Nothing makes Yinghua Vera Wang, who goes by “Vera,” happier than hearing a bunch of little girls running around her events saying, “I am enough!”
“I want to transform people’s lives in how we see beauty,” Wang said. “I owned a fashion manufacturing company and had a lot of success, but I wasn’t fulfilled. I have always struggled with body image. I always told myself I was fat and ugly even when I was a size 2 or 4. The fashion industry didn’t help. I knew I could create a platform to change the way we see beauty, and that is how Miss Fashion Week was born.”
Her “You Are Enough” campaign is a part of Miss Fashion Week which bridges modeling competitions with pageants. As a nonprofit, the purpose of the platform is to empower women by using fashion as their media and the runway as their platform to raise generations of strong daughters.
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