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
design one-woman universe
I never see one woman when I design, it's always a universe of women
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I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.
behind bodies eighties fashion feels hide longer sensuality shoulders strong suits themselves woman women
Today, fashion is really about sensuality - how a woman feels on the inside. In the eighties women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies - they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.
add beginning modern pieces sort tube works
The beginning of the show is all about the tube pieces and then from there it works sort of like a conveyor belt. You just add a piece, and add a piece, and add a piece. For me that's modern dressing.
naive sensuality shows time
It's naive and sweet, yet at the same time it has a sensuality because it shows your breasts.
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.
giving question tools
No question about it. I think she's told us that. You know it's not about us dictating, just giving her tools for her to do it.
english few met reminded speak time
She's really tiny, but she's really cute. She reminded me of the first time I met Natalia a few years ago. She didn't speak English so well at the beginning, either.
angela anyone shoes
She has very big shoes to fill, but if anyone can do it, Angela can.
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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,
beautiful color created hair letting sort
Natural, beautiful color on the face. We want the casualness of the hair and it's sort of rumpled, you know -- but it's done with intention. So it's not just letting your hair go naturally, but we've created the natural.