I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANGBridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.
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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They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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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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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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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I’m much more of a girl that’s a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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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.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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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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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 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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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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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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