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...answered the sartorial prayers of American women by creating exactly what she knew they needed. In 1955, she told TIME, "I've always designed things I needed myself. It just turns out that other people need them too." Like the creations of many female designers--Miuccia Prada, Donna Karan, Vera Wang--McCardell's designs were a complete expression of herself...
...believe me, that's the least of what I am. I am a businessperson; I work in an office with a management team; I work on both the business side and the creative side. If you look sad and scared, then people are not interested anymore. Between me, Donna Karan and Miuccia Prada, I think I'm the only one who dresses like that...
Male designers are well known for their visions of female sexuality and glamour, but for decades the behind-the-seams story of fashion has been the influence of women not as models, but as makers and marketers of clothes. Designers like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Donna Karan and Jil Sander conjured entire fashion universes and great fortunes with ideas that revolutionized the way women dressed. Madeleine Vionnet reshaped the silhouette with her bias cut one seam coiling around the body and enhanced 1930s screen stars' sex appeal. Claire McCardell's Popover dress answered the sartorial prayers...
...wanted to do. "I always dreamed about getting into the fashion industry," she says. "So I graduated on a Friday, and on Saturday I was on a plane to New York." With similar speed and purpose, Ahrendts, 43, has ascended fashion's corporate ranks, serving as president of the Donna Karan Collection, vice president of Henri Bendel and currently as an executive vice president at Liz Claiborne...
...late 1990s, more than a few critics suggested that Donna Karan had lost her way. A dozen years after she launched her own label to great acclaim, winning the hearts of working women with her streamlined, sexy suits, there was a sense that the native of New York's Long Island had become sidetracked by her interest in yoga and spiritual pursuits, turning out fluttery clothes more appropriate for meditating in Bali than mediating in the boardroom...