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.
VERA WANGI 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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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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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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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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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 don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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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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In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.
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The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.
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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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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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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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Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.
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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 mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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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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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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A bride should look at everything she possibly can…just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.
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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’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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