by Reinaldo Herrera, a referee of the social set and international style, died at the age of 91.
Herrera, whose name and similarity are connected to his fashion designer of more than 50 years of Carolina, died in his house in Manhattan on Tuesday.
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He was born in Caracas, where his father Don Reinaldo Herrera was the 4th Marquis of Torre Casa when Reinaldo Herrera Uslar, was born as Rusto-Herrera Guevara. After visiting the High School as a boarder at St. Mark’s School in Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard University and Georgetown University. Herrera worked in Venezuela as a journalist at “Buenos Dias”, a morning news program.
The Herreras married in Caracas in 1968. Herrera inherited the Spanish title of the 5th Marquis de Torre Casa after the death of his father four years ago. The Herreras later moved to New York, where he continued his brand in the media world when he joined Vanity Fair when Tina Brown was at the head of the mast head. The Herrera is known to be charming, intellectually and curious that he continued in the possession of Condé Nast all his life after Graydon Carter followed Brown.
But it was his family that he mainly appreciated. He and Carolina shared four daughters: Carolina and Patricia Herrera Lansing from their marriage and Mercedes Mendoza and Ana Luisa Bruchou from the first marriage of the designer, which ended with a divorce.
Carolina Herrera once said about her husband: “I think I was insane in Reiningo when I was 15 or 16 years old, but then he went to Europe.
Before Carolina Herrera became a force in fashion with her own signature designer label, she was known as the “Mrs. Life, work, family and travel can be a difficult combination to compensate for many brave names, but Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera seemed to have this formula cold.
They moved from Venezuela to the United States and were known to be with a fashionable amount, including Nan Kempner, Carroll and Milton Petrie, Mica and Ahmet Ertegun, Chessy Rayner, Aileen Mehle, Estée Lauder, Bill Blass and other well -affected New Yorkers. During the decades, the name of the designer was always accompanied by her husband’s WWD reports on her social excursions. Before he flew to Caracas in 1978 to be with her children during the holidays, the couple organized 80 friends, including Truman Capote at a lunch in doubles.
“It is important to have love in your own life because it makes us more human and by the way more beautiful,” said the designer on another occasion.
Although he never worked in Herreras in New York, the designer WWD said early on in her fashion career that he was “the godfather” of all her collections. Herrera has been a stinder for decades and was one of the selected decision -makers for the international best clothing list, which served as a gold standard in the period before the Internet. In 2003 the list was followed after the death of the creator of the list of fashion, Eleanor Lambert, Herrera, Amy Fine Collins, Carter and Aimée Bell – everyone is now alumni from Vanity Fair. When the IBDL was all digital in 2022 via Carter’s air post subscribers, Herrera still helped to name the recordings. He said WWD in 2019: “Taste is innate.
Carter said on Tuesday that Herrera has been fair in the past 40 years of “a big part” of his life and life of his family and life of Vanity. “I worshiped Reinaldo and will miss him the following every day,” said Carter. “He had a joie de vivre and a sparkle in his eye that is never replaced.
As a contamination and effortless Kommoer, Herrera also contributed to setting the bar himself. In October 1982, in the fashion show of his wife in the New York Public Library and making his own contractual modes statement in Blue Jeans and a marine blazer appeared at his wife’s fashion show in October 1982. He had so Élan that he could go with his hands in the pockets of a tuxedo jacket.
On Tuesday, Collins said that Herrera was “the best colleagues with sources in abundance for every story” on which she may work, and he has developed great ideas for history for the magazine.
“He had an eye for the style that we were dependent on when we won the award winners for the international best clothing list.” He even ate one of his favorite snacks, Fritos, elegant. “
The legendary photographer Robert Maplethorpe also appreciated his high style and took Herrera in a black and white portrait and in 1977 carried a pin strip suit with a black cloak over a shoulder in New York. In the previous year, Mapplethorpe Herra, who laughed Lord with Princess Margaret with an open bottle with a bottle with the bottle of meat in the front of the meat. He looked like he had lived – enjoyed life. With his distinctive style, Herrera appeared when he himself appeared in the film “Agnelli” 2017 and in the documentary “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Must”.
The quick-witted Herrera always seemed to have a sparkle in his eye and a joke-or some information that he would willingly pass on. Dinner in the Lord was a night with a free conversation about books, films, travel, art, politics and more – but so seriously that the conversation was always interrupted with roaring laughter. Nothing was ever taken too seriously.
In 1982 Herrera demonstrated his guile in Willy Bogner’s “Crystal Dreams” travancy in the Pierre Hotel. In the midst of the beautiful people and looking for a phone to call his wife, Herrera became Herrera after saying that the bistro had a thin DIME out of the label. “This is a way to get a handout,” he joked the WWD.
Like his wife, Herrera later became American citizens’ life. In 2017, he publicly expressed the political unrest in Venezuela after a nephew, Reinaldo Herrera, was kidnapped and killed, and another nephew Roberto Picon Herrera, a pro-democratic activist, was held in a military prison.
Died in advance by his sister Carolina and a brother Gonzalo, Herrera is survived by his brother Luis Felipe, his wife Carolina and her four daughters mentioned above.
A private funeral fair is planned for Friday morning in St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City. In accordance with his wishes, Herrera will be buried in Caracas, Venezuela, where he was born.
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