Vera Wang Quotes

I love wearing designer pieces with something I found at Target.

I'd wear all APC if I could afford it and wasn't embarrassing to go head-to-toe in one brand.

The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

I love fashion week. It has great energy and vibe.

Our clothes are expensive. I guess you could say we are aiming at the Yuppie market. But we feel America is moving away from quantity to the desire for quality. That is what we offer.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices.

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

My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.

I'd love there to be more larger models, but it's just not going to happen. Designers love to design for slim girls.

I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

Thom Browne, Michael Bastian... all these people that I love, when I finally get to meet them, I'm like, 'You're a cool guy!'

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

People want to express themselves - that's what fashion is for. You can go to Target and get something that Rodarte designed for $34, but would you want to go buy the higher version for $3,400? I think most people would say no.

I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. I'd love to do a job where I could wear Thom Browne.