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.
VERA WANGLet’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.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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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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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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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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I’d shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle – it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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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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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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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In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.
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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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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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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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In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
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