Five women in fashion that we loved in 2020, from Instagram stars and TikTok queens to dreamy wedding dress maker Vera Wang

Asian blogger Jessica Wang, known as NotJessFashion on Instagram, shared videos of herself getting dolled up to do chores at home in New York. They went viral

Veronica Chou, whose family made billions from fashion, has started her own eco-friendly label and funds a range of start-ups aiming to do good for the planet

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Veronica Chou is the founder of Everybody & Everyone. She’s pushing her family to invest in start-ups that offer solutions to climate problems. Photo: Bloomberg

Published: 7:15am, 2 Jan 2021Updated: 8:06am, 2 Jan 2021

Spanning different generations but all working in fashion or fashion-adjacent fields, these influential women captured our attention in 2020.

From a Hong Kong textile heiress and her new-found focus on sustainable fashion, to an American designer who – at 71 – has gone viral thanks to her quarantine selfies, and a former Vogue China editor, read on for some life lessons and fun anecdotes from five inspiring women of substance.

Her family made billions from fashion, now she wants to clean it up

Veronica Chou started her own eco-friendly label Everybody & Everyone and funds a range of fashion start-ups aiming to do good for the planet. She says she’s not the fashionista she’s made out to be, and offsets all the carbon emissions from her travels and buys vintage apparel to promote reuse.

Vera Wang during lockdown in Miami in the US during 2020.

For Vera Wang, fashion isn’t “fun and frivolous”

Vera Wang’s father wanted her to be a lawyer and she had Olympic aspirations, but fashion steered her in another direction. Discovering that finding the perfect wedding dress was harder than it should be, she opened a store and started designing gowns.