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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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I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don’t think that I was that literal.
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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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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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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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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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I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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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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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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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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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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A bride should look at everything she possibly can…just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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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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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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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