The following are some famous fashion designers, models, beauty queens and other fashion and beauty personalities in Bolivia. You can read about more famous Bolivians by visiting our Famous People from Bolivia home page where you'll find many other categories. You can also ask questions about any famous Bolivian person or add another famous person from Bolivia to our list.

Beatriz Canedo Patiño
A fashion designer born in La Paz, she studied fine arts and fashion design in France and later moved to New York where she dedicated her time to designing suits made from alpaca fibers. She was successful with her first collection and came to be known as the “queen of alpaca” by the U.S. press. In Bolivia she established her own company called Beatriz Canedo Patiño Alpaca Design, owns two boutiques, and exports her sought-after clothing to many countries in the world.

Liliana Castellanos
A famous fashion designer born in Tarija, she studied design in Argentina. Like Canedo Patiño, she specializes in pure alpaca fiber clothing although her style is very different. She also owns her own company, which carries her name, and exports her fashion worldwide.

Rosita Hurtado
A famous fashion designer from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, she is one of the few Bolivian designers who has participated in international fashion weeks. She lives in the United States where she is known for dressing movie stars and other celebrities.

Erika Weise
A fashion designer born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, she has been working for over two decades, mostly in haute couture. She is one of the referents for national fashion. She studied first under her mother, who was also a seamstress, and then overseas. He has dressed local celebrities, beauty queens, and Carnaval queens.

Tery y Keny Gutiérrez
Both famous fashion icons were born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and began their fashion careers at a very young age as their mother also was, and continues to be, a seamstress. For over ten years these sisters were considered two of the best needle and thread artists both in haute couture and as designers of the Carnaval floats. Tery passed away in 2007 and Keny continues her work alone.

Gloria Suárez de Limpias
A stylist and businesswoman, born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 1946. She began as a hairdresser in a small salon she owned herself and it rapidly grew. She acquired the rights to organize the Miss Santa Cruz and Miss Bolivia contests which, until then, had been carried out in the form of popular elections. She later also purchased the franchises to the most important worldwide competitions including Miss World and Miss Universe to which she sends Bolivian representatives. She also owns her own beauty academy where she trains models and beauty queens.

Rosario Rico Toro y Desiree Durán
Two beauty queens who have made it as far as the top ten in the Miss Universe contest. Rosario is from Cochabamba and made it to fourth place in the 1990 Miss Universe contest. Desiree is from Santa Cruz and placed sixth in the 2006 Miss Universe contest. Rosario did not continue to model when her reign was over and currently resides in the United States where she is a businesswoman in furniture and interior design. Desiree continues to model sporadically, but at this time works primarily as a TV presenter.