{{Short description|American fashion designer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox fashion designer | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = | name = Angel Chang | death_date = | death_place = | education = Columbia University <br> Barnard College | occupation = | label_name = ANGEL CHANG | awards = Cartier Women's Initiative Award, 2007 <br> Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award, 2007| }}

'''Angel Chang'''<ref name="auto">{{cite news|last=Foreman|first=Liza|title=Inspiration From China's Villages|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/fashion/Designer-Inspired-by-Chinas-Villages.html|accessdate=2023-07-15|newspaper=International New York Times|date=21 November 2013 |place=Paris}}</ref> is an American fashion designer and early pioneer in the cross-over between fashion and technology.<ref name="auto1">{{cite news|last=Foreman|first=Liza|title=Smart Designs|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7e3f1f80-4632-11e2-ae8d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2qrYeKEJw|accessdate=19 January 2014|newspaper=Financial Times|date=4 January 2013}}</ref> She received the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award and Cartier Women's Initiative Award in 2007. The revival of endangered traditional Chinese hand-craftsmanship translated into modern designs is the philosophy behind her current womenswear label ANGEL CHANG.

==Early life and education== Chang was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana, and is of Chinese descent. Her parents were born in Shanghai, China, and Fujian, China, and came to the United States in the mid-1950s. As a teenager in Indiana, she wrote a long letter seeking career advice to Anna Sui, who responded by inviting Chang to an internship at her studio in New York City.<ref name="auto2">{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Carol|title=Beautiful People 2007: Angel Chang|url=http://www.papermag.com/2007/03/beautiful_people_2007_angel_chang.php|accessdate=19 January 2014|newspaper=PAPER|date=23 March 2007}}</ref> A year later, Chang moved to New York City to begin her internship at Anna Sui while studying art history at Barnard College. She later trained in the design studios of Marc Jacobs and Viktor & Rolf.

Chang received an M.A. in Modern Art: Critical Studies from Columbia University, where she studied with fashion historians Richard Martin and Valerie Steele. As a graduate student, she published articles in ''Encyclopedia of Clothing & Fashion''<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofcl00vale|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=0-684-31451-7}}</ref> and ''Fashion Theory''. She wrote online runway reviews for ''French Vogue'' and was a freelance journalist to various fashion magazines. In 2004, she co-founded and was Editor-in-Chief of downtown New York indie quarterly ''Me Magazine''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Memo Pad: The Me Generation|url=https://www.wwd.com/media-news/memo-pad-from-bad-to-worse-the-me-generation-making-friends-in-motown-702428/print-preview/?navSection=issues&navId=|accessdate=19 January 2014|newspaper=WWD|date=31 August 2004}}</ref>

==Career==

Chang began her design career as a Design Assistant for Womenswear at Donna Karan Collection in New York.

Her eponymous collection ANGEL CHANG launched in 2006 in New York and became known for its innovative use of future fabrics like color-changing prints light-up fabrics, and self-heating linings.<ref>{{cite news|last=Amed|first=Imran|title=Angel Chang: High-tech meets high-fashion|url=http://www.businessoffashion.com/2008/04/angel-chang-high-tech-meets-high-fashion.html|accessdate=19 January 2014|newspaper=The Business of Fashion|date=15 April 2008}}</ref> She was an early pioneer in the cross-over between fashion and technology<ref name="auto1"/> and received the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award and Cartier Women's Initiative Award within the first year of launching. Chang was also featured in ''PAPER'' magazine's 10th Annual "Beautiful People" Issue<ref name="auto2"/> as one of the top emerging talents influencing the fashion field.

In 2009, Chang appeared as a contestant on ''The Fashion Show'', a design competition reality television show on Bravo network. She was the first contestant on an American reality television show to use Twitter as a real-time live-chat platform to speak directly with TV audiences.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kansara|first=Vikram Alexei|title=Fashion 2.0: Angel Chang's Tech-Fashion Comes to Television|url=http://www.businessoffashion.com/2009/06/fashion-20-angel-changs-tech-fashion-comes-to-television.html|accessdate=19 January 2014|newspaper=The Business of Fashion|date=1 June 2009}}</ref>

Since 2009, Angel has worked closely with fabric masters in the rural mountain villages of Guizhou Province, China where ethnic minority tribes (Miao, Dong) have maintained 1000-year-old fabric-making traditions using all-natural processes.<ref>{{cite book|last=Corrigan|first=Gina|title=Miao National Minority|publisher=Berg|pages=197–195|url=http://www.bergfashionlibrary.com/staticfiles/Encyclopedia/Miao-National-Minority-Fashion-Dress.pdf}}</ref> The Atelier ANGEL CHANG collection (launched in 2013) mixes traditional fabrics with modern silhouettes and is produced with a nearly zero carbon footprint. Its aims are to create employment opportunities in impoverished rural villages and to promote global appreciation for endangered indigenous craftsmanship.<ref name="auto"/>

She has designed internationally for luxury fashion brands Donna Karan Collection (New York) and Chloe (Paris), and most recently as Head Designer of Lululemon Lab, the innovation incubator of Lululemon Athletica (Vancouver).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ted.com/profiles/6461251|title=Angel Chang|website=www.ted.com|access-date=19 April 2018}}</ref>

In 2016, she became a TED Resident at TED headquarters in New York. She is taking what she has learned about indigenous crafts and applying that knowledge to make the fashion industry more sustainable.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-fall-2016-class-of-ted-residents/|title=Meet the Fall 2016 class of TED Residents|date=20 September 2016|publisher=|access-date=19 April 2018}}</ref>

==Awards== * Cartier Women's Initiative Award, 2007<ref>{{cite web|title=LAUREATE 2007 FOR NORTH AMERICA|url=http://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/candidate/angel-chang|publisher=Cartier Women's Initiative Awards|accessdate=19 January 2014}}</ref> * Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award, 2007<ref>{{cite web|title=Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Past Winners |url=https://eccodomani.com/fashion-foundation/award-winners/index.asp |publisher=Ecco Domani |accessdate=19 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202101010/https://eccodomani.com/fashion-foundation/award-winners/index.asp |archivedate=2 February 2014 }}</ref>

==See also== * Chinese Americans in New York City

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==Further reading== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202134804/http://cn.tmagazine.com/fashion/20131205/t05chinadesign/dual/ Foreman, Liza (5 December 2013). "时装设计师到中国下乡觅得灵感". ''T: The New York Times Style Magazine'' (Chinese version)] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040628/http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features/Shopping__Style-Shopping_features/20580/Angel-Changs-Miao-style.html Shleh, Selena (July 8, 2014). "Angel Chang's Miao style". ''Time Out Shanghai''.]

==External links== * {{Official website|https://angelchang.com/}} * [http://angelchang.tumblr.com Official Tumblr]

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