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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

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.
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Best Business Hate Myself People Phone
I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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Career Hard Work Inspirational Job Love Passion Yourself
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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Daughter Greatness Lose Mom Myself Respect
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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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Design Fashion Myself Photograph
It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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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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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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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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear ‘fashion’ they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist.
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Clothes End Fashion People Scare
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.
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Art Education Expression History Myself Stop
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
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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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
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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!

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