Break Into the International Fashion Design, Asian Designers Rising up in Fashion World

Asian names of designers are popping out in fashion week these years and making the progress in the U.S fashion market. They have their own fashion business well on the fashion catwalks in America. Their early predecessors, by comparison, had Asian heritage but were U.S.-born and U.S.-trained designers. Some of Asian designers were born in Asia but trained in the United States, and they brings a stronger sense of their own cultures, mixed with Western sensibilities and it can be fresh element into the international fashion world.

Jason Wu

He is Taiwanese Canadian fashion designer and based in New York who open his namesake label in 2006 and his work is best known for designing the dress for Michelle Obama on several events. The design style is like ladylike, chic, simple and modern.

Crystal Wang

A defining rising star in Taiwanese American fashion, Crystal Wang, heiress to Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp had humble beginnings, opening a mixed marquee boutique in Taipei after gradating from USC. Vanitas came to quick fame, carrying names such as ACNE, Bless’ed Are the Meek, Calla, Helmut Lang, Jeremy Laing, Super Retro Future, and many more. Influenced and inspired, Crystal launches and designs her self-titled brand, Crystal Wang in 2011 to great reception in Asia.

Joseph Altuzarra

He's an Asian-American fashion designer, who graduated from Swarthmore college with a B.A. in Art and Art History, and proceeded to New York and interned under Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler. After back to his native Paris, where he firstly worked as first assistant to Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, he owned his design skills by focusing on tailoring and draping in the RTW collection. He also won the 2014 womenswear design of the year in CFDA.

Alexander Wang

American-Asian fashion designer and currently the creative of director of Balenciaga. He’s young and has seen the success of his line skyrocket to popularity in just four years. When you look at girls who wore the military jacket with leather sleeves, he is the one who created it. He also won the 2014 womenswear designer of the year in CFDA.