Top 60 Vera Wang Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.”

— Vera Wang

2. “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.”

— Vera Wang

3. “In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.”

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

7. “My bedroom is my sanctuary. It’s like a refuge, and it’s where I do a fair amount of designing – at least conceptually, if not literally.”

— Vera Wang

8. “My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.”

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

10. “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.”

— Vera Wang

11. “I see myself as an arbiter of taste.”

— Vera Wang

12. “I never thought I’d be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I’ve undertaken I’ve never quite made the mark. But I’ve always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.”

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

14. “I’ve always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That’s been part of the journey.”

— Vera Wang

15. “I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom’s passage through their new life together.”

— Vera Wang

16. “I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.”

— Vera Wang

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17. “It’s hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself – PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.”

— Vera Wang

18. “It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.”

— Vera Wang

19. “My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don’t often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.”

— Vera Wang

20. “I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.”

— Vera Wang

21. “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

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

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

24. “I love a black wedding dress.”

— Vera Wang

25. “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!”

— Vera Wang

26. “All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.”

— Vera Wang

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27. “I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.”

— Vera Wang

28. “It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.”

— Vera Wang

29. “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

30. “I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.”

— Vera Wang

31. “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.”

— Vera Wang

32. “To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It’s like makeup. It’s the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.”

— Vera Wang

33. “In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.”

— Vera Wang

34. “The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.”

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

36. “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.”

— Vera Wang

37. “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.”

— Vera Wang

38. “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

39. “There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.”

— Vera Wang

40. “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.”

— Vera Wang

41. “We got a lot of letters of people who didn’t like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation – I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.”

— Vera Wang

42. “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

43. “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.”

— Vera Wang

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

— Vera Wang

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45. “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

46. “I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.”

— Vera Wang

47. “The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.”

— Vera Wang

48. “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

49. “I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don’t think that I was that literal.”

— Vera Wang

50. “Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.”

— Vera Wang