Carolina Herrera

“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?”

“Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.”

“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 white shirts because they feel like a security blanket. You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.”

“British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.”

“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.”

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

“You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.”

“I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.”

“There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.”

“We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.”

“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.”

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

“Intuition is a strong feminine quality.”

“את מרגישה מאוד רומנטית בשמלת נשף. כל אחת צריכה ללבוש כזו מדי פעם.”

“להלביש לשטיח האדום זה דבר מאוד מסובך עבור המעצבים, מצד אחד האמנים רוצים להתלבש נורא מפואר ומיוחד, אבל אם האמן לא באמת נראה מצוין, אז זה נראה ממש ממש רע.”

“כשאני מעצבת אני תמיד חוזרת אל הגלאמור, אל שחקניות הוליווד הישנות, היום אתה כבר רואה הכול באופנה, אבל הפרשנות שלך היא מה שחשוב. היכולת שלך לספר את הסיפור דרך הפריזמה שלך.”

“גדלתי במשפחה בה כל הנשים התלבשו היטב, אמי מאוד אהבה את לנוון וסבתי את בלנסיאגה. אני מאמינה שכשאתה גדל אל תוך מראות יפים כאלה זה מחלחל ומשפיע.”

“I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.”

“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.”