Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
VERA WANGI work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes – where a woman’s personality and sense of style are realized.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.
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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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It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you’re really successful in the truest sense.
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I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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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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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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I’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
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Let’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.
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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 don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
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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.
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