My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
VERA WANGI 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.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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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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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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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 do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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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’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
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Ready-to-wear is what I’ve wanted to do since the beginning. I’m not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown
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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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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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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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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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They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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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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