I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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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 like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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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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They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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I make things of my own that aren’t that glam, but I’m not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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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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I’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
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Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.
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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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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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I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there’s nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they’re crafted.
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I’ve been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too – what I should wear.
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