Asian American Designers by Kyunghee Pyun https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers Snapshots of Asian American Creativity I want everybody to find an example of an Asian designer or a creator (musicians/chefs/etc) and then discuss their impact on their own field. About 100 words. You need an exact source: title, date, materials/medium, collection. en-us 2018-09-09 19:49:34 UTC 2026-04-27 17:30:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png Vera Wang kyunghee_pyun https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/282971044 By Kyunghee Pyun

She is a 
famous wedding dress designer with a boutique in New York City. She is inspiring as a successful business leader.]]> 2018-09-18 15:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/282971044 Alexander Wang & Vera Wang https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/290323827 By Carlina Mora 

There are two important Asian American designers that I am familiar with: Vera Wang and Alexander Wang. They are both famous Asian American fashion designers but each owns their individual personal aesthetics. Vera Wang is famous for her wedding gown designs while Alexander Wang is known for his dark and edgy women's fashion designs.
Vera Wang is an important and influential figure in the fashion world.  She focused on creating beautiful, stylish, contemporary and sophisticated gowns that have a more affordable price point. Her goal was so that women who couldn’t afford the extravagant designer dresses of exclusive brands like Valentino, could still find the gown of their dreams for their weddings. Just like Vega, Alexander Wang is an important figure in the fashion industry. I recently read that his latest collection was inspired by his parents’ journey from China to the United States and how it has influenced his own experiences. He wants to tell his family’s story but also reconfigure the way fashion is sold. 
 I find it a bit comical that for a while I believed that they were related.]]> 2018-10-08 14:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/290323827 Zang Toi olivia_ende https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/298088422 By Olivia Ende

The designer the i found is Zang Toi. I had never heard of this designer before but wanted to research someone new that i had never heard of before. Zang Toi was born in a small village, Kuala Krai in Kelantan, Malaysia. At the age of 20 he moved to New York and studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design. In August 1989, he opened his atelier and soon after, U.S Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour featured Zang in March 1990 issue and was one of the first Asian designers championed by the renowned editor. Zang was also awarded the Mouton Cadet Young Designer of the Year which recognizes the top, young, U.S. designer of the year in 1990. After that his career skyrocketed. He was the new up and coming designer that everyone wanted. He has been featured in countless magazines and news articles, has dressed celebrities all across Hollywood and the red carpet. He has even created luxurious wardrobe for philanthropists and royalty including Melinda Gates and Saudi Princess Haifa Bandar Al Saud. Aside from design, Zang has made countless donations to the lance Armstrong foundation to help find a cure for cancer. After 28 years of being a successful designer Zang Toi opened up his first store on Lexington ave.   

http://zangtoi.com/bio-2/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/zang-toi-nyfw-n424171

]]> 2018-10-29 15:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/298088422 ALEXANDER WANG https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/298337179 By Jarrod Olson

Alexander Wang dropped out of Parsons School of Design as a fashion design students in 2014. Which is he started his own label. He became famous in 2008, after receiving the Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund aware granting him $200,000. He was also announced Womenswear Designer of the Year and as the winner of Swiss Textiles. Alexander Wang did a collaboration with a jewelry designer which inspired him to work with chains. He loves using the color black and silver accents. Almost all of his collections throughout the years have been black. He is extremely inspirational to the asian community because he is one of the very few asian artists/designers who had made it in the United States. Alexander Wang's style remains true throughout all his collections; containing sportswear-inspired looks! ]]> 2018-10-30 02:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/298337179 Hyden Yoo valeriya_romashchenk1 https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/298754968 By Valeriya Romashchenko

Hyden Yoo is a Korean-American designer, he was born in Seoul and grew up in Houston, Texas. Yoo studied biology at the University of Chicago in hopes of becoming a doctor, but instead, he explored different variations of jobs; he worked as a retail sales and management consultant, and fitness trainer, and hoped to find a career where his heart belongs. After participating and winning at the show “Fear Factor,” at that time he knew that his dream is to become a fashion designer. After moving to New York, Yoo invested his winning money into his goal and started a fashion label in 2008. Yoo's line became known for his khaki pants, knitwear, dress shirts, and outerwear. In 2014, Hyden Yoo moved to Venice, California where he opened his first fashion boutique. 
  I was lucky to participate as a model in Hyden Yoo’s Fashion Presentation in February 2011. I worked with his team for about a year, and I received a great experience working for his brand as a fit model. 

