Vera Wang Quotes

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

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.

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow - and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

I take references from the past and flip them.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

One doesn't want fashion to look ridiculous, silly, or out of step with the times - but you do want designers that make you think, that make you look at fashion differently. That's how fashion changes. If it doesn't change, it's not looking forward. And that's important to me.

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

I really like the Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony collection - all of those kind of laser-cut leather dresses.

Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.