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It’s becoming a very, very Vera Wang world

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We love Vera Wang, she of the quiet, beautiful wedding dresses, the lavender ribbons, the chic clothes that are actually - OMG - wearable. She who knows that pretty is not a vera-wang-bridal-dress-verawangonweddings-comsin. She who peeks almost hesitantly from behind the scenes of yet another gorgeous runway show, and then designs an affordable line for Kohl’s that embodies the same philosophies.

We’re about to nominate her, however, for our 2009 Bigger Than Martha Award, given to a celebrity becoming ubiquitous enough to risk overexposure.

No, Ms. Wang is not icing cakes with fondant or replacing window screens with abandon (we hope); nor does she have her own television series (yet). But there’s no denying that she’s getting hard to keep up with. Let’s take a whirl around her world:

After two years of planning and construction, Wang finally opened her Soho store this winter, a mammoth white concoction with 40-foot ceilings and movable walls designed to showcase her ready-to-wear designs (her other two New York stores focus on bridal wear). Dozens of NY’s fashion and media glitterati attended the opening, contributing to the buzz.”I thought it was the perfect market for my kind of couture-meets-street,” she told Fashion Week Daily.

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Let’s see, what else? Oh yes. She designs her wedding line (here’s a gorgeous strapless taffeta, $5,000-$8,000, above left), puts together a few runway and ready to wear collections each year (we’re loving this jeweled charcoal gown, $462), designs her Lavender Label (like this cute print wrap dress, $440, above right) and crafts the Simply Vera Vera Wang collection for Kohl’s  (who wouldn’t love wearing this to the office? Especially for $78).

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You’ll also find her name on an entire collection of fragrances (Bouquet, Wishes, Truly Pink, Look, Princess and Sheer Veil), on china, crystal, flatware and gifts for Waterford (do you love her Baby Collection, $50-$295?, above left), on personal stationery for William Arthur - you can even find them at Hallmark - and even on a whole slew of bouquets for FTD (this one is gorgeous, and surprise, it’s in shades of purple, $80, above right).

Somewhere in there, she also found the inspiration to contribute a T-shirt design for Barack Obama’s Runway to Change collection ($60); Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway conduct their Bridal Wars warfare in two gorgeous Vera Wang gowns (below), and a Bride Wars contest that ends Jan. 19 will award eight (eight!) Vera Wang bridesmaid dresses to the winner, her place settings to the second-place entry, and her linens to the third-place winner.

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Oh, and there’s one more little thing: On Jan. 23, she’ll be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame. That’s right - as a junior, she apparently cut quite a figure on the ice before she turned to cutting designs in the studio. She’s nominated in the “Outstanding Candidates with a Creative Impact” category, and we think we’ve proven why.

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 jessy // Feb 23, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    omg i love the vera wang dress wore by kate hudson in bride wars! i want that dress in my very own day

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