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Success isn't about the end result it's about what you learn along the way.

Vera Wang

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Vera Wang
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 27
Businessperson
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Fashion Designer
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New York City
New York
Vera Ellen Wang
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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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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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Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.
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I love a black wedding dress.
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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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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 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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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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The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
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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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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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I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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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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When brides ask me, What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day? I always have the same answer: Be yourself. Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else.
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