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...Donna Karan has built an empire on style, savvy and drive...
Over the years, Karan has consistently demonstrated a golden commercial touch, but not by taking the predictable approach or by heeding conventional wisdom. As Vogue's Wintour says, "Donna quite enjoys breaking the rules." Before Karan, for example, most designers' second collections were watered- down versions of their high-priced lines. Karan did something entirely different when she opened her second line, DKNY, in 1989. She offered stylish, casual and affordable clothes without cannibalizing her main collection. Under the direction of Karan's advertising guru, Peter Arnell of the Arnell/Bickford agency, the new line was shrewdly marketed with a portfolio...
...young women who work for Karan feel the same way, much as the young Donna felt about Anne Klein. Karan attracts talented people who are famously loyal and willing to put up with her constant demands. The designer has been known to give employees a ride home in her limo just to keep a conversation going. "Donna draws you in. She's this irresistible force," says Beth - Wohlgelernter, who worked as her executive assistant for six years. The staff, in fact, amounts to something of a Karan cult. Says Jane Chung, the senior vice president for design at DKNY...
...different his mood on Friday, when he was surrounded by appointees whom he genuinely enjoys and who fit his vow of "a new generation of leaders." Harvard political economist Robert Reich, a Rhodes scholar with Clinton, will be Secretary of Labor. Health and Human Services went to Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and a friend of Hillary Clinton's. Another woman becomes chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a Berkeley economist. And Carol Browner, a former aide to Al Gore, will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Saturday was another day for allies...
...Secretary of State. Sure, there have been a few wrong calls -- Carol Browner, and not former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, was named to head the Environmental Protection Agency. There were also surprises -- almost no one predicted that Robert Reich would end up as Secretary of Labor, and few slated Donna Shalala for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Democratic national chairman Ronald Brown seemed headed for the United Nations, not Commerce. Like Brown, both Reich and Shalala were leaked as likely prospects for top jobs...