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...SPRAY THE MODELS! PATTI, COULD you get me some perfume?" Straight pins bristling from her mouth, safety pins stuck on the black cashmere sweater wrapped around her waist, designer Donna Karan is stalking the runway where she is about to present her spring collection to the fashion flock. She was up for most of the night, coping with the usual crises. The oversize linen hats, for instance. A nice theatrical touch, but they didn't fit through the entrance to the runway. (The models learned to take them off and put them back on, fast.) Then there was the jewelry...
...fashion faithful, the quintessential stressed-out New York City career woman-cum-celebrity. She is the only female interloper in the all-boys club of leading U.S. designers, whose longtime members are Ralph, Calvin, Bill, Geoffrey and Oscar. The future of American retailing, though, may belong to Donna...
...said she had to walk from the Science Center to Cabot House, while Donna S. Rabin '93 said she had to call a cab to get from Cabot House to Leverett House...
Clinton also named University of Wisconsin Chancellor Donna Shalala as secretary of Health and Human Services, Florida environmental official Carol Browner to head the Environmental protection Agency, and Berkeley economist Laura D' Andrea Tyson to chair the Council of Economic Advisers...
Barnes is frank about the brutal realities of living as a novelist in England. "It is difficult to make a living as a novelist in Britain, until one is about forty. The Donna Tartt scenario would be impossible in Britain. The ascent there is slower than it is here in America where a novelist, having achieved some measure of success changes his hair, his house, his wife, his entire life while in Britain, a successful novelist considers taking his publicist to lunch." He admires the work of Cheever and Updike but resolutely adheres to his ambitious (if brashly stated) mission...