Word: karan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...
...life, there are more female moguls than ever, and women-owned businesses are growing at a rate of 11% a year, double the growth rate of all business. In the U.S., women account for or influence 80% of buying decisions. Of course, talent is not a gender issue, as Karan points out, in spite of so much of the innovation in fashion in the past century having come from women. So why is it that when you look at those ubiquitous lists of most recognized global brands, the names at the top inevitably are those...
...mental health are well understood in India, and we have departments of psychology in numerous institutions around the nation. Indian society also has a built-in support system whereby gurus and spiritual teachers help disturbed people, whereas in the West this function has been taken over exclusively by psychiatrists. Karan Singh Member of Parliament New Delhi...