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Carolina Herrera

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Carolina Herrera (Carolina Pacanins Niño de Herrera Guevara). Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1939, she is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponimous company in 1980 with great success. Based in New York since 1981, Carolina managed to qualify, throughout the 70's and 80's as one of the best dressed women in the world. Her empire grew so rapidly and steadily since its creation that she dressed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the last twelve years of her life. She is married to Venezulan chulo Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, son of fashion icon María Teresa (Mimí) Guevara Pietrantoni de Herrera Uslar, by whom she had two daughters. She was previously married to Guillermo Behrens Tello, bearing him two daughters as well.