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Jason Wu He may have a new audience via Target customers perhaps best found on eBay these days, but Jason Wu has proved once again that his golden boy status was no fluke. This season, he turns to China (he grew up in Taiwan) to play with military uniform references, mixing classic military colors, details and silhouettes and used leather, lace, fur and curved seams to refine the look. In his show notes, Wu reveals he was exposed to a wide varied of iconic Chinese imagery from the Qing Dynasty to the May jacket to the 1940's Hollywood take on China. (Think Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express.) He tells The Daily, "I've been thinking about this collection for a long time. It's a personal collection because it's Chinese. I know it's not the ...(read more)