Quotes by Carolina Herrera

“A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.”

“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 ...”

“Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.”

“You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.”

“A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.”

“Maybe fashion was sleeping in me and suddenly it woke up.”

“I was growing up, my great interest was my horses, tennis and that’s it, and dogs and normal life, not about fashion.”

“The first thing I ever designed was a black dress, for myself, when I was 14 or 15.”

“I wanted to be a vamp since I started watching movies from the 1930s and ’40s with Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, where they wore veils and hats and carried cigarette holders.”

“My parents never allowed me to wear the dress after I made it.”

“It’s important to have love in one’s life, because it makes us more human and, incidentally, more beautiful.”

“You don’t have to be afraid of getting older.”

“Fear is the most disgusting thing.”

“I think I was madly in love with Reinaldo when I was 15 or 16, but then he went to Europe.”

“He has always been my great love.”

“It’s not simply that you are going to create a collection and you lock yourself in a black room and wait until the muses come down.”

“It doesn’t work that way.”