As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
VERA WANGAs the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
VERA WANGI 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.
VERA WANGIt’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.
VERA WANGI love a black wedding dress.
VERA WANGI see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANGI 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.
VERA WANGIt takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
VERA WANGI do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
VERA WANGI love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I’m much more of a girl that’s a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
VERA WANGI 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.
VERA WANGWe 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.
VERA WANGI was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
VERA WANGI 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.
VERA WANGA bride should look at everything she possibly can…just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.
VERA WANGI see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
VERA WANGI’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
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