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)
looks trends
I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.
lying clothes deny
All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.
mean age passionate
Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
fashion thinking important
Can I tell you who is the most important fashion icon in the world? Queen Elizabeth of England. Think about that. She has never put her foot anywhere wrong and always looks fantastic.
inspiration book painting
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
beautiful fashion style
Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.
fashion ideas together
Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
sense-of-humor
It's not all about beauty! It's also about a sense of humor.
inspirational elegance do-you-know
Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.
nobody-knows
Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.
speak elegance defined
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
deal dresses inventing seriously treated women
You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new.
spend time work
When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
major prefer
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.