With nuptials season in full swing, a Vera Wang wedding dress remains at the top of many a bride's wish list. The designer, who recently took home the lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, has been innovating in bridal design for years—using color, knits and even throwing fabric into a washing machine.

Ms. Wang said that her latest collection is about construction. "I had felt that I had really messed that vocabulary of perfection for brides for a while, where there's six fabrics to a skirt," she said. "I wanted to go back to something that maybe was what I started with, but in a whole new way, and that would be architecture—not simplicity—but maybe minimalism."

The Wall Street Journal sat down with the designer in her studio to talk about some of her most memorable wedding and red-carpet looks, business in China and "Tiger Moms."

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