Vera Wang Quotes

To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
Vera Wang

Change, Whole, Color

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
Vera Wang

Respect, Women, Great

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
Vera Wang

Life, Everything, Done

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
Vera Wang

Love, Mind, Heart

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.
Vera Wang

Wedding, Love, Great

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

Design, Woman, Thinking

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.
Vera Wang

Life, Success, Learn

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.
Vera Wang

Attitude, Design, Woman

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
Vera Wang

Woman, Her, She

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Vera Wang

Work, Time, Good

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
Vera Wang

Night, Fashion, Challenge

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang

Women, Wedding, Book

It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.
Vera Wang

Hard, Everything, Balance

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Vera Wang

Love, Design, Today

Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
Vera Wang

Today, Feelings, Sensitive

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.
Vera Wang

Respect, Role, Bride

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
Vera Wang

Fashion, Become, Wanted

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.
Vera Wang

Focus, Woman, Self

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.
Vera Wang

Wisdom, Call, Bit

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
Vera Wang

Woman, High, Heels

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.
Vera Wang

Nothing, Understand, Study

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
Vera Wang

Life, Live, Happen

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.
Vera Wang

Best, Hate, Nothing

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
Vera Wang

Design, Fashion, Pictures

I love a black wedding dress.
Vera Wang

Love, Wedding, Black

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 27, 1949

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