Carolina Herrera famous quotes

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Speak #Elegance

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Ideas #Together

Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Beautiful #Fashion #Style

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Book #Inspiration #Painting

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Daughter #Mother #Husband

I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Beautiful #Responsibility #Today

I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Thinking #Color #Black

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Eye #Shapes

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Past #Thinking

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Personality #Style #Dresses

I can get ready in 10 minutes.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Funny Inspirational #Minutes #Ready

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Shoes #Add #Bags

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Heaven #Flying #Skins

People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery!
-- Carolina Herrera

#People #Naked #Want

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Inspirational #Elegance #Who You Are

Some people take fashion very seriously....but that’s not right... Fashion should be fun!
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Fun #People

You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Tired #White #Design

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Opportunity #New Opportunity

I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Past #Thinking

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Luxury #World #Matter

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Long #Life Is Hard #Too Short

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Men #Romance #Tolerance

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Perfect #Perfection #Doe

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Regret #Want #Young

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Home #Married #University

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Capricorns #Compromise

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Holiday #Design

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Strong #Intuition #Quality

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Mean #Age #Passionate

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Style #Different #Way

For me, fashion begins in New York.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #New York

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Dresses #Buying

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Sleep #Long

I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Looks #Trends

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Thinking #Retiring

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Garden #Years #Cities

Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Girl #Sexy #Long

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Party #People #Trying

One thing about my mother is that she has her taste: She knows what she likes and what looks good. It's not studied. There is no insecurity in what she is going to wear, and I think that translates into effortlessness. Her career has been a steady rise, and it hasn't been about the fashion of the moment. It's been because she has kept to her style. She didn't go grunge when it was grunge, or 70's when it was 70's. It's about being secure with what you like and not worrying about what's in fashion that particular day. That's what I admire about her.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Mother #Fashion #Thinking

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'
-- Carolina Herrera

#Fashion #Fun #Intellectual

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Details #Looks #Attention

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Daughter #Mother #Husband

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Memories #Simple #Black

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.
-- Carolina Herrera

#People #Mind #Shy

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Discipline #Taught #Emotion

I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Believe #People #I Believe

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Interfere

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Believe #Suits

All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Lying #Clothes #Deny

Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens to everyone. What can you do? Go and tell her, 'Don't wear that dress again'? We designers always have fantasies in our heads, but the difficult task is to make them reality. Because you can be the best designer, but designing in your own place and with nobody wearing [your clothes], then what happens? You're nowhere.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Eye #Reality #Clothes

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Shoes #People #Pairs

Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Book #People #Agendas

I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Book #Shoes #Suitcases

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Gowns #Balls #Should

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Style #Important #Suits

You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.
-- Carolina Herrera

#Beautiful #Design #Dresses