Donna Karan
Donna Karan , also known under the alias DK, is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
Karan was born Donna Ivy Faske to mother Helen and father Gabby Faske in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Borough of Queens, New York City. The family is Jewish. Karans mother had been a model and had also worked in designer Chester Weinbergs showroom. Her father was a tailor and haberdasher who died when Donna was three years old. Karan and her older sister Gail were raised by their mother in Woodmere, in the Five Towns region of Nassau County, New York. She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966, and then went to the Parsons School of Design.
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