Vera Wang and husband announce separation Famed bridal wear designer, Vera Wang, has split from her husband of 23 years, Arthur Becker. Wang, the world's best-known wedding dress designer, has so far declined to comment on the split but her company's president, Mario Grauso, issued the following statement to WWD: "Vera Wang and Arthur Becker have mutually and amicably agreed to separate. They remain devoted parents to their two daughters. The couple married in 1989, and Becker, a former stock broker and CEO of technology company NaviSite, is said to have been instrumental in the building of Wang's fashion empire. They have two daughters together, Cecilia, 22, and Josephine, 19. IN PICTURES: Vera Wang autumn/winter 2012 Wang, now 63, opened her first bridal salon in New York's The Carlyle Hotel a year after their wedding, and her designs quickly became popular with betrothed Hollywood celebrities. The brand now also produces eveningwear, fragrance, jewellery, eyewear, shoe and homeware collections. It is unknown how the split will affect Wang's business but an unidentified friend of the designer's has said the couple "will not let this impact the running of the company. They have worked too hard to build it up. In 2006 Wang gave insight into her decision to get married in an interview with New York Magazine . I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes," she said. But Ralph [Lauren] said, 'Get yourself a husband and a family.' Anna [Wintour] said, 'You have got to get a family going here. You've been single for three decades now.' So I married my husband.