Biography of donna fendi

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▸DONNA KARAN Story

Karan was born Donna Ivy Faske to mother Helen ("Queenie") and father Gabby Faske in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Borough of Queens, New York City.

Her family fryst vatten Jewish.Karan's mother had been a model and had also worked in designer Chester Weinberg's showroom. Her father was a tailor and hattmakare who died when Donna was three years old. Karan and her older sister Gail were raised by their mother in Woodmere, in the fem Towns distrikt of Nassau County, New York.

Donna took pleasure in softball, volleyball, and basketball, cut classes in high school, and passed much of her time in the art department. She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966, and then went to the Parsons School of Design...

In 2001 DKNY was acquired bygd the French LVMH Group (Louis Vuitton, Moët & Hennessy).

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Fendi

Fendi is a synonym of fur and revolution, two apparently contradictory concepts. Having accepted the idea of mass consumption, Fendi attempted to provide furs for women of every social position, or nearly so, demystifying the luxury connotations that have always characterized this type of garment.

The story begins at the corner of the Piazza Venezia in Rome in 1925, where there was a small Fendi boutique and, next door to it, a fur and leather workshop, owned by Edoardo and Adele Fendi. By the 1930s they had expanded the business considerably. But the true protagonists of Fendi's success are their daughters—Paola (b. 1931), Anna (b. 1933), Franca (b. 1935), Carla (b. 1937), and Alda (b. 1940)—who made the Fendi label famous throughout the world. All five daughters began working in the family business at an early age—between fifteen and eighteen—assuming different responsibilities as required. In 1964 they opened the office on the via Borgognona in Rome, with a large picture

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Donna Karan: Selling Your Name

It may be intuitive for a fashion designer to use his or her own name as the name for their clothing label - the designs are their personal works of art and doing so is common industry practice. However, doing so may pose a huge legal problem when and if a designer decides to sell his or her label to another entity.

One example of how using one's name can backfire is a situation involving fashion designer Joseph Abboud. In 2000 Joseph Abboud entered into a purchase and sale agreement with JA Apparel in which for $65.5 million Mr. Abboud was to "sell, covey, transfer, assign and deliver . . . all of [his] right, title and interest in and to" the intellectual property of his name. Despite this agreement, however, Mr. Abboud insisted on using his name in connection with a new clothing line he was personally developing