Carolina Herrera Quotes
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Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
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Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours getting dressed. I never understood that. What do you do for the two and a half hours after the half hour it takes you to get ready?
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I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.
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A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
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When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
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For me, fashion begins in New York.
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Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
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The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
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Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.
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Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
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Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
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You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.
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My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
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You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.
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Keep in shape: if you look good, you will feel confident.
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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.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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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.
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I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.
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Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
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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.
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Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
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We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.