A well-known “red princess” (so called because her grandfather, Wan Li, was a vice premier and later chairman of the National People’s Congress, and her father is also a high level government Minister). Since founding her eponymous jewelry brand, Bao Bao Wan, back in 2007, Wan has emerged as one of China’s most notable up-and-coming high-end jewelry designers. Fueled by her personality and knack for design — and helped by her well-placed socialite and celebrity friends — the profile of Bao Bao Wan Fine Jewellery has risen steadily in recent years.
With designs influenced in equal measures by her childhood in Beijing and later travels in Paris and New York, Wan hopes to go beyond the at times exaggerated “Chinese-ness” seen among some Hong Kong and mainland China jewelry brands as well as over-the-top attempts at “fusion.” Rendering traditional Chinese symbols like Buddhist pagodas, Ming vases, paper fans in rose gold, diamonds and sapphires, Wan insists that her aim is to create “wearable art.”
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Jewelry Designers of Asia
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