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she means business; Once exclusively a bridal designer, Vera Wang is breaking away with a hit ready-to-wear line-plus jewelry, shoes, crystal, perfume.(Interview)

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Byline: Sarah Mower

"I'm not a young designer, but I'm a new designer. If that makes any sense!" Vera Wang is sitting cross-legged in black leggings and a T-shirt, throwing her long, elegant arms in the air as she talks. She is 55, she adds-a funny age to feel like a newcomer, especially as she's the most famous wedding-dress designer in the world, but that's Vera: up-front and often hilariously down to earth about the contradictions in her life. At this moment she is taking a break at the Wang Palm Beach holiday house. Outside, her daughters, Cecilia, fourteen, and Josephine, eleven, are splashing in the pool while her husband, Arthur Becker, the CEO of a ...

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