Carolina Herrera

“I am truly happy with what I've got. But if I could alter something, it would be my hands. I've never been satisfied with them - I would love longer fingers.”

“My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.”

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

“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.”

“When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.”

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

“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.”

“Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.”

“It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.”

“There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.”

“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.”

“In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.”

“You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.”

“I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.”

“Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.”

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