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Though he won last year's Menswear Designer of the Year Award, no one mistakes him for a designer in the usual sense. He hires others for that chore and concentrates on image making--not for him the training rigors of the Parsons School (as Donna Karan endured) or the Fashion Institute (Calvin Klein). As a young retailer Hilfiger dreamed of founding an empire like Ralph Lauren's, and he adapted Lauren's strategy of selling a dream instead of a line of clothes. If Lauren offers the charmed world of Scott Fitzgerald to the masses, Hilfiger is selling...
Fashion-design house Donna Karan International, considered the pick of the recent litter, dropped a stitch or two since its IPO rose from $24 to $28 at its June debut. The stock ended last week...
...hates the term guru, yet that is the term applied to him by Demi Moore, who (along with Naomi Judd and George Harrison) sits on the board of advisers for his soon-to-open healing center in La Jolla, California. Other devotees include Michael Jackson, Donna Karan and Michael Milken. Chopra remains unvalidated by the gatekeepers of higher culture: Bill Moyers has yet to interview him. Nevertheless, PBS stations have not seen fit to abjure the millions they make by playing Chopra's vastly popular lecture tapes during their subscription drives. Dozens of CEOs swear by him publicly...
...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...
...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...