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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.

Vera Wang

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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Attitude Character Control Flaw Mom Type
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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Job Time Work
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It’s like makeup. It’s the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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Appearance Change Design Eyes Fashion 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 love a black wedding dress.
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Clothes Design Fashion Love Myself
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
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
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
Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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Artist Design Fashion Myself
I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there’s nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they’re crafted.
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Clothes Design Start Study Thinking Understand Yourself
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Design Detail Fashion
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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Myself See Taste
It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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Exercise Work Yourself
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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Aesthetic Design Generosity Important Inspirational Woman Worth
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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Challenge Fashion Greatness Night Yourself

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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