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...major designers who have not been influenced by the kind of American style Calvin epitomizes," notes Valerie Steele, a professor at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology, Klein's alma mater. Indeed, his spare-chic ethos is reflected in the work of everyone from superstars like Donna Karan, Michael Kors and Miuccia Prada to up-and-comers like handbag designer Kate Spade. More significantly, it is the bedrock of the no-fuss aesthetic peddled by the Gap, J. Crew and Banana Republic, increasingly the purveyors of the American uniform...
Michael Jordan, busy with work, passed the ball to Nike, which adamantly defended its labor record overseas while pointing out the complexities and hypocrisies in the whole debate. "We've taken a leadership role in trying to promote trade and act in an ethical way," says Nike spokesperson Donna Gibbs. "Often the human-rights groups and Made in the U.S.A. have their own agendas. The reality is, we live in a global economy." A global company like Nike, she says, with long-term partnerships overseas, can use its might to fight abuses...
...appearance at Oxford, Simpson dressed in a black Donna Karan jacket, a white shirt, a gray sweater vest and a gray-and-black-striped Armani tie--creating a faux morning-coat effect that made him look like an extra from Four Weddings and a Funeral. After receiving a warm round of applause from the 1,000 students crammed together on the brown leather benches of the elegant 1871 Union Debating Chamber, Simpson tried a few quips, only to be interrupted by Fiona Maazel, an American at Oxford for her junior year abroad. "You can make your jokes, but this...
...Renshaw, the British director of The King and I, had a daring idea: not to revamp the story of Anna Leonowens, an English governess who waged a war of wills with the King of Siam, but to underline the convulsive drama at the story's core. As played by Donna Murphy (steely presence, gorgeous voice) and Lou Diamond Phillips (who eventually shrugs off the shroud of Yul Brynner), Anna and the King are each emotionally isolated--she as a widow and a foreigner, he as a man bred to a belief in his own infallibility. When they finally, lightly touch...
...DONNA KARAN Gets slammed by fashion press and colleague Calvin Klein for abandoning traditional venue...