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.
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.
More Vera Wang Quotes
-
-
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
VERA WANG -
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
VERA WANG -
Ready-to-wear is what I’ve wanted to do since the beginning. I’m not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown
VERA WANG -
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.
VERA WANG -
I 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 WANG -
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.
VERA WANG -
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.
VERA WANG -
The funny thing is that I’m the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who’s traveled with me. Normally, I’m in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
VERA WANG -
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
VERA WANG -
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
VERA WANG -
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.
VERA WANG -
I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
VERA WANG -
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.
VERA WANG -
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
VERA WANG -
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.
VERA WANG






