124 Quotes by Vera Wang

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

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

I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

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

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

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.