Do you remember the dress worn by Michelle Obama, first lady of the US, at the inaugural ball? Actually, that beautiful white dress was designed by a 26-year-old, Taiwan-born designer Jason Wu (吳季剛). Wu was born in Taipei, and moved to Canada when he was nine years old. It is incredible that Wu knew at age five that being a fashion designer was his goal, and his non-traditional Chinese parents who did not ask their son to be a doctor or lawyer, always accompanied their son and backed him up. At age sixteen, Wu started to be the designer of Barbie clothes, and he learned how to deal with small, detailed designs from doing this. Afterward, he created his own brand and began to design for "big Barbies", including the first lady.
What did Wu think when he saw the inaugural ball? He said that he did not know that the first lady would choose his dress in advance, so he was watching TV while eating pizza at home, and when he saw his dress on the TV, he could not believe it's all happened. Before the inauguration, Wu was an unknown young guy; after the inauguration, he is a fashion star.
Though he is famous and has hold a successful runway show, Wu remains humble,thinking that he still has a lot of things to learn and to work on. And it is interesting that again, when Michelle Obama on the cover of Vogue magazine wearing a dress designed by Wu, he had know idea. He saw it on the Internet, and he thought,"Oh my god. I think I made this dress." We can say that the inaugural ball really turned Wu into an overnight reputation.
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Horray for Chinese fashion desingers! I heard that Anna Sui is also a Taiwanese, who makes beautiful clothes as well.
Should "he had know idea" in the last paragraph be corrected into "he had no idea?"
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