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“Timeless beauty” Vera Wang shares the secrets to her success

<p>When iconic fashion designer Vera Wang wowed fans with a post-NEA Awards picture, she received hundreds of comments praising her youthful complexion and “timeless beauty”. </p> <p>“Post NEA Award celebration dinner,” Vera captioned the image, which saw her sitting next to fellow designer Keith Lissner at the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Awards, her arm draped across his shoulders. “Thank you Keith Lissner and Paul Vinci for hosting!!!!!!” </p> <p>“You are amazing,” came the immediate response, one soon echoed throughout the entire comments section. “You never age, what is your secret?”</p> <p>“Ageing backwards. The both of you,” wrote one fan. </p> <p>“Timeless beauty,” declared another, followed by a series of red hearts, with two more added by Vera in response. </p> <p>“You are a vampire,” one decided, “you just don't age.”</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrIIqWpOhGb/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"> </div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"> <div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrIIqWpOhGb/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Vera Wang (@verawang)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>And while Vera is no stranger to such feedback, the 73-year-old had recently informed <em>Elle</em> magazine that while she’s “very flattered” that people think she’s ageing well, she’d never set out with that as her goal in life.</p> <p>“I drink vodka, I sleep, I avoid the sun,” she added. “But I like to work. I don’t want to be pigeonholed.”</p> <p>As she later noted, “I’m confronted with a bit of a moment now where so much has been said about my ageing. I just hope that it doesn’t supersede my work. It brings up the issue of ageism, and I don’t want to be pigeonholed. We pigeonhole women that are pregnant, small, tall, athletic … authenticity means so much to me … I was never really obsessed with ageing.”</p> <p>She explained that while she can’t speak on behalf of the next generations, “things that exist now did not exist 50 or 60 years ago. There was no such thing as Botox. I’ve always focused on work. Work was my lifeline that kept me feeling relevant and challenged me over the years. I think the mind is more powerful than one could ever understand.”</p> <p>While work and productivity are held in high regard by the designer, she has also spoken up about the other main factors in her routine - most importantly, sleep. As Vera once told the <em>BBC</em>, "I’ve got to be really honest, one of them is sleep." </p> <p>"I value having a vodka cocktail at the end of the day,” she went on to share. “Because it helps me to transition from a very intense work schedule to a bit of a private life."</p> <p>In the same interview, she reiterated the point that she “never thought about youth” during her years in the fashion industry, putting it down to her daily encounters with “the most beautiful women in the world”. </p> <p>"Because of that, I more envision them as my muses,” she explained, before admitting that it was perhaps a means of “dealing with ageing” that could be considered productive, unlike so many others saturating the market. </p> <p><em>Images: Instagram</em></p>

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Pretty in Pink: Vera Wang marks 73rd birthday with “unreal” looks

<p dir="ltr">Fashion icon Vera Wang has celebrated her 73rd birthday in style, stunning fans with her age-defying looks during her pink, floral-themed celebration.</p> <p dir="ltr">Wang’s Enchanted Garden-themed party was replete with flowers, trees filled with twinkling fairy lights, a gravity-defying cake covered in pink roses, and karaoke.</p> <p dir="ltr">Unsurprisingly, the fashion designer stunned in two outfits: a pink satin princess dress split down the middle to show matching floral shorts, and a pink sequined mini skirt and matching boob tube, with both looks completed with silver stilettos, necklaces with pink jewels, and a pink-and-silver crown.</p> <p dir="ltr">The party appeared to be inspired by Wang’s new Rosé Prosecco, which she posed with throughout the night.</p> <p dir="ltr">Her pomeranian, Lola “the party princess”, also made an appearance among the slew of photos Wang shared with fans on social media.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Celebrating my Bday with CAKES and KARAOKE….. and my new ROSÉ PROSECCO!!!!!!,” she captioned the series of posts.</p> <p dir="ltr">Wang’s friends and a host of fans flooded the posts with well-wishes for the bridal designer, with many sharing their disbelief over her age.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Happy birthday love!! 💗” fashion designer Lisa Perry wrote.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Happy Birthday Fellow Cancer Queen ♋✨💗,” model Theodora ‘Teddy’ Quinlaven commented.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Happy birthday beautiful, you are truly inspirational to us older women,” a fan said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The way you look is unreal! Fabulous!” another added.</p> <p dir="ltr">“You look so beautiful and wearing my favourite colour! Have a great one!” a third wrote.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d54eb279-7fff-c1e5-80d1-5184703a747e"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Images: @verawang (Instagram)</em></p>

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Vale Dame Vera Lynn

<p>Iconic songstress Dame Vera Lynn has died at the age of 103.</p> <p>In a statement, the singer’s family said she passed away on Thursday “surrounded by her close family”.</p> <p>The Forces’ Sweetheart, who had sold over a million records by the age of 22, was best known for performing hits such as <em>We’ll Meet Again </em>to troops in World War Two, as well as <em>The White Cliffs Of Dover</em>, <em>There’ll Always Be An England</em>, <em>I’ll Be Seeing You</em>, <em>Wishing</em> and <em>If Only I Had Wings</em>.</p> <p>She was also known for her charity commitments, having been involved with organisations concerned with military veterans as well as polio, breast cancer, blindness and cerebral palsy.</p> <p>Her last public performance was at Hyde Park, in a 1995 ceremony that marked the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.</p> <p>Days before her 100th birthday, she released a compilation album titled <em>Vera</em> <em>Lynn 100</em>, featuring re-orchestrated versions of some of her most popular tunes. The album rose to number 3, making her the first centenarian to enter the UK charts.</p> <p>In April, the Queen referenced the song during a speech to Britons who were separated from families and friends due to the coronavirus lockdown, saying: “We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again.”</p> <p>Following the speech, Dame Vera beat her previous record to become the oldest artist to get a top 40 album in the UK after the song re-entered the charts at number 30.</p> <p>Dame Vera is survived by her daughter Virginia.</p>

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