black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Vera Wang

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.
VERA WANG

Change Clothes Design Fashion Illusion Myself Season
Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.
VERA WANG

Business End Inspirational Journey Learning Motivational Result Success Way Yourself
I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
VERA WANG

Design Fashion Future Myself Reality Time Wait
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
VERA WANG

Artist Clothes Comfortable Fashion Herself Woman
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear ‘fashion’ they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist.
VERA WANG

Clothes End Fashion People Scare
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
VERA WANG

Job Time Work
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
VERA WANG

Fashion Myself Right Woman
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
VERA WANG

Culture Language Myself Style Talk
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.
VERA WANG

Family Necessary People Risk Sad Thinking Woman Yourself
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
VERA WANG

Balance Challenge Hard
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.
VERA WANG

Art Education Expression History Myself Stop
My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
VERA WANG

Fire Job Myself Normal Work
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It’s like makeup. It’s the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
VERA WANG

Appearance Change Design Eyes Fashion Yourself
I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
VERA WANG

Attitude Celebration Girl Travel
When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
VERA WANG

Career Hard Work Inspirational Job Love Passion Yourself
I love a black wedding dress.
VERA WANG

Clothes Design Fashion Love Myself
They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
VERA WANG

Celebration Celebrity Clothes Fame Wear
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
VERA WANG

Design Detail Fashion
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.
VERA WANG

Change Clothes Design Fashion Illusion Myself Season
Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
VERA WANG

Bride Feeling Marriage Money Taste
My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don’t often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
VERA WANG

Clothes Design Fashion Myself Organization Room
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.
VERA WANG

Cost Design Fashion Money Myself People Reality
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 WANG

Beginning Clothes Fashion Girl Life Myself Time Work
I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
VERA WANG

Design Fashion Marriage
I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
VERA WANG

Children Life Live Myself Preparation
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.
VERA WANG

Deep Fashion People Success True View Yourself
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.
VERA WANG

Change Clothes Design Fashion Illusion Myself Season

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Vera Wang Quotes