Vera Wang Quotes
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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 wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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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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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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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.
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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.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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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.
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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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My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
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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.
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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.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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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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I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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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. People get very trapped where they are.
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Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.