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More Quotes by Vera Wang
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
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.
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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.
I used to get tons of letters that said, "I'll never get to wear you," or "I'll never get married in one of your dresses," or "I'll never have an evening gown like the one I saw on the red carpet." I thought that was sad, because you give your life to this and you end up reaching very few people. So 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.
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.
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.
