Carolina Herrera Quotes

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Carolina Herrera

Profession : Designer

Birth : January 8, 1939

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

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

Carolina Herrera

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

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

Carolina Herrera

I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.

Carolina Herrera

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

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Carolina Herrera

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.

Carolina Herrera

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

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

Carolina Herrera

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

Carolina Herrera

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

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

Carolina Herrera

I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.

Carolina Herrera

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

Carolina Herrera

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

Carolina Herrera

Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours getting dressed. I never understood that. What do you do for the two and a half hours after the half hour it takes you to get ready?

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Carolina Herrera

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

Carolina Herrera

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

Carolina Herrera