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I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

Vera Wang

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
Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
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Herself Inspirational Story
Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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Artist Design Fashion Myself
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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Myself See Taste
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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Artist Break Design Fashion Myself Need Passionate Past Research Rule See True
When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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Career Job Love Time Work Yourself
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Artist Clothes Comfortable Fashion Herself Woman
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
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It’s like a refuge, and it’s where I do a fair amount of designing – at least conceptually, if not literally.
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Art Bed Design Home Myself
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 was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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Design Fashion Marriage
It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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Exercise Work Yourself
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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Art Education Expression History Myself Stop
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
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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Balance Challenge Hard
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear ‘fashion’ they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist.
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Clothes End Fashion People Scare
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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Advice Be Yourself Change Love Marriage Relationship Self Love
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
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
One thing about skating that I don’t think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it’s not the right music it can ruin a performance.
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Emotion Enough Focus Music People Right Ruin 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
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
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
Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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Luxury Sensual Service
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
Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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Bride Feeling Marriage Money Taste
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

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