Carolina Herrera (fashion designer)
| Carolina Herrera | |
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Herrera in 2007
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| Born |
January 8, 1939 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Nationality | Venezuelan, American |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Spouse(s) | Guillermo Behrens Tello (1957–64; divorced); Reinaldo Herrera Guevara |
| Children | 4 |
| Labels | Carolina Herrera New York CH Carolina Herrera |
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| Industry | Luxury Clothing |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
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Key people
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Carolina Herrera |
| Products | Clothes, fragrance |
| Website | http://www.carolinaherrera.com |
Carolina Herrera (born January 8, 1939) is a Venezuelan-American fashion designer known for "exceptional personal style", and for dressing various First Ladies, including Jacqueline Onassis, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, and Melania Trump.
She was born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño on January 8, 1939, in Caracas, Venezuela, to Guillermo Pacanins Acevedo, an air force officer and former governor of Caracas, and María Cristina Niño Passios. Her socialite grandmother introduced her to the world of fashion, taking young Carolina to shows by Balenciaga and buying her outfits at Lanvin and Dior. She has said "My eye was accustomed to see pretty things."
In 1957, at the age of 18, she married Guillermo Behrens Tello, a Venezuelan landowner, with whom she had two daughters, Mercedes and Ana Luisa. They later divorced.
In 1968, in Caracas, she married Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, who had inherited the Spanish title The in 1962 upon his father's death. Reinaldo was the host of Buenos Días, a Venezuelan morning-television news program and the elder son of Don Reinaldo Herrera Uslar, 4th Marquis of Torre Casa, a prominent Venezuelan sugarcane plantation owner, aristocrat and art collector. Therefore, by marriage, Carolina held the title The Marquise consort of Torre Casa, until it was retracted in 1992, as Reinaldo had issued no son. Her husband is a special-projects editor of Vanity Fair magazine, and they have two daughters, Carolina Adriana and Patricia Cristina, and six grandchildren.
In 2009, Herrera became a naturalized United States citizen.
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