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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.

Vera Wang

One thing about skating that I don’t think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it’s not the right music it can ruin a performance.
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Emotion Enough Focus Music People Right Ruin Thinking
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Design Detail Fashion
I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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Attitude Celebration Girl Travel
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
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Daughter Greatness Lose Mom Myself Respect
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Culture Language Myself Style Talk
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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Art Education Expression History Myself Stop
When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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Career Job Love Time Work Yourself
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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Afraid Change Fashion Goodness Inspirational Learning Life Myself Perspective Price Thinking Time
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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Family Necessary People Risk Sad Thinking Woman Yourself
I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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Beyond Design Dream Life Myself Time
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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Balance Challenge Hard
I 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.
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Challenge Creation Personality Realize Structure Style Woman Work
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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Attitude Character Control Flaw Mom Type
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride’s attendants.
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Attendant Play Respect Role
Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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Artist Design Fashion Myself
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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Change Clothes Design Fashion Illusion Myself Season

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’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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