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Carolina Herrera (fashion designer)

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Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera, September 2007. Photo by Christopher Peterson.
Name	Carolina Herrera
Nationality	Venezuelan
Birth date	January 8, 1939 (1939-01-08) (age 68)
Birth place	Caracas, Venezuela
Working life
Label name	Carolina Herrera New York CH Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera (born January 8, 1939 as María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño in Caracas, Venezuela) is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980.

Based in New York City 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 Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, Marqués de Torre Casa, an editor at Vanity Fair magazine, with whom she had two daughters. She was previously married to Guillermo Behrens Tello, bearing him two daughters as well.

Carolina Herrera is a Goodwill Ambassador^[1] and Facilitator for the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition, IIMSAM, and its affirmative action programme, ‘The Right to Food Campaign Initiative Against Malnutrition’. IIMSAM works to promote the use of micro-algae Spirulina (Spirulina Platensis) to counter malnutrition and its severe negative impacts especially in the Developing and Least Developed Countries (LDC). Carolina states-"If my work at the IIMSAM were to save the life of even one child from the forty thousand children that die of malnutrition and related diseases each day, I would consider it the greatest work of my life."

Carolina Herrera New York
Type	Private
Founded	1980
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Key people	Carolina Herrera
Industry	Luxury Clothing
Products	Clothes
Website	http://www.carolinaherrera.com

1 Company & Expansion
2 Boutique Locations
- 2.1 Carolina Herrera New York
- 2.2 CH Carolina Herrera
3 References
4 External links

There are two Carolina Herrera flagship boutiques in the world. The New York flagship is located on Madison Avenue, and Los Angeles, California flagship on Melrose Place.

In 2003, Carolina Herrera launched a lifestyle brand called CH Carolina Herrera. In that year, the company opened four stores at The Galleria in Houston, Texas, Americana Manhasset, in Manhasset, New York, The Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas, Nevada, and The Village of Merrick Park in Coral Gables, Florida. In 2006, the retailer opened a boutique in South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, and in NorthPark Center in Dallas, Texas.

The company is aggressively expanding this lifestyle brand, and it anticipates to open more stores in 2007 in Austin and San Antonio in Texas; Orlando, Tampa and Palm Beach in Florida; San Diego; Phoenix, and eventually, Los Angeles.