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DKNY is a New York City–based American fashion house for men and women, founded in 1984 by Donna Karan. [1] The company specializes in a wide range of fashion products, including clothing, footwear, accessories and fragrances.
An ensemble Karan designed in 1985-86 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit In America: A Lexicon of Fashion. After leaving college, Karan worked for Anne Klein, [10] eventually becoming head of the Anne Klein design-team, where she remained until 1984, when she launched her Donna Karan label. Sasha Pivovarova in DKNY by Donna Karan
The following year it acquired footwear brand G.H. Bass. [37] In 2015, G-III entered into a joint venture with another luxury brand, Karl Lagerfeld, to create and launch the Karl Lagerfeld Paris label in North America. [38] The company acquired Donna Karan International, the parent company of Donna Karan and DKNY, in 2016. [39]
Year Company Location Field Reference Notes 1613 Shirley Plantation: Charles City County, Virginia: Farm [1] [2] [3] 1623 Avedis Zildjian Company: Norwell, Massachusetts: Music Company Founded in Istanbul, moved to the U.S. in 1929. 1632-33 Tuttle's Red Barn: Dover, New Hampshire: Farm [1] [4] [5] [6] 1639 Field View Farm: Orange, Connecticut ...
The company began as two separate leather apparel manufacturer-retailers: Berman Buckskin, founded in 1899, as Berman Brothers Fur, Wool and Hides founded by David, Ephraim and Alexander Berman, [3] and after World War II, reinvented as a fringed buckskin shirt and jacket retailer, [4] and Wilsons House of Suede, founded in late 1950 in Beverly Hills California by Jerry Wilson and known for ...
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before the Civil War, and with all the ups and downs of the last 160+ years, the brand still lives on today.
Kate Spade & Company, initially known as Liz Claiborne Inc. (founded in 1976 in Manhattan), and then as Fifth & Pacific Companies, Inc. (from 2012 to 2014), is a fashion company that designs and markets a range of women's and men's apparel, accessories and fragrance products under the Kate Spade New York and Jack Spade labels.
When Linda Wachner forcibly took over the reins of Warnaco, she reduced the company's debt by 35% within four years. [68] After the mid-1990s acquisition spree, Wachner led the clothing powerhouse once again to the brink of collapse. It was under her management that in 1995 Warnaco failed to make the Fortune 500 for the first time in nearly 30 ...