Jason Wu is a Taiwan-born American fashion designer. He began learning how to sew as a 9 year-old in Vancouver by designing and sewing for dolls, and went on to study sculpture in Tokyo. He decided he wanted to be a fashion designer while spending his senior year of high school in Paris.
He enrolled in Parsons the New School for Design and interned with Narciso Rodriguez. His first full collection debuted in 2006 and won the Fashion Group International’s Rising Star award in 2008. Michelle Obama wore one of Wu’s dresses for a segment on The Barbara Walters Special right before the election, prompting many in the media to consider Michelle Obama his “career-launcher”.
