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.
VERA WANGI’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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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When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
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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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Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.
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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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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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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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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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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’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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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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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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When brides ask me, “What’s the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?” I always have the same answer: “Be yourself.” Someone’s marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don’t want you to be someone else.
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