Top 50 Carolina Herrera Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Perfection does not exist – only God is perfect.”

— Carolina Herrera

2. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

3. “Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

6. “It’s important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn’t only what you wear, it’s what you project.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

8. “Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.”

— Carolina Herrera

9. “Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

11. “Intuition is a strong feminine quality.”

— Carolina Herrera

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12. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

13. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

14. “Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you’re wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

18. “I don’t like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.”

— Carolina Herrera

19. “Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.”

— Carolina Herrera

20. “I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I’m involved in every day. I need another world.”

— Carolina Herrera

21. “I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.”

— Carolina Herrera

22. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

23. “You feel very romantic when you’re in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.”

— Carolina Herrera

24. “I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O’Hara.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

26. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

28. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

29. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

30. “I have always loved trouser suits. It’s something I absolutely believe in for women.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

32. “Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I’m a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.”

— Carolina Herrera

33. “Fashion should be fun. It shouldn’t be labelled ‘intellectual.’”

— Carolina Herrera

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34. “I have a responsibility to the woman of today – to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.”

— Carolina Herrera

35. “I can get ready in 10 minutes.”

— Carolina Herrera

36. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

37. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

39. “Work doesn’t seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.”

— Carolina Herrera

40. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

41. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

43. “Politics are private. I don’t understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

45. “For me, fashion begins in New York.”

— Carolina Herrera

46. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

47. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera

49. “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.”

— Carolina Herrera

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

— Carolina Herrera