Donna Karan: 47 facts about the famous fashion designer!

Donna Karan is a famous fashion designer who has really influenced the industry.

Donna Karan is a fashion designer, who is quite popular about her good taste in fashion. So let’s see more facts about her!

1. He full name is Donna Ivy Faske.
2. She was born on October 2nd in 1948.
3. She is also known as “DK”.
4. She is an American fashion designer.
5. She is also the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
6. Her mother’s name is Helen and her father’s name is Gabbie Fiskie.
7. She also has an older sister, Gail.
8. He family is Jewish.
9. She was born in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Borough of Queens, New York City.
10. Karan’s mother had been a model.
11. She also worked in designer Chester Weinberg’s showroom.
12. Her father was a tailor and haberdasher.
13. He died when Donna was three years old.
14. Donna took pleasure in softball, volleyball, and basketball, cut classes in high school.
15. She also spent a lot of her time in the art department.
16. She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966.
17. After that went to the Parsons School of Design.
18. After leaving college, Karan worked for Anne Klein.
20. Karan began her career as an assistant designer with Anne Klein in the late 1960s, where she was promoted to associate designer in 1971.
21. As Klein’s assistant, Karan was a participant in The Battle of Versailles Fashion Show on November 28, 1973.
22. When Klein herself died in 1974, Takihyo Corporation of Japan became the new owner and Karan, together with her former classmate and friend Louis Dell’Ollio, became head designer of the house.
23. Karan won the Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award in 1977.
24. She once again won it in 1982 together with Louis Dell’Ollio for Anne Klein.
25. She remained the head of the house until 1984 when she launched her Donna Karan label.
26. She launched it along with he then-husband Stephan Weiss and Takihyo Corporation
27. She showed her first women’s clothing collection in 1985.
28. In 1988, Karan nicknamed The Queen Of Seventh Avenue.
29. She extended her women’s ‘Donna Karan New York’ line by creating a less expensive clothing line for younger women, called DKNY. 
30. Two years later, she created DKNY Jeans, a denim-inspired collection. DKNY for men was launched in 1992, one year after the ‘Signature’ line for men had been presented.
31. In 1992, Karan also released her “cold shoulder” dress, a jersey long-sleeved dress that featured deep cutouts at the shoulders to reveal the skin beneath.
32. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) named her Menswear Designer of the Year 1992.
33. In addition, it named her as Womenswear Designer of the Year 1990 and 1996.
34. Karan left her CEO position in 1997.
35. She continued though as chairwoman and designer for the Donna Karan line.
36. After 2002, Karan didn’t contribute to the brand so much.
37. In August 2008, Karan relaunched her discontinued fragrance lines from the 1990s.
38. In 2015, Donna Karan announced that she would be stepping down as head of her own company/
39. The reason why she decided that was to focus on her lifestyle brand, Urban Zen, established by Karan in 2007.
40. n 1976 Donna Faske married Mark Karan.
41. Together they have a daughter.
42. They divorced in 1978.
43. In 1983, she got married with the artist Stephan Weiss.
44. Later he became the co-CEO of the Donna Karan company.
45. Weiss died of lung cancer in 2001.
46. Karan currently lives in Northwest Harbor (East Hampton), New York.
47. She also owns houses in New York City and the Turks & Caicos Islands.