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Angela Zhang

Taiwanese singer and actress

This article is about the Taiwanese singer and actress. For the American cancer researcher, see Angela Zhang (scientist). For the Chinese electrical engineer, see Ying Jun Zhang.

In this Taiwanese name, the surname is Zhang.

Angela Zhang (traditional Chinese: 張韶涵; simplified Chinese: 张韶涵; pinyin: Zhāng Shàohán; born 19 January 1982), also known as Angela Chang, is a Taiwanese-Canadian singer and actress.

Zhang gained recognition with the Taiwanese television dramas My MVP Valentine (2002) and At Dolphin Bay (2003). Since 2004, following the instant success of her first album, Over the Rainbow, she has focused on her singing career, releasing popular albums like Aurora (2004) and Pandora (2006),[4][5] along with starring in another hit TV drama, Romantic Princess (2007). Her career was derailed in 2008 by a public row with her family, which was further worsened by a falling out with her label, Linfair Records. She did not revive her career until the Hunan TV reality show Singer 20

Angel Chang

American fashion designer

Angel Chang

NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University
Barnard College
LabelANGEL CHANG
AwardsCartier Women's Initiative Award, 2007
Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award, 2007

Angel Chang[1] is an American fashion designer and early pioneer in the cross-over between fashion and technology.[2] 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.[3] A year later, Chang moved to New York Ci

About the designer

Angel Chang is an American womenswear designer who has been working with ethnic minority artisans in southwest rural China for the last eight years. She began her career designing for Donna Karan Collection in New York and Chloé (See by Chloé) in Paris. 

Her first eponymous label (2006 – 2008) incorporated smart textiles into hi-tech garments and received several accolades including the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award and the Cartier Women’s Initiative Award.The collection’s use of innovative materials, including color-changing prints, light-up fabrics, and self-heating linings, was a first for the American designer market.

Disillusioned by technology’s unfulfilled promise for future dressing, she sought to understand the future of clothing better by studying the ancient past. 

Since 2010, Angel has worked closely with ethnic minority fabric masters in the rural mountain villages of Guizhou province, China. Atelier Angel Chang was created in 2012 to bring global appreciation for indigenous craftsmanship and to revive traditional fabric-making practice

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