Carolina Herrera
I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
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.
Keep in shape: if you look good, you will feel confident.
It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.
When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.
Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
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.
A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
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.
Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.
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.
People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'
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.
Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.Collection: Inspirational
In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.Collection: Personality
Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
I love myself so much, I simply cannot describe it.Collection: I Love Myself
Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Art
Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal.Collection: Sex
I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.Collection: People
The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.Collection: Fashion
I don't like to follow too many trends because trends tend to make women look like they are wearing uniforms.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Memories
Just wear what you think looks beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: House
Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.Collection: Fun
All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.Collection: Lying
I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Tired
I think elegance is always going to be there.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Strong
Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.Collection: Fashion
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!"Collection: Doors
Fashion is not easy. You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Art
I think a sense of humor is the most important thing anyone can have.Collection: Thinking
The word "elegance" is a bit different now.Collection: Different
When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.Collection: Fashion
There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Taken
If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Mirrors
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.Collection: Beautiful