Break Quote by Vera Wang

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

— Olivier Theyskens

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…

— Vera Wang

Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of…

— Gunther Schuller

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of…

— Alvin Lustig

“At a recent wedding one woman asked why I would agree to wear a traditional-style dress, and before I could answer my friend interjected…

— Jane Bristol-Rhys

I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise…

— Grant Morrison

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.

— Richelle Mead

To me, it is not about the kind of gown or makeup you are wearing, it is about how confident you are and your…

— Harnaaz Sandhu

Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous,…

— Carol Edgarian

In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I…

— Hubert de Givenchy

Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything…

— Margaret MacMillan