Vivienne Tam - Fashion Designer
Vivienne Tam was born 1957 in Guangzhou, China and moved to Hong Kong at the age of three. She is a fashion designer based in New York City. She attended Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Tam's clothing brand is named after her and is inspired by Chinese design and modern fashion. The theme of first collection was "East Wind Code." Her shops can be found in most major cities around the world. She authored China Chic, a book on Chinese style. She has worked with Hewlett Packard on a special Vivienne Tam range of designer netbook computers
Chinese Fashion Designers with International Success
Betty Charnuis & Vivienne Tam well-known China-born fashion designers. Fashion designers from all over Asia help create the tens of thousand of dresses, suits, shoes, and other clothing and accessories purchased every year by consumers worldwide. On this page we have chosen a few notable from China, see also China Fashion Designer & Brand
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Betty Charnuis - China-born Fashion Designer
Betty Charnuis was born Princess Betanana Char-nuis Borjigit Clemos in Shanghai. She was a Eurasia by birth belonging to the Mongol Borjigit clan. At the outbreak of WWII she fled China with the help of her friend Princess Der Ling. She changed her name to Betty and worked in New York as a fashion designer. She later got married and moved to Hong Kong in the late 1950s to start her own fashion house at the Peninsula Hotel. She worked active here in the 1950s until the end of the 1990s. Her business started to decline with the rise of Ready-to-wear in the 1980s. She hold onto her business until the 1990s and finally closed her atelier down in 1997, when the practice of couture and made-to-measure fashion became obsolete
Asian Fashion Designers
Famous Clothing People in Asia Find out more about your favorite Asian fashion designer