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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. ↗

— An Wang

#business #heart #you #your

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

#any #athletic #bed #compete #done

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

#body #carried #dancing #design #how

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 #designer #head #lifestyle

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

#boot #buy #buying #costs #design

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

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

#ceremony #certain #even #involves #more

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 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

#any #because #buy #clothes #crafted

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

— Vera Wang

#fashion #gritty #i #like #parts