I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
VERA WANGA woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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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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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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 those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can’t design anything without thinking of how a woman’s body will look and move when she’s wearing it.
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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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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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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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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 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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They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear ‘fashion’ they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist.
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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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