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.
VERA WANGThey never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can’t design anything without thinking of how a woman’s body will look and move when she’s wearing it.
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The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I’ve always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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