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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

Vera Wang

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Vera Wang
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 27
Businessperson
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Fashion Designer
Figure Skater
New York City
New York
Vera Ellen Wang
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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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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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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 am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
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