Dr. An Wang Quotes

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

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.

I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

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

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.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.

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.

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

To know and not to act is not to know.

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

I love a black wedding dress.

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

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

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

My mission was that I wanted to see people on the street that I don't know wearing my clothes. That excites me.

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.

Yin and Yang are one vital force -- the primordial aura.

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.