Carolina Herrera Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

For me, fashion begins in New York.

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

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!

It's not all about beauty! It's also about a sense of humor.

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

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

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

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.

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

Just wear what you think looks beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

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.

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

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.