Donna Karan
Donna Karan
Donna Karan, also known under the alias "DK", is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth2 October 1948
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I have always admired LVMH and the environment it has created for designers in supporting their creativity, emphasizing their individuality, respecting their brands and providing the resources to develop global luxury businesses,
design effort good style toward work
To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
approach design feels good
I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.
design looks needs
I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.
effort feel-good design
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
design one-woman universe
I never see one woman when I design, it's always a universe of women
fashion designer-clothes victim
A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.
fashion design challenges
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
hair next shoe sort
Everything was really thought about from the shoe up to the hair -- sort of like head-to-toe, we are going into the next century,
evening time
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never kind of want to look the same way.
beautiful gray ice sort studies tones whites
beautiful studies of new whites -- whites that are not really white. They're sort of alabaster and ice tones and gray tones.
creates
There's nothing in it, so it creates this rustling kind of effect.
anyone footwear rather
We'd rather they be in our footwear than Nike, Reebok, or anyone else. There's no question.
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We have taken this process very seriously, ... We fully recognize the need to improve our expense structure and build shareholder value.