Next Wave of Asian Designers Hits NY Fashion Week

A new wave of Asian designers already accomplished at home hopes to follow suit at New York Fashion Week.

Designer Zhuliang Li 

The newest designers to arrive are Asian-born and Asian-trained, looking to make inroads in the lucrative U.S. fashion market.

One of the best known is Vera Wang, known for her wedding gowns and who recently designed one for celebrity Kim Kardashian.

MIchelle Obama

Then came designers born in Asia but trained in the United States, such as Jason Wu, whose styles have been worn by first lady Michelle Obama.

He is equally fascinated by the construction of traditional Parisian couture and, at the moment, by the women of New York and the way in which they approach fashion.