All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
VERA WANGService is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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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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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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It’s for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can’t afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it – a little bit of me or a lot of me, that’s what’s important.
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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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The funny thing is that I’m the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who’s traveled with me. Normally, I’m in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
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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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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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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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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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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom’s passage through their new life together.
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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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A bride should look at everything she possibly can…just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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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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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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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 love a black wedding dress.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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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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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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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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When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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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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