Carolina Herrera Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new. — Carolina Herrera

We always know better than anybody else what looks best on us. Even if people are complimenting you, if you think, 'I hate what I have on,' it's not right. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

I can get ready in 10 minutes. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Intuition is a strong feminine quality. — 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

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at ... cooking. My chef does that. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life. — 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

I love white shirts because they feel like a security blanket. 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

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

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

I've had work done on my eyes in the past. However, I think there are limits. I wouldn't ever have too much done, as it looks unnatural, and I don't think you should do anything to your lips, as it changes the entire shape of your face. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

I am truly happy with what I've got. But if I could alter something, it would be my hands. I've never been satisfied with them - I would love longer fingers. — Carolina Herrera

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. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

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

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

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read. — Carolina Herrera

In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community. — Carolina Herrera

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. — Carolina Herrera

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. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

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

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

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie. — Carolina Herrera

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 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

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

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

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

When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

Keep in shape: if you look good, you will feel confident. — Carolina Herrera

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

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

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

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