Editing Vera Wang (section)

== Early life ==
Vera Ellen Wang was born June 27, 1949,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/vera-wang-celebrates-72nd-birthday-style-cher-sort-t224426|work=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]|title=Vera Wang celebrates 72nd birthday in style with Cher (sort of)|last=Koenig|first=Ronnie|date=July 3, 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211014014725/https://www.today.com/popculture/vera-wang-celebrates-72nd-birthday-style-cher-sort-t224426|archive-date=October 14, 2021|access-date=October 14, 2021}}</ref> in New York City to [[Chinese people|Chinese]] parents who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1940s. Her mother, Florence Wu (Wu Chifang), worked as a translator for the [[United Nations]], while her father, Cheng Ching Wang (Wang Chengqing), a graduate of [[Yanjing University]] and [[MIT]], owned a medicine company, and held the following positions: Director, Singapore Petroleum Company Pte. Ltd., Chairman & President, Oceanic Petroleum Corporation, Chairman & President, Oceanic Petroleum (Asia) Corporation, Chairman & President of Summit Group of Companies (now [[U.S. Summit Company]]), Chairman of the Vera Wang Group 1990-1998.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2006-10-01 |title=Paid Notice: Deaths WANG, C.C. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/classified/paid-notice-deaths-wang-cc.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Wang has one brother, Kenneth, who is a life member of MIT Corporation, a board of trustees that governs the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://corporation.mit.edu/all-members/kenneth-wang | title=Kenneth Wang &#124; the MIT Corporation }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/wang-didn-married-mistress-article-1.1065832|title=C.C. Wang didn't want married mistress |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=April 23, 2012|first=Bill|last=Hutchinson}}</ref>

Wang began [[figure skating]] at the age of eight, training under [[Peter Dunfield]] and [[Sonya Klopfer]] in Denver during the summers and with the [[Skating Club of New York]] during the rest of the year.<ref name="nyt111220">{{cite news |last=Barsamian |first=Edward |date=December 20, 2011 |title=Vera on Ice |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/vera-on-ice/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201124735/https://archive.nytimes.com/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/vera-on-ice/ |archive-date=1 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="ITNY">{{cite web |url=https://www.icetheatre.org/index.php?id=96 |title=ITNY Honors Vera Wang |date=January–February 2004 |website=IceTheatre.org |publisher=Ice Theatre of New York |access-date=29 April 2022}}</ref> While in high school, she trained with [[pair skating|pairs]] partner James Stuart, and competed at the 1968 [[U.S. Figure Skating Championships]]. She was featured in ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''{{'s}} ''[[Faces in the Crowd (Sports Illustrated)|Faces in the Crowd]]'' in the January 9, 1968 issue.<ref>''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', December 15, 2006, p. 66</ref> When she failed to make the [[United States at the Olympics|U.S. Olympics]] team, she said, "I was devastated when I did not qualify for the Olympic team."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goh |first=ZK |date=November 3, 2020 |title=Vera Wang talks about her Olympics ambitions |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/vera-wang-talks-about-her-olympics-ambitions |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=olympics.com}}</ref> Then she entered the fashion industry.<ref>{{cite book |title=Vera Wang (A&E Biography) |last=Krohn |first=Katherine |year=2006 |publisher=Twenty-First Century Books |isbn=0-8225-6612-5 |page=112 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmJ7doZXP0QC}}</ref> Wang continues to enjoy skating, saying, "Skating is multidimensional".<ref name=nyt111220 />

Wang attended [[Friends Seminary]],<ref name="Going">{{cite magazine |last=Allen |first=Emma |date=6 April 2015 |title=Going Once, Going Twice |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |issue=April 13, 2015 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/art-and-commerce-going-once-going-twice |url-status=live |access-date=February 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522110541/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/13/art-and-commerce-going-once-going-twice |archive-date=22 May 2023}}</ref> graduated from [[Chapin School]] in 1967, attended the [[University of Paris]], and earned a degree in [[art history]] from [[Sarah Lawrence College]]. 

In 1968, Wang was presented as a [[debutante]] to [[High society (social class)|high society]] at the [[International Debutante Ball]] at the [[Waldorf Astoria New York]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Vera Wang: Enduring Style|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hd0PrIc9S3AC&q=vera+wang+international+debutante+ball&pg=PA92|newspaper=USA Today|isbn = 9781580135726|access-date=December 30, 2017|last1 = Krohn|first1 = Katherine E.|date = September 2008}}</ref>