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...DONNA KARAN Gets slammed by fashion press and colleague Calvin Klein for abandoning traditional venue...
...computers at home but come in for the advanced technologies available at his eatery. "Everyone has heard of CD-ROMs, but only about 10% of the country actually has a CD-ROM drive of their own," he says. Cybercafes have proved to be attractive marketing venues as well. Donna Karan advertised a new men's fragrance on a screensaver device that debuted at New York City's @ Cafe; New Balance and Microsoft are among other companies that have feted new products at techno-halls across the country...
THIS PAST WEEK has seen a profusion of fashion-related events heralding the coming of the summer months. The Boston Chapter of AmFAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research) and Louis, Boston hosted a runway show last Thursday, featuring the clothing lines of Romeo Gigli, Donna Karan, Zegna, Vestimenta, Jill Sander, Calvin Klein and Prada. With more than 250 guests in attendance, all seated around a silver-lined cat-walk lit by matte-black halogen spot lights, the event was an exciting, if somewhat overly-choreographed, into to this season's hippest wear...
...designers sat out the carnival while making fortunes out of basic, neutral clothes. They include Giorgio Armani, who started the last real revolution in fashion with his destructured jackets, and his colonists-Calvin Klein, Jil Sander and Donna Karan, among others. Now the fashionable cycle has restarted. Versace saw it coming. "I dressed Claudia Schiffer and Madonna like my mother used to dress," he says. "You see, women are changing again. They don't want to look androgynous anymore...
...would think the fashion world had left its flamboyant excesses behind. Think again. This is an industry that seems to thrive on crises. Drama counts. For every sublime Miyake, there is always someone out there on a toot. Even designers who usually make well-cut, wearable clothes, like Donna Karan, get the fever. In her DKNY show, the city girl went western, featuring dubious slinky pants with a phony chaps look, crinoline-shaped frontier skirts and hats that were at least seven gallons. In Paris, Jean-Paul Gaultier, perennial idol of the fashion press, indulged in one of his toughest...