Donna Karan

Donna Karan was born 1949, in Queens, New York. She grew up in Long Island with her step-father who was a tailor and her mother who was a model. Being trained at Parson's School of Design, she entered the busines herself, designing for Anne Klein. Eventually she became head of the Anne Klein design-team and remained in this position until 1984. In 1984, Karan left Anne Klein and, together with her then husband Stephan Weiss and Takihyo Corporation, started her own business "to design modern clothes for modern people". She showed her first women's clothing collection in 1985. She launched her collection in 1988 under DKNY ‘ Donna Karan New York’. Donna Karan is known to support the needs of modern women with her clothing. When designing her clothes, Donna Karan claims not have the top model in mind, but women like herself. 

Donna Karan is said to have an interest in Eastern philosophy and meditation, which is reflected in the simplicity of her designs, as some say. The pants, in seamed spandex, are part of the fecundation group of items the designer calls "body pieces," the basis of her Body Forms Resort collection. Beside them, there are jumpsuit and a jacket, the natural evolution, the designer said, of her famous bodysuits. Innerwear gone outerwear, in effect—play up the sporty motif that imbued the entire collection. There were scuba jackets and piecework collage skirts. Skintight tops paired with voluminous skirts. There were cocoons, cape coats, and flaring trenches here, too. But the message that read most clearly was the female form and all its curves.

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