The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out from under you. You can't live in…

- Carmen Dell'orefice

My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and…

- Carmen Dell'orefice

We're all works of art in progress.

- Carmen Dell'orefice

I'm totally formed by my mother's interest in fashion. As a Hungarian immigrant, she couldn't afford clothes. She made all her clothes from patterns.…

- Carmen Dell'orefice

When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' W…

- Carmen Dell'orefice

Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterati…

- Carmen Dell'orefice

There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.

- Carmen Dell'orefice

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

- Carmen Dell'orefice

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

- Carmen Dell'orefice