How does bridal queen Vera Wang keep a toned body at 70?

70-year-old fashion designer Vera Wang recently made waves on social media for her fabulous staying-at-home photos, most of which reveal her chic style and ridiculously fit figure.

Asked in the comments section what her routine was, Wang replied: “Work, sleep, a vodka cocktail, not much sun.” Instantly everyone’s new lifestyle icon, we examine just how the accomplished designer lives out her mantra.

She’s taken career detours at least twice in her life

Two rejections led Wang to the career path meant for her. While in school, Wang trained to become a figure skater yet she failed to qualify for the Olympic team.

She then decided to pursue fashion and straight out of college, acquired a position at Vogue in 1971. A year later, Wang was promoted to become fashion editor – the youngest ever in the magazine’s history. “She was inspiring, her energy, her caring, never complaining, which was really how she was brought up,” then Vogue editor-in-charge Polly Allen Mellen told Harper’s Bazaar. “She was a pleasure, and she skyrocketed.”

Passed up for the editor-in-chief role, Wang quit the magazine and joined Ralph Lauren, where she worked for two years, before leaving to start her own brand. In 1989, Wang was planning for her wedding and realised none of the dresses available suited her style. She ended up hiring a dressmaker to execute her own design – inadvertently launching her bridal brand on her wedding day.

Wang was born into a privileged family and grew up surrounded by fashion

Born and raised in New York City to affluent Chinese parents, Wang’s fascination with the fashion world was due to the tutelage of her mother, who shopped at the Paris couture shows and adored Yves Saint Laurent. “Chic, creative, cultured” was how Wang described her late mother, as quoted in The New York Times.

Wang also designed a luxury hotel suite