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| November 01, 2006 | Talley, Andre Leon | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Andre Leon Talley

Around 1:00 a.m. on the eve of her spring show, Vera Wang received a phone call saying that her father, C. C. Wang, who was 87 and had been ill, was fading. She rushed to Southampton, Long Island, and was by his bedside in his lingering moments. Then she returned to the city and to the work she loves. The show must go on.

If Wang worked in Paris, she would be touted as a genius. Spring 2007 was glorious, a poignant show full of artful grace and Eastern influences-the seduction of a geisha's robe, ...

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