With the "advanced age" of 70+, you can also bring your own topic as soon as you appear, except for the "wedding queen" Wang Weiwei (Vera Wang), there are few, right?
Last year, when she celebrated her 72nd birthday, this group of black-haired yellow dresses and handsome men surrounded by birthday photos were on the hot search, causing a lot of discussion.
Everyone expressed shock: they did not expect that a 72-year-old woman could be so hot and beautiful, which completely subverted everyone's inherent perception of "72-year-old women".
There are also controversial voices: whether the photo is meticulously P, whether Wang Jie has done medical beauty...
Frankly speaking, celebrities like Vera Wang, who have been exposed in the spotlight for a long time, have been photographed by the media at various times. If the contrast between the front and back is too large, everyone can see it at a glance.
The dress of about 55 years old, the overall bias towards powerful women, more emphasis on momentum, has not yet pursued too much "sense of youth".
A few years ago, the state at the age of 65, in fact, was not as good as it is now, and the eye bags betrayed the sense of age.
Now the state is rejuvenated, anti-aging to unscientific, looks younger and more energetic, not only reflected in the state of the face. It can be seen from the figure: Sister Wang is very strict with her appearance management, and she has made great efforts.
After all, women at this age can also show the muscle lines on their arms, which is not the effect that medical aesthetic means can achieve.
Recently, she was interviewed by a BBC reporter. Watching the state of Sister Wang on the video, she can still play very well.
For the huge discussion caused by birthday photos, atmospheric positive responses were:
I was shocked, but I didn't feel explicit.
To tell the truth, people live to veraWang's job, rich, famous and free, what others think, it is really not important. Maybe in recent years, Vera Wang's business has also entered the right track, no longer need to do it herself, so she simply dares to be herself, dresses up beautifully, and is happy every day.
Vera Wang's legendary life experience, which we have written about before. Today I would like to share with you some stories outside of fashion to help you have a deeper interpretation from the perspective of women's continuous growth.
If you want to understand why The Chinese girl Wang Weiwei can become the "wedding queen" Vera Wang, you must first understand her family origins.
Wang Weiwei was born in June 1949 in New York, USA, to first-generation immigrants born in China.
Wang Weiwei's father, ChengChing Wang or C.C. Wang, a native of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, was born in 1918 and was the younger son of Lieutenant General Wang Wenxuan of Chiang Kai-shek's government.
His grandfather, Wang Wenxuan, was born in 1889 and graduated from the fourth phase of the Army University in December 1916. At the same time, many cadets became senior generals in the Northern Expeditionary Army, as well as important military and political figures during the Nationalist government period, and Wang Weiwei's grandfather's military career did not have any special brilliance in that heroic era, but it was also quite stable.
After graduating, Wang Wenxuan started as an instructor at the Shanxi Army Academy and served as a successor company commander, battalion commander, regimental commander, division commander, section chief, division chief, and artillery supervision director, and was awarded the rank of major general in February 1936. He served as director of military affairs of the Military Affairs Department of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and was promoted to lieutenant general in July 1946, and during the Liberation War, he retired to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek.
(Left: Wang Wenxuan Right: Wang Weiwei and Wang Qingqing)
Wang, who came from a military family, clarified that his studies were very good. Judging from his early experience in studying and working, his professional achievements in his own profession depended on himself, and his career achievements did not touch the light of his general father.
After graduating from the Department of Chemistry at Yenching University, he worked for an oil smelting company in Chongqing and joined the Kuomintang as a lieutenant colonel during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
In 1942, he married Wang Weiwei's mother, Florence Wu, in Chongqing. The following year, Wang flew over the Himalayas to India, arrived in the United States on an unarmed British ship, and earned a master's degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
During his stay in the United States, he worked for some time in the industry's top DuPont and Poston before returning to China in 1947, retiring with the rank of colonel. Later, due to the resurgence of civil war, Wang returned to the United States and founded Summit Industrial in 1948 with three MIT classmates.
Their business moved from the United States to the Far East, established international drug distribution, trade and oil businesses, and became the pioneers of the first modern industries in Asia after World War II.
When Wang clarified that when his business territory was at its largest, he worked and traveled in Southeast Asia for a long time, away from his family. It could be because of loneliness, or it could be that successful men have difficulty concentrating on their feelings, and he has at least one long-time cohabitation, traveling together, 29 years younger than his girlfriend Betty.
