Carolina Herrera Quotes

When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated.

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

I like things that are civilized.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

People probably think I'm cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It's not about my look.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

The French like to play the intellectual card; they don't like to be over-sexy. The sexiness comes from the way they walk and hold themselves.

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.