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You can't wait for people to tell you you have to know yourself.

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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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People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.
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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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British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
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I think elegance is always going to be there.
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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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I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear you have to decide on your own.
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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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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
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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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The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.
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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 didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
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I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.
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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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