Explore Quotes by Carolina Herrera

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens to everyone. What can you do? Go and tell her, 'Don't wear that dress again'? We designers always have fantasies in our heads, but the difficult task is to make them reality. Because you can be the best designer, but designing in your own place and with nobody wearing [your clothes], then what happens? You're nowhere.

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery!

I can get ready in 10 minutes.

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

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.

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.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

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.

I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

For me, fashion begins in New York.

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.