Carolina Herrera (Carolina Pacanins
Niño de Herrera Guevara). Born in Caracas,
Venezuela in 1939, she is a
fashion designer
and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous
company in 1980 with great success. Based in
New York since 1981, Herrera managed to
qualify, throughout the 1970s and 1980s as
one of the best dressed women in the world.
Her empire grew so rapidly and steadily
since its creation that she went on to dress
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the last
twelve years of her life. She is married to
Venezuelan socialite 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.