Our Featured Designer: Carolina Herrera

There are presently two 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 2007, she began offering her collection of wedding gowns at European Bridal in Cincinnati Ohio. In a daring marketing move, Herrera's company is aggressively expanding while avoiding major luxury retail corridors such as Madison Avenue, Michigan Avenue or Rodeo Drive and focusing instead on smaller areas like the Reading Bridal District in Cincinnati. This is fortunate for Dayton brides looking for Herrera wedding dresses or other couture gowns because the Reading Bridal District is less than one hour away.

Bio:

Carolina Herrera was born January 8, 1939 as María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño in Caracas, Venezuela. She has become one of the world's most famous fashion designers and entrepreneurs. She founded her couture fashion company in 1980 in New York City since 1981. Herrera managed to become known throughout the 1970s and 1980s as one of the best dressed women in the world. Her gown 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. Herrera is married to Venezuelan Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, who is the son of fashion icon María Teresa Guevara Pietrantoni de Herrera Uslar. She has four daughters.