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Video: DKNY goes big
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If there’s been one show, so far, that’s brought out the lust factor of the assembled fashion flock, it may well be DKNY.
With frosty temps and slushy streets, nothing seemed more appealing than the brand’s oversized bomber coat, a cushy elongated job of neoprene, that hit below the knee, and looked as warm as all get-out. Seatmates on both sides at the show whispered, “I want that.”
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Read more »DKNY: Street chic
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An enormous photograph of a city street was the backdrop for the spunky, citified runway romp at DKNY. Pre-show, Donna Karan said, “It’s 100 percent New York and 100 percent DKNY. I would wear everything in this collection.” And so would many.
The color scape here was classic Donna: black, white, silver and a blaring pop of taxi yellow. For spring, loads of essential wardrobe pieces, such...
Read more »DKNY: Smart, citified and sexy
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The runway at DKNY’s downtown Sunday show was screened with skyscrapers and, appropriately, the collection was lean and distinctly urban, but like a city sidewalk, Donna Karan allowed some cracks in the veneer – it was feminine and subtly flirtatious, too.
Called in program notes, a “Poetic Rebellion,” and described as "sweet and strong, pretty and tough, smart and street,"...
Read more »Weebles wobble . . . and so do male models
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Just a few hours into the first day of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and we already have a casualty — and no, it’s not a Marchesa model (they usually drop like flies — at least one per show — perched on their ridiculously high heels).
Nope, this time it was a dude! The Centurion-style soldiers at the DKNY Men's presentation last night on Fashion Week Eve stood rigidly at attention — and this...
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