People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
From Vera Wang
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.
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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.
They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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.
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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.
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.
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