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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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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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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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Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
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It's not all about beauty! It's also about a sense of humor.
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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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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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Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
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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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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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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
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British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
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Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
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I approach fashion as an evolution. It's always changing. As you know, sometimes it changes in three months.
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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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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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There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.
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Even if it doesn't fit the woman, like, let's say a very short skirt, and the woman doesn't have the legs or the height to wear the skirt, but she has to wear it because it's fashionable. Don't do it! If it doesn't look good on you, don't worry about it.
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I love myself so much, I simply cannot describe it.
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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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