I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
VERA WANGI 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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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It’s like a refuge, and it’s where I do a fair amount of designing – at least conceptually, if not literally.
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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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I 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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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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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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.
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I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I’d shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle – it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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When brides ask me, “What’s the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?” I always have the same answer: “Be yourself.” Someone’s marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don’t want you to be someone else.
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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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It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
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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’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
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