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Jason Wu Biography

Jason Wu (Chinese: 吳季剛; pinyin: Wú Jìgāng; born September 27, 1982) is a Canadian artist and fashion designer based in New York City. Born in Taiwan and raised in Vancouver, he studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design, and trained under Narciso Rodriguez before launching his own line.

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Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.

Clothes, Designer, Designers, Streets, Translated

In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do. " I just liked pretty things.

Home, Kids, Parent, American, Leave

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

Antithesis, Disposable, Fashion, Hope

I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

Angelina, Paris, Pastries, Pastry, Romance, Shop

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.

Buy, Love, Quantity, Special, Values

I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

Character, Flip, House, Love, Space

I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

Like, Needs, Part, Sleep, World

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.

Came, Designer, Term, Terms, Transformed, Want

My parents are very comfortable with the way that I am, and I think they've always been. Without that, I don't think that I would have ever have been able to grow into the person that I am today. I never felt like I was hiding anything from them.

Able, Felt, Like, Parent, Person, Thinking

I was very preppy in my childhood. I also went through an anti-clothing moment where I just wanted to wear sweats because I'd just moved to Canada. My mom was always trying to get me into proper clothes, but I never wanted to wear them, and now that's all I wear.

Always Trying, Clothes, Mom, Moment, Proper, Sweat

You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

Collection, Creating, Fast, Next, Season, Two

I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch. I mean, that's why I went into this business to begin with.

Beautiful, Begin, Mean, Think, Thinking, Wrong

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

Careers, Fashion, Worked, Years

I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines.

Canada, English, Exposed, Fashion, Magazines

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

Career, Careers, Dresses, Way, Woman

I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race.

Fashion, Favorite, Mean, Think, Thinking

I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

Became, Designer, Goal, Kind, Possible, Thinking

I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.

Anymore, Bullying, Hard, Hard Times, School, Time

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

Glamorous, Littles, Mischievous, Times, Want

I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. In so many ways, were always playing a form of dress-up - its just a grown-up, much chicer version of it. Its nice to be able to be whoever you want to be.

Beautiful, Clothing, Nice, Thinking, Transformative, Ways

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