The US designer is leaving the helm of the fashion house she launched in the mid-1980s. From designing clothes for real women to championing a female president, this is why she will be missed
What made Donna Karan truly unique was that she represented women not in the way male designers tend to imagine them – decorative creatures to be dressed up like paper dolls, for Country Club tennis tournaments and formal dinners – but as working women who wanted to look chic and feel comfortable in clothes that would take them from subway to office, taxi to restaurant.
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