I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
VERA WANGI was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
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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.
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Let’s be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I’m staggered by what a boot costs today.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one’s head as a designer.
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The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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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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It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
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It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom’s passage through their new life together.
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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 started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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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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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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