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Biography of Carolina HerreraName: Carolina HerreraBirth Date: January 8, 1939 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Caracas, Venezuela Nationality: Venezuelan Gender: Female Occupations: fashion designer Carolina Herrera Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera (born 1939) ran a thriving fashion empire centered around her designer clothing line that consistently won praise for its elegant, feminine lines after its launch in 1980. The longtime New Yorker was regularly hailed in the media as one of the city's most elegant women and was well-respected inside its fashion industry for her gracious manner. "In a world in which wearing borrowed haute couture on the red carpet signifies great style and erecting an East Hampton faux chateau verifies taste," observed Hal Rubenstein in a 2003 In Style profile, "Herrera is unassailable proof that class and poise depend less on what you have on--or what you move into--than on how you behave."Led a Charmed LifeHerrera is the scion of an old South American family. She "was hardly bred for this sort of business success," noted WWD writer Lorna Koski in 1991. "She was born, in …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…often to La Vega. Herrera was adamant that running a highly successful company such as her own could be done during a normal work week, and she claimed never to work past 5 p.m. "The moment I leave my office I draw a curtain on my work," she told In Style's Rubenstein. "Because you know what is really boring? When you work and work and then work some more, and you don't realize it, but work is all you talk about all the time. Many designers have that problem. Work should be an important part of your life. But for it to be your life? That is very sad." Further Reading Contemporary Fashion, St. James Press, 1995.Newsmakers 1997, Issue 4, Gale, 1997.In Style, June 1, 2000; February 1, 2003.National Review, October 28, 1996.New York Times, January 4, 1994.New York Times Magazine, July 10, 1983.Town & Country, September 1997.W, October 2002.WWD, March 2, 1987; March 7, 1989; May 29, 1990; June 18, 1991; October 20, 1992; August 19, 1997; July 19, 2000; May 7, 2002. |