I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
VERA WANGThe key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
More Vera Wang Quotes
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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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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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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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Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
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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. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you’re really successful in the truest sense.
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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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It’s for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can’t afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it – a little bit of me or a lot of me, that’s what’s important.
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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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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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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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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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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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