MarÃa Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño: Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera (born January 8, 1939 as MarÃa Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño in Caracas, Venezuela) is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980 with great success. 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.
Carlina Herrera: One of the World's Most Elegant Women
I don't know about you, but I appreciate good taste and elegance! Carolina Herrera combines a warm personality and Artistic designer talent with refined elegance and taste. It is not without a reason that her and Jackie Kennedy Onassis were close. If you are as famous as Jackie was, and as much in the public, you want only some of the best designers to make clothes for you, understandably. There is something aristocratic and noble about Carolina Herrera, that is completely natural, genuine and everlasting, like the fashion items she designs.One can literally sense through her products the strong desire to not wanting to settle for mediocrity in life, not wanting to take the first one, but the best one! She is a beautiful, passionate, yet stylish woman with a generous heart who definitely impacted the World of Fashion with her legacy. One can only wish that all women would learn her tasteful, understated elegance not only in the dresses they wear, but also in every aspect of their life. She is a true role model and a much valued friend to those who were fortunate enough to meet her. [This photo shows her in New York in 2007, with an Andy Warhol picture].
New YouTube vids
Carolina Herrera's Classical Style
Carolina Herrera's Business Emporium
After years on the US list of best-dressed women, Herrera created her first ready-to-wear collection in 1981. A New York based designer, she produced a collection of layered clothes which used a variety of fabrics in different length. She holds her fashion shows in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel.She launched her fur collection in 1984 and her CH Collection (a more affordable line) in 1986. Her bridal line was launched in 1987, after she designed Caroline Kennedy's wedding gown. Her perfume lines followed in 1988.
There are currently 2 Carolina Herrera flagship boutiques in the world. The New York flagship is located on Madison Avenue and the 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, while avoiding major luxury retail corridors such as Madison Avenue, Michigan Avenue or Rodeo Drive 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. [This photo shows Rene Zellweger in her red Carolina Herrera dress.]
Carolina Herrera's Private Life
She was born in Venezuela in 1939. Carolina traveled in Europe excessively in her childhood, and attended her first couture show at Balenciaga when she was 13, along with her fashionable grandmother.Carolina Herrera has four daughters from two marriages. She has been married to Venezuelan Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, son of fashion icon MarÃa Teresa (MimÃ) Guevara Pietrantoni de Herrera Uslar, with whom she had two daughters. Prior to this marriage, she was married to Guillermo Behrens Tello. Both marriages were blessed with two daughters, each.
Carolina Herrera is a Goodwill Ambassador 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 once said, "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 on Amazon
Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon
Amazon Price: $37.80 (as of 09/05/2008)
Carolina Herrera
Amazon Price: (as of 09/05/2008)
Fashion Designers on Amazon
Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel
Amazon Price: $37.80 (as of 09/05/2008)
Chanel and Her World
Amazon Price: $37.80 (as of 09/05/2008)
Fashion Illustration for Designers
Amazon Price: $62.82 (as of 09/05/2008)
Madeleine Vionnet
Amazon Price: $63.00 (as of 09/05/2008)
Books About Fashion Desginers
The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: An Insider's Look at Starting and Running Your Own Fashion Business
Amazon Price: (as of 09/05/2008)
The Fashion Book
Amazon Price: (as of 09/05/2008)
Different Like Coco
Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 09/05/2008)
Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness
Amazon Price: $39.20 (as of 09/05/2008)
Designer Style Handbags: Techniques and Projects for Unique, Fun, and Elegant Designs from Classic to Retro
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 09/05/2008)
Check Out Classic Treasures, an Awesome Online Store!
If you enjoy elegant clothing, don't even look any further!
Apparel for ladies and gentlemen of exquisite taste by Vittadini, Oscar de la Renta, Ferragamo, Orlandi, Dooney & Bourke Trussardi, Biasia, Gucci, Fendi, Falor, Berge, Marie Antoinette, Talbots, Buchman, Escada, Esprit, MAXX, Hype, Kors, Nautica, Ralph Lauren, Geoffrey Beene, Izod, Greg Norman, John Ashford, Club Room, Donald Trump, and other designers. Indulge in cashmere, silk, wool. Classic Treasures, your number one source of elegance! - R M Richards Black Dress 14 nwt new
- Check out the elegant clothing, handbags, shoes, jewelry and accessories at Classic Treasures! Beautiful dress by R M Richards in size 14 misses lined, lace detail, beaded detail, sequin detail, originally 2 piece set, now only dress is available!
Classic Treasures RSS: Add Your Own Feed
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byCarolina Herrera Stuff on Amazon
Seamless
Amazon Price: $8.99 (as of 09/05/2008)
The Big Cube
Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 09/05/2008)
Carolina for Women by 1.7 oz Eau De Toilette Spray
Amazon Price: (as of 09/05/2008)
$2890 New CAROLINA HERRERA Tan Yellow Trim Skirt 12
Amazon Price: $499.99 (as of 09/05/2008)
New YouTube vids
Carolina Herrera Highlight
Carolina Herrera Fall Collections 2007 Runway Highlights
Runtime: 1:40
5386 views
5 Comments:
New eBay
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
Fashion Desginers
Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers
Amazon Price: $75.10 (as of 09/05/2008)
Halston: An American Original
Amazon Price: (as of 09/05/2008)
Who's Who in Fashion
Amazon Price: $32.00 (as of 09/05/2008)
Christian Dior
Amazon Price: (as of 09/05/2008)
Chanel (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
Amazon Price: (as of 09/05/2008)
Please leave behind a friendly blurb. Thanks!
Like this lens? Want to share your feedback, or just give a thumbs up? Be the first to submit a blurb!
