--

choi

本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布

Two not mentioned in this NYT report.

(1) Jimmy Choo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Choo
(born  Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat 周仰杰 in Penang 槟城, Malaysia into a family
of shoemakers; of Chinese Hakka descent; went to what is now part of the
London College of Fashion)

Elsewhere says he was born in 1961.

(2) Phillip Lim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Lim
(born 1973 in Thailand; of Chinese ancestry)

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: Eric Wilson, Asian-Americans Climb Fashion Industry Ladder. New York Times, Sept. 5, 2010, at page A1 (front page).
: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/fashion/05asians.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=jason%20wu%20asian&st=cse
: Note:
: (a) Richard Chai (Korean American)
: (以下引言省略...)

--