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.
VERA WANGMy 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.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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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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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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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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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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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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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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I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
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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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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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