Carolina Herrera is a Venezuelan-American fashion designer, known for her elegance and class in dressing celebrities around the world. Born to a wealthy family and coming from a privileged background, her mother instilled in her passion and discipline that helped her transform into an elegant woman. During the seventies and eighties, she was quite well known in Venezuela because of the fact that she was considered to be one of the best dressed women in the country. Later, the family moved to New York where she decided to become a fashion designer. Despite not having any training as a designer she soon became very successful at it and was dressing some of the most famous women in the world which led to a huge boom in the popularity of her clothes. Since then, she has continued to expand her line of luxury products over the years to include perfume, cologne, wedding gowns, scarves, handbags and other accessories. Her company has emerged as one of the most successful fashion houses in New York. Her skills as a designer are well recognized as she has won a number of awards in the field. She has been able to build a brand that is very distinguished and well respected in the world of high fashion.