It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
VERA WANGIt’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
VERA WANGIt’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
VERA WANGI was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
VERA WANGI wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.
VERA WANGDon’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.
VERA WANGWhen you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
VERA WANGI want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
VERA WANGMy closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don’t often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
VERA WANGAll 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.
VERA WANGI 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.
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.
VERA WANGI am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
VERA WANGService is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
VERA WANGThe great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I’ve always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
VERA WANGThere 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.
VERA WANGJust 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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