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Vera Wang

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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Clothes Design Start Study Thinking Understand Yourself
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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Clothes Design Fashion Myself Struggle Thinking Way
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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Climate Experience Myself Place
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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Job Time Work
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
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
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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Myself See Taste
I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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Appearance Clothes Empowerment Fashion Focus Mindset People See Women
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It’s like makeup. It’s the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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Appearance Change Design Eyes Fashion Yourself
Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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Luxury Sensual Service
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear “fashion” they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you’re really successful in the truest sense.
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Deep Fashion People Success True View Yourself
I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom’s passage through their new life together.
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Breathe Celebration Design Life Marriage Past Time Togetherness Unique
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 always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Call Right See Way Wisdom Yourself
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.
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Appearance Dance Greatness Myself Sound
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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Change Clothes Design Fashion Illusion Myself Season
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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Challenge Fashion Greatness Night Yourself
I love a black wedding dress.
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Clothes Design Fashion Love Myself
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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Change Clothes Design Fashion Illusion Myself Season
I make things of my own that aren’t that glam, but I’m not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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Appearance Beautiful Frustration Myself
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Design Fashion Myself Photograph
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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Attitude Character Control Flaw Mom Type
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
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Design Detail Fashion
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
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
I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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Attitude Celebration Girl Travel

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