The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
VERA WANGI wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.
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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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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 do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don’t think that I was that literal.
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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.
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I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
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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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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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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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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
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Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
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