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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

Vera Wang

When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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Career Job Love Time Work Yourself
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Artist Clothes Comfortable Fashion Herself Woman
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
Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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Luxury Sensual Service
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Design Fashion Myself Photograph
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Culture Language Myself Style Talk
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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Artist Dance Design Greatness Practice Wedding
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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Appearance Dance Greatness Myself Sound
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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Job Time Work
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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Challenge Creation Personality Realize Structure Style Woman Work
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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Climate Experience Myself Place
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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Deep Fashion People Success True View Yourself
I 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.
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Artist Break Design Fashion Myself Need Passionate Past Research Rule See True
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
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
My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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Fire Job Myself Normal Work

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