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.
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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It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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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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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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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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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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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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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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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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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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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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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 mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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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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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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