At a party in an upscale mall, wealthy women and young girls in cocktail dresses cluster around the chicest of them all: Carolina Herrera.

Herrera, dressed in one of her signature white shirts and full skirts with matching heels, poses for photographs like a pro for hours. She smiles and chats and does interviews with the media.

"Darling, I have been doing this for 28 years, so I suppose that if they don't know by now, after 28 years, then I have been doing something wrong," she said. "If they don't know about me, maybe I shouldn't be here"...