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Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

Vera Wang

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
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Design End Frustration Myself Start
In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
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Career End Failure Job Love Yourself
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Design Fashion Myself Photograph
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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Call Right See Way Wisdom Yourself
I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don’t think that I was that literal.
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Clothes Design Fashion Myself Struggle Thinking Way
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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Best Business Hate Myself People Phone
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear ‘fashion’ they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist.
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Clothes End Fashion People Scare
I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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Design Fashion Future Myself Reality Time Wait
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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Balance Challenge Hard
I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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Design Fashion Marriage
It’s hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself – PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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Bride Creative Hard Need People Person
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Attachment Fall In Love Heart Mindset Motivational
Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.
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Clothes Fashion Funny Love Marriage Person Wife Woman
One thing about skating that I don’t think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it’s not the right music it can ruin a performance.
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Emotion Enough Focus Music People Right Ruin Thinking
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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Attendant Play Respect Role
I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.
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Change Clothes Design Fashion Illusion Myself Season

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

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Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

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