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“I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.”

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Jason Wu, born on September 27, 1982, is a renowned fashion designer from Taiwan. His unique design style, which blends Eastern and Western elements, has won him great popularity among the fashion industry and celebrities. Wu graduated from Parsons The New School for Design in 2004 and quickly made a name for himself in the fashion world. His designs have been showcased at international fashion weeks and have been featured in numerous fashion magazines. more

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“The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.”

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“What I was interested in wasn't popular and young, but I never really deviated from doing it. I just decided that I was going to go full force into exactly what I wanted. I think there's a certain comfort that comes with age and experience, and when I got that, I think my work got better.”

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“As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.”

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“The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.”

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“Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.”

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“In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.”

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