Quotes from Carolina Herrera

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

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

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.

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

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

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.

If you ask me to sew a button, I don't know how to do it! The idea of the whole collection and how you want to build your brand is all about working with the right people. And luck!

I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.

When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

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

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?

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

All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.

I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.

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

I don't like to follow too many trends because trends tend to make women look like they are wearing uniforms.

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

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

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.

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.

Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal.