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
VERA WANGAs the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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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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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I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
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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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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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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I’m much more of a girl that’s a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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I make things of my own that aren’t that glam, but I’m not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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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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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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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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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 hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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