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.
VERA WANGI 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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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 I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
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I love a black wedding dress.
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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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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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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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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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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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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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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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I’ve been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too – what I should wear.
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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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I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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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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