Words matter. These are the best Vera Wang Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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.
My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It’s when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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.
They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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.
When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes – where a woman’s personality and sense of style are realized.
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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.
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.
If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don’t. I always see where I didn’t do things the right way.
I’m a late riser by my family’s standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I’m really not a morning girl.
I love a black wedding dress.
I love to design things that people can actually buy. I’m staggered by what a boot costs today.
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman’s personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
People get very trapped where they are. When they hear ‘fashion’ they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist.
I’ve been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too – what I should wear.
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
That was a major goal for me – to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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.
Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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.
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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.
My mother is the reason I’m in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
I 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.
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.
I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.