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...designers, like businessmen everywhere, tend to fall all over a winning formula, and store racks are groaning with DKNY wannabes. "I call our rivals the Pac-Men," says DKNY's president, Denise Seegal. "They're all coming after us." This fall saw the launch of Company, a division of Ellen Tracy, whose best sellers include $145 velour tunics and $255 stirrup pants, and of Anne Klein's A Line, which sold a passel of Lycra-blend stretch pants ($215) and double-breasted blazers...
...early 1980s with the launch of the Anne Klein II line, designed by a young Donna Karan and Louis Dell'Olio. Anne Klein II, which found its niche selling career clothes just as professional women were entering the work force in large numbers, shared the spotlight with Ellen Tracy, an established line that was spruced up by designer Linda Allard...
...market hummed along at moderate speed until early 1989, when Donna Karan rewrote the rules by tapping into a powerful consumer demand that others had somehow failed to satisfy. DKNY offered stylish, sporty clothes at decent (though hardly bargain-basement) prices. It is now running neck and neck with Ellen Tracy, though DKNY is sold in 450 stores in the U.S., compared with 1,000 for Tracy. And DKNY has probably cut into the market share of Anne Klein II, whose sales have slipped from $130 million in 1989 to an estimated $110 million this year...
General Manager: Ellen F. Dealy...
General Manager: Ellen F. Dealy...