Reinaldo Herrera: The husband of socialist Carolina Herrera is a former Venezuelan marquis and writer from whom the designer took the surname under which she became famous

Carolina Herrera she built a fashion empire that started from the passion that the designer always had. Secluded from her private life, the famous fashion lady built a home with her second husband, the man who won her heart, after an untimely divorce at the age of 18.

The Venezuelan woman, born in an upper-class family in the society of Caracas, with political ancestors, landowners and statesmen, could not be happy in her first marriage with the landowner Guiller Behrens Tell, with whom she had her first two daughters, Mercedes and Ana Luisa, the newspaper reported. El Mundo.

After separating from her husband, she met her future husband, when she started working at the branch of the Italian company Pucci in Caracas. Herrera was the son of Marquis de la Torre Casa Reinaldo Herrera Uslar, from whom he inherited the title until 1992.

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From an early age, Carolina Herrera was surrounded by luxury, and in her childhood and youth she could wear high fashion clothes, since she grew up in a rich family with her father, Guillermo Pacanins, who became the governor of Caracas, and her mother, María Cristina Niño, a Venezuelan writer.

In that environment, her taste for fashion was cultivated, and her encounter with Balenciaga when she was a girl forever marked her desire to become a renowned designer. Her grandmother introduced her to the seamstress on a trip to Paris, an unforgettable moment for the Venezuelan businesswoman.

Amidst the lack of love left by her first husband, Carolina meets Reinaldo Herrera, who was an aristocrat, known in Venezuela as member of the High Society A millionaire from Caracas. The then editor of Vanity Fair magazine married the designer in 1968.

From her second husband, she took the last name by which she will be known all over the world, and from there her story about a famous fashion designer of international renown begins.

For decades, she devoted herself to motherhood, completing the 4 daughters that life gave her. Due to this decision, her foray into the fashion industry started late, at the age of 42. And it was her husband who became a key element in achieving success.

The newspaper El Mundo points out that with his wife and daughters, the whole family moved to New York City in the United States of America, which will be a decisive step for the realization of their aspirations.

Her husband Reinaldo Herrera took her into the world of glamor with his friends from the international jet set Andy Warhol, Estée Lauder and Jackie Kennedy, for whom she made her wedding dress.

Herrera was the designer’s biggest supporter, at a time when the company she founded, Carolina Herrera, Ltd, did not take off with the same force as years later, when the name of the businesswoman began to lead the industry with an empire that grew rapidly.

In a publication in the newspaper El País, the Venezuelan journalist also gave an interview in 2019 in which he openly stated that he is not jealous of the fame that his wife has achieved, because he has his own undeniable merits in the great success he has achieved.

“No. I guess there’s also vanity, because he wouldn’t have succeeded without me. And she knows it, and she says it. We’ve always been friends. We respect each other,” he said, not diminishing the support he’s been giving his wife for years.

Currently, Herrera is one of the most stable couples in the fashion industry, and the designer spends her days concentrating on the well-being of her family and pampering her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (AND)