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Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Carolina Herrera

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Carolina Herrera
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 8
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Ciudad de Caracas Venezuela
María Carolina Josefina Pacanins Niño
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Just wear what you think looks beautiful.
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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.
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In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.
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If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right?
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You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.
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You have to find your own style, and it's difficult to define what style is. It's not what you're wearing it's how you wear it. It's something very personal, and it reflects the way you live and your house, the books you read, the art you have.
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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.
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You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.
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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.
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Don't become a fashion victim is what I'm trying to say.
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Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.
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I think elegance is always going to be there.
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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.
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I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.
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The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.
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It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.
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I walk in the park every day, and when people come and ask for a photograph, I say, Oh, my God! It means they recognize that I have been doing something right and they want to have a photograph taken with me.
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It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.
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I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.
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Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
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