]]> 2018-10-30 21:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/298754968 Lily Kwong emily_chin1 https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/302327763 Lily Kwong was originally a model who went on to pursue landscaping. She is the founder of Lily Kwong Studios, a landscape design studio. Her mission is to reconnect people and their urban environments with nature. Her work focuses on using and incorporating lush greenery and foliage into structures such as hotels and residential areas. She hopes to bring back a sense of harmony between not only people and their environment but also people with other people. Kwong has a degree in urban studies and combines her fascination for the clockwork of cities and her passion for plants to create designs that will make the world a greener and brighter place.]]> 2018-11-08 20:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/302327763 Phillip Lim yuting_zhu https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/302415957 By Yu Ting Zhu
Phillip Lim is an American fashion designer of Chinese descent whose parents immigrated to America from Thailand during the Cambodian Genocide. His mother was seamstress and his father a professional poker player—before immigrating to the United States, Phillip Lim is a key figure in New York’s wave of Asian-American designers. He has been vocal in addressing the "Made in China" stigma, and proudly produces his label in China as he hopes to shift the stereotype that clothing produced in the mainland is synonymous with poor quality. ]]> 2018-11-09 03:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/302415957 Masaharu Morimoto curlystarfish6 https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/303098031 By Courtney Georgalas

Masaharu Morimoto is a very well-known chef on the Japanese cooking show, Iron Chef and Iron Chef America. He is well known for his Japanese dishes and presenting them in unique ways. He was taught his skills in Hiroshima, Japan in the 1970s-80s. And soon opened a restaurant there. Becoming more popular, he decided to sell his restaurant and travel to the United States, specifically Manhattan. In NYC, he was a chef at many prestigious restaurants. Some included, The SONY corporations executive chef and head chef at the Japanese restaurant Nobu. He soon got the gig on the show, Iron Chef. This greatly expanded his career allowing him to open up many of his own restaurants. http://ironchefmorimoto.com ]]> 2018-11-12 03:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/303098031 Hiroko Takeda https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/304060507 By Adena von Hahn

Hiroko Takeda is a Japanese American textile designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She creates woven textile sculptural pieces which are hung in many building lobbies. Some  of her clients include Victoria Hagan, Calvin Klein and Peter Marino. 
Her career began in Japan, where she learned the Mingei style of domestic textile weaving in Kyoto. Later she studied at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work emphasizes the beauty of yarn and the technical style of English weaving. ]]> 2018-11-13 22:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/304060507 Adrian Tomine emma_ike https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/304079502 By Emma Ike

Adrian Tomine is a Japanese American contemporary cartoonist, best known for his comic book series Optic Nerve and for illustrations in The New Yorker magazine. Growing up, he was fixated on Spider-Man and Indiana Jones comics and began publishing work at the age of sixteen. Later, his focus shifted from super heroes to “alternative-underground” comics which told life-like narratives. Tomine’s early work generally veered away from Asian-American issues, but his newest graphic novel, “Shortcomings”, fully grapples with themes of being Asian-American in dominantly white-male society. His portrayals, or lack of, racialized identities has been met with both criticism and praise. Tomine’s content is difficult to categorize as “Asian-American”, complicating our conventional vision of what Asian American art and 
literature should look like. By allowing his personal interests to guide his work, Tomine has liberated other Asian American creatives from questioning their identities based on their degree of representing what Tomine calls, “Then my parents came to America."]]> 2018-11-13 23:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/304079502 Jason Wu https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/305430724 by Gloria Ostagne

Jason Wu is a Taiwanese-Canadian artist and fashion designer. He was born in Taiwan, however he grew up in Vancouver. He attended Parsons where he majored in fashion design. His first collection launched in 2003..He is currently based in Nyc and his brand produces ready to wear pieces, accessories as well as fragrances.  He is known for designing for former first lady Michelle Obama and has won the Fashion Group International's rising star award in 2008. ]]> 2018-11-16 19:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/305430724 Dao-Yi Chow claire_renaud https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/308625634 By Claire Renaud
Dao-Yi Chow was born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens and is one-half of the design duo behind the brand Public School. He met Maxwell Osborne while working at the Sean John label in the 2000's and they would later collaborate together to create Public School.  The signature style of the brand is,  "layered, monochrome men’s wear, clothes that added tailoring to familiar slouchy elements of athletic and urban wear, rejiggering them as a new kind of masculine uniform.". Neither men had formal design training but the clothes were very well received and they were inducted into the Council of Fashion Designer's of America in 2010. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/fashion/mens-style/new-york-cool-dkny-public-school-dao-yi-chao-maxwell-osborne.html]]> 2018-11-28 04:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/308625634 Eunice Lee irishtaters https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/313928966 By Ruby O'Reilly

Eunice Lee has spent a large portion of her life in New York City. She attended the Parsons school of design and after graduation began designing for a number of large corporations. She did this for 6 years, eventually landing a position at Donna Karan designing for DKNY's menswear line.  Eventually Eunice created her very own brand called, UNIS. She opened her first boutique store in nolita in 2000 and it has since became a sort of signature of the neighborhood. In 2010, Lee was nominated for best menswear designer in America by the CFDA and she remains a member of the CFDA. Most recently, she has opened another boutique in Los Angeles where she spends a lot of her time. Her major focus fashion-wise, is in high quality well-made basics.

https://cfda.com/members/profile/eunice-lee
https://www.complex.com/style/2012/05/10-asian-american-fashion-designers-you-should-know/eunice-lee]]> 2018-12-12 16:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fitonline/Asian_American_Designers/wish/313928966