I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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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I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
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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.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It’s like a refuge, and it’s where I do a fair amount of designing – at least conceptually, if not literally.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
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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.
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They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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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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I love a black wedding dress.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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