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

— Vera Wang

#costume #fashion #finding #greater #like

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

— Vera Wang

#balance #challenging #everything #hard

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

#against #although #always #anyone #better

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

#challenge #clothes #creating #dress #focus

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. ↗

— Vera Wang

#been #bit #frustration #glam #i

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. ↗

— Vera Wang

#break #came #even #give #go

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women. ↗

— Vera Wang

#designing #end #few #few women #frustrated

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. ↗

— Vera Wang

#both #doing #either #ended #expected

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. ↗

— Vera Wang

#box #challenge #clothes #creating #give

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

— Vera Wang

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