Top 44 Carolina Herrera Quotes

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

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.

There’s a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You wouldn’t know it but I’m no good at… cooking. My chef does that.

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.

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

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?

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

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn’t be labelled ‘intellectual.’

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

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

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

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.

Sometimes you see women that don’t realize that age is changing your style, and they don’t change.

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

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

Perfection does not exist – only God is perfect.

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.

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

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