Motherhood Quote by Vera Wang

Vera Wang’s line is almost disarmingly plain, which is exactly why it lands. Coming from a designer whose business has long revolved around women’s bodies, milestones, and self-presentation, “respect for women” isn’t a Hallmark sentiment; it’s an ethical claim about how you make culture with your hands. Fashion can be an industry that flatters women while quietly disciplining them - through sizing, through trends that reward discomfort, through a gaze that treats “female” as a market segment rather than a lived reality. Wang’s phrasing pushes back on that drift, and the tell is the second sentence.

“And I don’t ever want to lose that” admits respect isn’t a permanent virtue you earn once. It’s something success can corrode. Power, money, and proximity to beauty standards can turn admiration into objectification, or empathy into branding. By anchoring her respect in motherhood, Wang uses the most socially legible credential she can offer - not to make the point sentimental, but to make it difficult to dismiss. She’s saying: I am not only selling to women; I’m accountable to them, and I know how easily an industry like mine forgets that.

There’s also a subtle defensive edge: she anticipates skepticism, the way audiences now interrogate fashion for exploitation, exclusion, and token “female empowerment” language. The intent reads as a personal vow, but the subtext is professional: don’t let the machine turn women into mannequins, even when the mannequin is beautiful.