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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
Intellectual
Solely
Clothes
Elegance
Fashion
Elegant
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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.
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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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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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You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.
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Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.
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Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal. You either have it or you don't, but I don't think it's the end of the world if you don't have it!
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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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You have to have a full-length mirror in your house so you can see what is missing and what you have to add to your look.
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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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I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.
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Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'
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Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
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I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
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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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If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right?
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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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Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
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British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
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I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.
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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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