black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.
VERA WANG

Audience Capture Dance Design Excitement Fashion Magic
It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
VERA WANG

Exercise Work Yourself
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.
VERA WANG

Best Business Hate Myself People Phone
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANG

Myself See Taste
Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.
VERA WANG

Business End Inspirational Journey Learning Motivational Result Success Way Yourself
A 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 WANG

Appearance Beautiful Desire Experiment Feeling Herself Marriage Possible See
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
VERA WANG

Culture Language Myself Style Talk
My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
VERA WANG

Fire Job Myself Normal Work
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
VERA WANG

Address Change Connection Design Fashion Impression Relationship Wedding
My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don’t often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
VERA WANG

Clothes Design Fashion Myself Organization Room
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.
VERA WANG

Design End Frustration Myself Start
Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
VERA WANG

Luxury Sensual Service
Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
VERA WANG

Afraid Change Fashion Goodness Inspirational Learning Life Myself Perspective Price Thinking Time
In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
VERA WANG

Career End Failure Job Love Yourself
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.
VERA WANG

Bride Creative Hard Need People Person
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

Art Education Expression History Myself Stop

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Vera Wang Quotes