It's our first-ever Taiwanese American Professionals (TAP) Taipei meetup! There will be mingling, taco-ing and hearing about a visiting TAP Chicagoan's recent rollercoaster ride through startup creation, pivots, patents, surprising consumer insights, sweating 2nd round interviews at Y-Combinator, and more! THIS IS FREE but please RSVP so we know how many are down to taco! ABOUT JEFF CHENG:
Jeff is visiting us from Chicago where he founded Runchkins, a fashion technology start-up for parents…
Like many, I had never heard of Jason Wu until that fateful night in November of 2008, a night where Michele Obama single-handedly put the designer on the map. But like many, I have been a fan ever since. Born in Taiwan, Jason Wu developed a penchant for fashion early on. By age 9, he started sketching and experimenting with fashion by using dolls as mannequins. He attended Parsons The New School for Design after high school but never graduated. Following an internship at Narcisco Rodriguez, Jason…
Article By ERIC WILSON
Published: September 4, 2010 on www.nytimes.com
A version of this article appeared in print on September 5, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition. [caption id="attachment_2937" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Jason Wu after his runway show at New York Fashion Week in February. Brendan McDermid/Reuters"][/caption] The mood was set early at the American fashion awards ceremony at Lincoln Center in June, an event often likened to the Oscars of the fashion…
