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Carolina Herrera is a world renowned fashion designer and mother who oversees an international design firm, Carolina Herrera Ltd.

After receiving a positive reaction to a fashion collection she created in 1981 as a "test," she moved with her family to New York from Caracas and formed Carolina Herrera, Ltd. Her exquisitely detailed and expertly crafted creations were an immediate success. Chic, sophisticated women all over the world turned to Herrera's label for the type of impeccable suits, dresses and gowns that she instinctively knew how to design.

Herrera's noble sensibility enabled her to make the transition as a chic and renowned beauty on the international scene - where she spent days with royals and nights with the Warhol crowd - to a designer with such talent and business acumen that she could not be ignored. She has an entirely straightforward approach toward her business - which Herrera founded 25 years ago after being prompted by fashion legend Diana Vreeland and her friend Count Rudi Crespi.

Along with the newly launched CH fragrance, she oversees an international design firm that encompasses her signature fashion collection, a bridal collection, fragrances and accessories. Sales extend around the world. In 1987 Herrera expanded her business with the launch of her first fragrance, Carolina Herrera. a men's fragrance, Carolina Herrera for Men, soon followed. Since then, she and her daughter, Carolina, have introduced several more fragrances including the floral Floré, 212 and 212 MEN, CHIC and 212 Sexy. The newest fragrance, CH Carolina Herrera, unveiled in the spring of 2009. Herrera credits her daughter Carolina as muse and collaborator in her fragrances.

The first Carolina Herrera flagship store opened in the fall of 2000 on Madison Avenue in New York and was followed in July 2006 with a boutique on Melrose Place in Los Angeles. The brand continued expanding in March 2008, opening its third exclusive boutique at Highland Park Village in Dallas.

In June 2008, the Council of Fashion Designers of America honored Herrera with the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award. This award was in recognition of 26 years of hard work. With countless projects in her future including new fragrances, a breast cancer awareness campaign and with her ongoing work as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, Carolina Herrera continues to bring her unique vision to the world.

As for her philanthropic work, Herrera is currently a Goodwill Ambassador as well as a Facilitator for the IIMSAM, helping to fight against malnutrition. The style icon has four daughters: Mercedes, Ana Luisa, Carolina and Patricia. In particular, her daughter Carolina has been a close collaborator for many of her lines and a source of fresh inspiration. Her daughter Carolina, who appears in the Milk Mustache ad with her, is a mother of three.