Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrerais a Venezuelan fashion designer known for "exceptional personal style", and for dressing First Ladies from Jacqueline Onassis to Michelle Obama. The New York Times cited her designs as "elegant and worldly without ever being fussy"...
NationalityVenezuelan
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth8 January 1939
CityCaracas, Venezuela
CountryVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
worry fit fashionable
Even if it doesn't fit the woman, like, let's say a very short skirt, and the woman doesn't have the legs or the height to wear the skirt, but she has to wear it because it's fashionable. Don't do it! If it doesn't look good on you, don't worry about it.
people luck ask-me
If you ask me to sew a button, I don't know how to do it! The idea of the whole collection and how you want to build your brand is all about working with the right people. And luck!
fashion team
When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.
fashion fantasy madness
Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.
personality important
In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.
fighting challenges
Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.
president
I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.
I love myself so much, I simply cannot describe it.
people office problem
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!"
fashion real sense-of-humor
Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.
people fantastic empowered
I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.
people describe-me
I always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand.
taken mean people
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 trying victim
Don't become a fashion victim is what I'm trying to say.