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In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.

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
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’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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Design Fashion Future Myself Reality Time Wait
It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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Exercise Work Yourself
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Design Detail Fashion
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
When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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Career Job Love Time Work Yourself
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
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
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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Beginning Clothes Fashion Girl Life Myself Time Work
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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Appearance Art Body Carry Dance Design Thinking Woman
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
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Design End Frustration Myself Start
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
Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.
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Clothes Fashion Funny Love Marriage Person Wife Woman
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 key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Attachment Fall In Love Heart Mindset Motivational
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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Breathe Eat Fashion Girl Live Marriage Myself Thinking
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
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Attitude Design Life Myself Style View Woman
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
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 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 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
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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Artist Dance Design Greatness Practice Wedding
They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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Celebration Celebrity Clothes Fame Wear
I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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Children Life Live Myself Preparation
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
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
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Business Clothes Creativity Decision Fashion Marriage Myself Opportunity

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