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Vera Ellen Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York City.

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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.

Bathing, High Heels, Right Now, Straight, Suits, Woman

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.

Attitude, Design, Point, View, Views

I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

Fashion, Girl, Journey, Way

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.

Barrage, Businesses, Hate, People, Phones

Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.

Ask, Ask Me, Funny, Lovers, People, Woman

We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.

People, Risk, Sad, Think, Thinking

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.

Design, Designing, Skating, Technique, Wear

In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.

Ends, Failure, Love

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.

Athletic, Bed, Homework, Life, Meant, Sacrifice

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.

Accessory, Artist, Color, Eyewear, Makeup, Prescription

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.

Climate, Lifestyle, New York, West, Yang

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.

Artist, Bride, Dance, Design, Practical, Wedding

I think fashion is intensely personal. It should be. It should give a woman a creative outlet, it should give her a little bit of an escape, and it should give her a little bit of individuality that she can add to her life. I don't mean redoing your entire closet. I mean that a great shoe or a great handbag or a great top or a great coat or jacket can change everything.

Coat, Fashion, Give, Individuality, Mean, Thinking

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

Balance, Challenges, Challenging, Everything, Hard

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.

Heavy, Lifting, Things, Want, Way

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

Designers, Fashion, Lindsay, Real, Years

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

Attached, Falling In Love, Heart, Key, Mind, Motivational

They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

Carpet, Celebrities, Clothes, Red

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.

Breathe, Design, Future, Passage, Past, Unique

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.

Dance, Dancer, Looking, Mirrors, Narcissistic, School

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