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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

Vera Wang

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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Athletics Bed Life Sacrifice Worth
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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Art Bed Design Home Myself
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
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
Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
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Herself Inspirational Story
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 love a black wedding dress.
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Clothes Design Fashion Love Myself
I’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
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Journey Myself Technical Visual
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Design Detail Fashion
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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Balance Challenge Hard
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.
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Clothes Design Fashion Myself Organization Room
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 a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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Design Fashion Marriage
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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Family Necessary People Risk Sad Thinking Woman Yourself
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Design Fashion Myself Photograph
Just 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.
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Books Internet Myself Reading Travel Woman World Worth

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