After Wu Chifang's death in 2004, Betty kept clarifying the forced marriage to Wang, forcing him to issue a notarized letter indicating their relationship.
Wang clarified in the letter that he had informed his children and reiterated clearly to his girlfriend:
He had no intention of marrying her. Under any conditions, the two could not marry in the future; he had provided her with enough money that he would not give her any more money, asked her to confirm her renunciation of clarifying to the king and the family that there was an anomaly; and asked her not to come to America to see him and to stay away from his children.
Although the girlfriend signed the parting letter, she was still fighting a lawsuit until his death, saying that Wang Clarified had promised to give her a $10 million gift + $150,000 in pocket money per year.
The case was later handled by Wang Weiwei's lawyers, and in the end the judge ruled that Wang Qingqing had been generous to his girlfriend before her death, and there was no evidence that she was forced to sign any documents, so he ruled that she lost the case.
Compared with this "red face", Wang Qingqing's wife, Wu Chifang, who is also Wang Weiwei's mother, is much more low-key.
Wu Chifang is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and the younger daughter of Wu Jinbiao, the governor of Jiangxi Province during the Beiyang warlord era.
Wu Jinbiao was born in a reckless and fought for many years, but he attached great importance to education, so that he could have Wu Chifang's study experience at Southwest United University. After marrying Wang Qingqing, who was the right doorman, he did not just blindly become a rich wife when he moved to the United States, but worked as a translator at the United Nations, and his personal quality was very good.
In the introduction of Wang Weiwei's childhood on the Internet, it is basically said that she lived in a mansion from a young age, went to private school, went to Paris during the holidays to shop with her parents, and took figure skating courses that her parents spent a lot of money to cultivate... She seems to be a standard rich woman.
However, in many interviews after Sister Wang became famous, she did not show an attitude of gratitude for the cultivation of the family and determination to become a "family light that makes parents proud", and her feelings about the family are relatively free and indifferent.
She never felt like she had to get married, which also explains why she didn't marry until she was 40, had no children, chose to adopt two small children, and divorced after 23 years.
A related gossip in recent years is that her little boyfriend, who had been in love for several years after divorce, later got married, and even the wedding dress was Vera Wang's. Many people praise Sister Wang's atmosphere, in fact, doesn't this show that in fact, Sister Wang does not care about the marriage paper at all?
For other ex-girlfriends, what may be concerned is "I am more beautiful than the bride, I am better than the bride"; for Sister Wang, this is nothing more than "make money, whose money is not earned?" Next time you get married, look for me again 20% off! ”
Although Wang Weiwei's childhood life was stable and rich, and her parents attached importance to and supported her cultivation, she may not have felt much family warmth.
Father has been away for a long time, his love life is also colorful, and he loves to play golf and buy luxury goods, and it is difficult to say how much is left to be given to her emotionally.
In addition, Wang Weiwei also had a younger brother named Kenneth Wang, who later followed her father's footsteps to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In the traditional family of son preference, parents do not have much career expectations for Wang Weiwei except for "marrying a good family".
Perhaps because of this, it stimulated Wang Weiwei's competitive spirit, hoping to do her best and get her father's affirmation.
Facts have also proved that Wang Weiwei's career is much more successful than her brother's.
After finishing MIT, my brother worked in the shipping and finance industries for several years, and then went to Harvard for an MBA. Because he didn't want to work for others, he inherited his father's company and has been managing it until now. Career success is not the same as that of my sister, but I can also be regarded as a down-to-earth, non-tossing "second generation".
He also inherited his father's love of golf in terms of interests, and also designed several golf courses himself.
Whether it is compared with my sister or my father, even if it is not compared to my career, it is more exciting than my life, and I can only say that I am useless and a little boring.
For Wang Weiwei, her father may not be a warm and loving father, but he is an alternative nobleman in her career.
Wang Weiwei has repeatedly talked about her father's great influence on her in two aspects: one is that she has heard about it since she was a child, which has made her develop a love of fashion; the other is business shrewdness and ambition.
Not only was her father the first angel investor to see the potential of her wedding dress career and invest in her, but he also took matters into his own business operations, serving as the chairman of her company and helping her run it until 1998, when the company was on the right track.
