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Donna Karan Gets Inspired By Daughter
Own a pair of DKNY jeans? Designer Donna Karan says the line was inspired by her daughter.
In an interview with Britain’s Harper’s Bazaar, Donna says she realized she had to make clothes for teens when her daughter Gabby started grabbing clothes from her closet.
She explained, “My daughter Gabby and her friends were borrowing the clothes in my closet – she was constantly walking around in these glamorous dresses. I would say, ‘Wait a second, that’s a $15,000 gown you are wearing.’ And she would go off to school. She thought my closet was her closet, that’s kind of how mothers and daughters work.
“I thought, ‘This is going to be a problem,’ because I was designing for me and my friends, not my daughter and her friends. I realized there was a whole generation I could be designing for, my children and my grandchildren. I needed to design the jeans, the T-shirts, the basics.”
The rest was history and DKNY was launched in 1988.
Since my sister used to work for Donna Karan I own a lot of clothes from the label. Sigh…I used to love getting the 50% discounts!
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