Vera Wang Quotes

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

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

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.

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.

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.

Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?

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.

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

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

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.

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

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

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

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.

I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.

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

I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.