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)
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.
thinking done retiring
If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.
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.
gowns balls should
You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.
luxury matter world
Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
house curiosity moments
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.
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.