After staying in Peru for a year and London for six months,[2] at the age of 12, she and her family relocated to Manchester, England during Pinochet's dictatorship.
[1] Cornejo's clients include Michelle Obama, Tilda Swinton, Christy Turlington and Cindy Sherman.
[4] Cornejo was the Fashion Prize winner of the 2006 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards after being selected as a finalist in 2005.
In 2010, Cornejo won the first CFDA Lexus Eco Fashion Challenge and in 2017 was awarded one of the top three prizes in the CFDA + Lexus Fashion* Initiative, a 17-month long business development program aimed at accomplishing measurable sustainability changes within the business.
In 2018, Cornejo was honored with the Fashion Group International’s Sustainability Award at their Night of the Stars Gala in New York City.