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)
regret want young
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.
eye reality clothes
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.
thinking retiring
When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
fashion new-york
For me, fashion begins in New York.
fashion fun intellectual
Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'
book people agendas
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.
fashion compliments-you buying
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.
seems interfere
Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
beautiful design looks
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.
discipline taught emotion
I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
gowns balls should
You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
long life-is-hard too-short
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.
luxury matter world
Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
fashion past thinking
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.