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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

Vera Wang

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Vera Wang
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 27
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
Figure Skater
New York City
New York
Vera Ellen Wang
Arbiter
Taste

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I love a black wedding dress.
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When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.
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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.
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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'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.
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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.
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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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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result it's about what you learn along the way.
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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.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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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 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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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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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.
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In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
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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.
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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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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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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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