Carolina Herrera Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm not going to say that I'm perfect. I do have fashion crises.

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

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

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

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

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

The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.

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

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

We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

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

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

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

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

I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.

It is difficult to read the reviews when you start because you see something in your collection and the press sees something else. That is when you have to be very strong about your own style. They can say whatever they want, but I do what I do because I love it.

If you date someone who isn't very good-looking but makes you laugh, you will never forget it.

There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.

Something you wore three months ago, maybe you don't wear it again. I am a great believer that if something looks very good on you, you can wear it again, and it's not the end of the world.

I think a sense of humor is the most important thing anyone can have.

Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal. You either have it or you don't, but I don't think it's the end of the world if you don't have it!

I think elegance is always going to be there.

I don't like to follow too many trends because trends tend to make women look like they are wearing uniforms.

Even if it doesn't fit the woman, like, let's say a very short skirt, and the woman doesn't have the legs or the height to wear the skirt, but she has to wear it because it's fashionable. Don't do it! If it doesn't look good on you, don't worry about it.

If you ask me to sew a button, I don't know how to do it! The idea of the whole collection and how you want to build your brand is all about working with the right people. And luck!

When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.

Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

I love myself so much, I simply cannot describe it.

Sometimes I'm a psychiatrist and I tell people in my office that my door is open, and if they have a problem to come and talk to me. Sometimes I say, "I have to close the door because I don't want to hear it!"

Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.

I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.

I always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand.

I walk in the park every day, and when people come and ask for a photograph, I say, "Oh, my God!" It means they recognize that I have been doing something right and they want to have a photograph taken with me.

Don't become a fashion victim is what I'm trying to say.

Just wear what you think looks beautiful.

If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right?

Fashion is not easy. You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time.

I'm not in the fashion business; I'm in the beauty business.

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

You have to find your own style, and it's difficult to define what style is. It's not what you're wearing; it's how you wear it. It's something very personal, and it reflects the way you live and your house, the books you read, the art you have.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.

The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.

I approach fashion as an evolution. It's always changing. As you know, sometimes it changes in three months.

Fashion has to be worn; otherwise it doesn't exist.

If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.

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.

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.

You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together.

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.

You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

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

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.

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

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

You have to have a full-length mirror in your house so you can see what is missing and what you have to add to your look.

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

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

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.

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own.

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

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.

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.

For me, fashion begins in New York.

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

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.

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

Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.

Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal.

I can get ready in 10 minutes.

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

Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

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.

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.

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.

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

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

The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you have to know a little about art and literature and music because there is inspiration in all of these things. You're looking for beauty but also something that makes sense.

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

You never forget people who make you laugh.

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

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.

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.

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

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.