Donna Karan She was born Donna Ivy Fusk on October 2, 1948 in Forest Hills, New York, and she did so in a family associated with fashion, as her mother was a model and her future stepfather was a suit designer. Donna lost her father when she was only 3 years old and when her mother remarried she had to move her residence from the New York borough of Queens to Long Island where she dropped out of school and started selling clothes in a local boutique.
What does Donna Karan mean?
In 1966 his mother got him a place Parsons Fashion School Where you begin to shape your dreams. While in school, Karan got a summer job as a designer Anne Klein. His work there was so outstanding that two years later he was named associate designer. At the age of 26, Karan, who by then had married her first husband, Mark KaranFrom whom he took the title that made him world famous, he was named chief designer after Anna’s death, a position he held for a decade until he founded his own brand. Donna Karan New York In 1984.
Karan, who by then had divorced her first husband and married a second time to painter and sculptor Stephen Weiss, presented her first women’s collection in 1985 called ‘Seven Easy Pieces’. Under the motto “Designing Modern Clothing for People”. The collection was a real success due to its functional and comfortable but sexy style.
What happened to DKNY?
From there the brand’s success began, winning several CFDA awards and launching its second line in 1988, DKNYTargeting a younger, urban audience, expanding its brand reach and establishing its presence in casual and contemporary fashion. In 1991, he began designing menswear and the following year he launched his first fragrance.
Throughout her career, Donna has received multiple honors, including a star on the Walk of Fame in 2002.
The year 2001 marked a before and after for Donna. On the one hand, her second husband Stefan Weiss – to whom she had been married since 1981 – died and on the other, the group LVMH bought his company, where he served as creative director until 2015, when, after 30 years at the firm’s head, he stepped down. Maxwell Osborne And Give it to me. But in 2016, both left the firm marking the end of an era. The following year, LVMH agreed to sell Donna Karan International to an American company G-III clothing group For an estimated price of 650 million euros.
Urban Zen
But after he left, Donna, a vegetarian and believer in alternative therapies, didn’t sit idly by and in 2007 founded Urban ZenA line that includes clothing, accessories and wellness items and has published several books about her life and career.
