Vera Wang showed off her age-defying appearance at a Breast Cancer Research Foundation party on Tuesday.
The fashion designer, 76, has previously credited ‘work, sleep and a vodka cocktail’ for helping to maintain her youthful looks, and she put on another glamorous display for the party in New York.
Vera arrived in a stylish pale pink satin gown with a frilled skirt, teamed with her signature sunglasses.
In a 2022 interview with BBC 100 Women, Vera, who is the chief creative officer of her fashion empire, said her ‘magic elixir’ for staying youthful is work – while also previously admitting that a ‘vodka’ cocktail and ‘nine hours of sleep a day’ help.
Vera has been working in the fashion industry since the age of 18. At 23, she made history as the youngest-ever fashion editor at Vogue, but it wasn’t until nearly 20 years later that she launched her namesake fashion label.
However, perhaps more powerful than work is her approach to beauty – which is not to take it too seriously.
Vera Wang showed off her age-defying appearance at a Breast Cancer Research Foundation party on Tuesday, after sharing the secrets to her youthful looks
Amazingly, she’s also praised her diet for youthful looks – claiming the secret is vodka, McDonald’s and donuts.
‘I do eat McDonald’s, absolutely, I order it every day, like two weeks on it, and then I’ll change,’ she told Page Six last year.
The wedding dress designer also admitted she enjoys Dunkin’ Donuts, sharing: ‘I like the cream-filled, sugar-coated donut.
‘It’s like a jelly donut, but it’s cream inside, vanilla cream. I like the pink with sprinkles, too.’
The star previously shared in 2020 that her anti-aging secrets included ‘work, sleep, a vodka cocktail [and] not much sun.’
In an interview with People, Vera revealed her ageless beauty comes from sipping on vodka cocktails, getting nine hours of sleep, working, and staying out of the sun.
‘One of the things I am known to like to do is have a vodka cocktail. There’s no question about that, I do. I have a vodka at some point after five or six o’clock, towards seven,’ she explained.
And while she noted that no one ever ‘believed her’, another one of her top tips to stay young was working.
The fashion designer has credited ‘work, sleep and a vodka cocktail’ for helping to maintain her youthful looks, and she put on another glamorous display for the party in New York
Vera (pictured Estée Lauder Companies chair William P. Lauder) said her ‘magic elixir’ for staying youthful is work, while ‘nine hours of sleep a day’ help
She insisted that working keeps your ‘mind, body and soul’ forever youthful. Vera also credits her fabulous appearance to her night-time routine, which sees her sleeping nine hours every night.
The star told the outlet that she typically gets around nine hours of sleep. Some nights she gets less, however, she ‘needs more than six or seven’.
Vera revealed that getting enough sleep helps calm her down and pace herself.
She emphasized how crucial rest was while noting that ‘every age has its own set of beauty standards’.
‘I’m very flattered that people think I’ve aged well, but it was never my goal,’ she explained.
The fashion designer continued: ‘I’m confronted with a bit of a moment now where so much has been said about my aging. 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.’
While she balances out her meals between healthy, nutritious whole foods and junk food, Wang is prone to periods of eating the same fast foods every day.
In 2012, she revealed to Harper’s Bazaar that ‘at one point I was eating a slice of Ray’s pizza every day’.
Apart from her nightly vodka cocktail, though, Wang said she only drinks water. She gave up drinking Diet Coke in 2006, which she said was ‘the hardest thing I ever gave up’.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, when she was 73, she said: ‘I think what happens sometimes as you age… I’m more frightened about physical disabilities… not all this.
‘I’m not totally preoccupied with how I look. I love my work, and I’m very passionate about my work, my friends, my daughters… I mean, I have a very full life.’
