Vera Wang

She has a brother, Kenneth Wang.

Her husband is the CEO of an information technology services company called Navisite.

She designed a dress for Buffy, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and appeared in the episode "The Prom."

She has designed dresses for Avril Lavigne, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez and for skaters like Michelle Kwan.

She lives in New York City with her husband, Arthur Becker, and their two daughters, Josephine and Cecilia, who are adopted.

In June 2005, she won the CFDA or the Council of the Fashion Designers of America, women's wear Designer of the Year.

She penned the book, Vera Wang on Weddings, in October, 2001.

In 1990, she opened her own design salon in the Carlyle Hotel in New York which featured her trademark bridal gowns.

On May 27, 2006, she was awarded the André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

She appears as a guest judge in the third season of Project Runway.

She was a senior fashion editor for Vogue magazine.

Vera trained as a figure skater which she competed at the 1968 U.S. Figure Skating Championships but didn't make the team.

Her paternal grandfather was a military general in China.

Vera's father started and owned a chemical company.

Vera's mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris.

Vera attended the Chapin School, the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history.