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!
VERA WANGFashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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 want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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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 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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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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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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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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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 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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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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One thing about skating that I don’t think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it’s not the right music it can ruin a performance.
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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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