I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
VERA WANGI do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
VERA WANGAll I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
VERA WANGI’ve been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too – what I should wear.
VERA WANGI 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.
VERA WANGIn the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
VERA WANGWhen you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
VERA WANGOne thing about skating that I don’t think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it’s not the right music it can ruin a performance.
VERA WANGJust because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
VERA WANGI love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I’m much more of a girl that’s a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
VERA WANGMy normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
VERA WANGLet’s be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I’m staggered by what a boot costs today.
VERA WANGI 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.
VERA WANGDesign is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
VERA WANGA woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
VERA WANGIt’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
VERA WANGIt 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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