Things that came before, people and things and
experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace
the new, but I don't forget the past, either. - Vera Wang
Success isn't about the end result, it's about
what you learn along the way. - Vera Wang
Original, she thought she wanted to be an Olympic pairs
figure skater, but when she missed the opportunity to make the 1968 U.S.
Olympic team she went into fashion, which she had been introduced to when her
mother worked as a translator at the United Nations.
After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College,
she was hired at Vogue and within a
year was promoted to senior fashion editor at the age of 23 and remained at Vogue for fifteen (15) years. When she was not promoted, she left Vogue in 1987 and spent two (2) years as
the design director at Ralph Lauren.
In
1989, she was planning her wedding and was frustrated by the lack of wedding
gowns for “mature brides”. At the time,
she was forty (40) and all of the wedding gowns she found had too many frills
and too much lace. She could not find
anything simple and elegant to fit her mature style. Deciding to design her own gown, a dressmaker
sewed the original custom-made gown, which cost her $10,000. She knew that if she had this many issues
finding an appropriate wedding dress there were probably many other women
having the same problem. In 1990, she
opened her own Bridal House in New York.
Who is this adventurous and daring designer?
Vera Wang
When one door closes, another opens; but we
often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see
the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Challenge: Be like Vera
Wang. When one door closes, find the one
that is open for you!
It
doesn’t matter what it is: being a mom, teaching, whatever you love. If you love it, it’ll get you through the hard
times, and if you don’t, it’s not authentic or real anyway. When you love
something, every day goes by in 10 minutes. – Vera Wang
Resources
http://www.biography.com/people/vera-wang-9542398
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