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)
thinking important sense-of-humor
I think a sense of humor is the most important thing anyone can have.
personality important
In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.
fashion trying victim
Don't become a fashion victim is what I'm trying to say.
long really-great
If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right?
beautiful fit glamorous
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.
fashion art art-is
The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.
fashion evolution sometimes
I approach fashion as an evolution. It's always changing. As you know, sometimes it changes in three months.
fashion
Fashion has to be worn; otherwise it doesn't exist.
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.
home married late
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.
perfection perfect doe
Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
fashion together psychologist
You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together.
book shoes suitcases
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.