Donna Karan is such a great designer. I love her fashion!
Weinberg's showroom. Her father was a tailor and haberdasher who died when Donna was three years old. Karan and her older sister Gail were raised by their mother in Woodmere, in the Five Towns region of Nassau County, New York. Donna took pleasure in softball, volleyball, and basketball, cut classes in high school, and passed much of her time in the art department. She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966, and then went to the Parsons School of Design.
Career.
After leaving college
Marc Jacobs
- Elois Jenssen, costume designer for "I Love Lucy"
- Kevin Johnn, fashion designer; appeared on "Project Runway"
- Anand Jon, fashion designer; convicted serial rapist
- Donna Karan, creator of the DKNY label
- Derek Lam
- Jillian Lewis, appeared on "Project Runway"
- Claire McCardell
- Raul Melgoza, fashion designer, former CE at LUCA LUCA
- Isaac Mizrahi, four-time CDFA award winner
- Sarah Phillips
- Patrick