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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

Vera Wang

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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Luxury Sensual Service
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
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride’s attendants.
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Attendant Play Respect Role
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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Address Change Connection Design Fashion Impression Relationship Wedding
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
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
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 like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Design Fashion Myself Photograph
It’s hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself – PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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Bride Creative Hard Need People Person
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
Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
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Herself Inspirational Story
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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Job Time Work
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 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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Challenge Creation Personality Realize Structure Style Woman Work
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
Let’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.
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Cost Design Fashion Money Myself People Reality

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

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