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Vivienne Hu (Chinese: 胡媛媛; pinyin: Hu Yuanyuan) is a Chinese American New York based fashion designer. She was born in China, received education in Germany and US, and currently lives in the United States.

Early Life and Education
Vivienne Hu was born in 1980 to a family of business entrepreneurs in Anhui, China where she spent her childhood years. In 1996 she moved to Germany for her college education. In an interview she mentioned “those 6 years affected my sense of fashion”. She graduated with a degree in Finance from the Universität Hohenheim in Germany in 2002. She then move to the United States to continue a Master’s studies in Business and Economics. Later in her life Hu has decided to make a career transition into Fashion. She enrolled in the Parsons the New School for Design in 2010 and has earned a degree in fashion design.

Career
Before her fashion endeavors Vivienne Hu has worked in the Investment Banking industry in New York for over 3 years. After a formal fashion design training from Parsons and an accumulation of industry experience at Oscar de la Renta and Yigal Azrouel, Vivienne Hu founded her namesake brand and debuted her first Spring/Summer collection in New York in 2012. She launched her first flagship store in Soho, New York in 2013. She has designed red carpet dresses at requests for public figure clients like Jo Becker, Julie Yaeger, Ramona Rizzo , Tomoko Shibata, Lennon Stella ,Brianne McLaughlin and  Gabriela Isler.

Since September 2014, Vivienne Hu has been hosting her brand’s runway shows at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week. The media exposures through the fashion week runways have drawn the wide attention to her designs, and she becomes widely recognized as an “Up and Coming Designer”   and a representative emerging Asian designer who hits the New York Fashion Week. Some of her designers have been featured in the Trend Analysis for the New York Fashion Week         In March 2015 Hu showed her Fall/Winter 2015 collection at the Shenzhen Fashion Week for her first international showing.

Hu has also served as a juror for the Fashion Design Thesis Review for the Parsons School of Fashion. The fashion magazines that have covered her runways and designs includes Bazaar, Veranda, Elegant, Elle China, Bazaar China, Art and Designs, Vivi, Chasseur. In June 2015, she accepted a Recognition of Achievement award from Wells Fargo & sponsoring media as a representative from Asian American Community.

Style and Techniques
Inspired by her diverse cross-continental life experiences, Vivienne Hu’s designs exhibit an “imaginative mix of European elegance, New York urban glamour and Asian exoticism”. Reviews of her 2015 NYFW runway shows commonly viewed her as a designer who make proficient and bold use of a variety of fabrics/techniques like “fur, suede, leather, python prints along with edgy cuts at the waistline, sleeves and knees”, “The minimalist palette used with a bold cutout style”  “geometric patterns, cutouts, collar pipings, lamb fur, tulle, suede, leather and quilted fabric”. With her dresses “made for strong personalities”, her designs are believed  to cater to the professional women with an edge.