Carolina Herrera

"Maybe fashion was sleeping in me and suddenly it woke up."

"I was growing up, my great interest was my horses, tennis and that’s it, and dogs and normal life, not about fashion."

"The first thing I ever designed was a black dress, for myself, when I was 14 or 15."

"I wanted to be a vamp since I started watching movies from the 1930s and ’40s with Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, where they wore veils and hats and carried cigarette holders."

"My parents never allowed me to wear the dress after I made it."

"It’s important to have love in one’s life, because it makes us more human and, incidentally, more beautiful."

"You don’t have to be afraid of getting older."

"Fear is the most disgusting thing."

"I think I was madly in love with Reinaldo when I was 15 or 16, but then he went to Europe."

"He has always been my great love."

"It’s not simply that you are going to create a collection and you lock yourself in a black room and wait until the muses come down."

"It doesn’t work that way."

"You have to be designing for the women of today."

"Everything is an inspiration."

"A conversation is an inspiration colors, anything if you have your eyes open."

"I stand for glamour and consistency"

"I'm a seamstress, not a manicurist."

"It has been so good because it has been 35 years that I am doing something that I love."

"If you do something for so long, it's really great in your life, right."

"It's been such a journey, sometimes a very happy one, and sometimes a very difficult one."

"Fashion is not easy."

"You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time."

"I say all the time is, "I'm not in the fashion business."

"I'm in the beauty business."

"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."