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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 very important to have a definitive style as a designer.
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You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.
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A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
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I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.
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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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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 don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.
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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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Intuition is a strong feminine quality.
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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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Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
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I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.
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Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
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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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The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you have to know a little about art and literature and music because there is inspiration in all of these things. You're looking for beauty but also something that makes sense.
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When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.
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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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I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.
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If you date someone who isn't very good-looking but makes you laugh, you will never forget it.
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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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