It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
VERA WANGBrides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride’s attendants.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can’t design anything without thinking of how a woman’s body will look and move when she’s wearing it.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes – where a woman’s personality and sense of style are realized.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
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The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Let’s be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I’m staggered by what a boot costs today.
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I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
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I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
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It’s for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can’t afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it – a little bit of me or a lot of me, that’s what’s important.
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I’ve been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too – what I should wear.
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I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear “fashion” they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you’re really successful in the truest sense.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I’d shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle – it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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We got a lot of letters of people who didn’t like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation – I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
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We got a lot of letters of people who didn’t like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation – I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
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