(At the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, Sharon Stone's long dress was Vera Wang, praised by the fashion circle: her imagination had reached the highest point of dressing for the party, and Hollywood finally had a standard appearance.)
Wang Weiwei always has an idealistic and beautiful fantasy about fashion design, but her father will tell her very rationally and practically: everything is a business, including fashion. The father's many years of experience in the sea of business helped his daughter land the beautiful vision, which became a real money-making business and continued to carry it forward.
Her lifelong belief in hard work also came from her father.
Although in the eyes of the public, VeraWang is a goddess of life, but from her own point of view, she has also experienced many setbacks.
Practiced professional figure skating for 16 years from an early age, and finally could not qualify for the competition, and could only retire;
Later, after 17 years of diligent work in "Vogue", he withstood the test of a very strict boss, learned the real kung fu in the industry, and still did not get the opportunity he wanted to be a fashion designer.
At the age of 40, her father was finally willing to invest in his own company, but he was only willing to invest in her wedding dress business and opposed her to do other women's clothing designs (Zhinu Moruo's father, which later proved very correct in business)
It wasn't until she was about 60 years old, and she was approaching grandma's level in the industry, that she finally did what she wanted to do decades ago. It can really be said that it is a typical example of Jiang Ziya and late growth of the fashion industry.
In the past few decades, as a woman with a superior birth, Sister Wang has countless opportunities to give up her dreams, not to work, to rely on her parents to nibble on the old, or to marry a New York investment banker, raise a few children, participate in various charity dinners every day, and usually engage in art activities... But she didn't choose that way.
She chose to prove herself and fulfill herself with hard work, just like her father started from scratch in the United States, exchanging her efforts for her and her family's choice of life.
In the genes of this family, there is a steady and steady toughness.
From Wang Weiwei's grandfather, to her father, to Wang Weiwei herself, and even her brother, their career map is particularly simple, almost all of them are an academic and career direction from beginning to end for decades, and finally they have achieved good results.
They are not the kind of talented, young talents, and their achievements in the early years are lackluster, and there must be many career troughs that are not enough for outsiders. What is rare is that they can resist the temptation, be willing to be bland, and keep their inherent position in a down-to-earth manner. When we encounter good opportunities, we will arch our heads day by day and move forward steadily.
In particular, Wang Weiwei can operate solidly for decades in an industry where she has no innate advantages at all, and kill a road of her own success, in which the courage to endure and dare to wait is really a scarce quality for young people today.
On the day of her father's death, she rushed to say goodbye to his father in the morning, and in the afternoon, as planned, she launched her new season of fashion designs as planned, and dedicated this season's fashion to his father. Whether it is career or life, she has probably lived to become what her father wants most, and she should have been a son.
Back to the very beginning, Sister Wang shared the secret recipe for staying in the face, in addition to sleeping and drinking vodka, she also shared one of the reasons she valued most: work.
She said:
In fact, I never thought of desperately maintaining my youth, I entered the fashion industry at the age of 19, and the objects of my work are the most beautiful women in the world, they are my inspiration muse, every day is affecting me, this may also be a very effective way for me to fight aging.
Wang Weiwei, 72, said she wouldn't think too much about aging, and what she usually wore wouldn't be much different from what she said in the photo. But seeing the various hot reviews of her on the Internet, she felt very proud, because she could let everyone, including men and women, have a new understanding of age:
"Age discrimination actually exists forever throughout a person's life. When you're young, you want to do something, but you can't, because you're not old enough; when you want to be CEO, others may also say, you can't, because you're too young, in fact, these are also age discrimination."
"But in fact, age is just a physiological number, I can still feel my own growth every day, and I am still growing my wisdom and experience, so age discrimination is really too old-fashioned!" 」
American psychologist Bernice Newgarten proposed the concept of "social clock" in 1976, he believes that social culture expects people to complete a series of major events in a specific time, in a specific order, such as study, work, marriage, and children in their lifetime. If he does not follow this process, culture will punish him accordingly.
But in this life, Wang Weiwei has not succumbed to rules and regulations, has not been trapped by the old yellow calendar of "what should be done at what age", but has relied on her own self-discipline and efforts to go against the "social clock" and live a unique life in her own time zone.
Not every girl needs to maintain the same anti-aging state of Wang Weiwei at the age of 72, but if every girl can still have her current wisdom and enthusiasm for life at the age of 72, then the world will really be better and better.