It's been 25 years since Donna Karan, 61, launched her 7 Easy Pieces collection that changed the way we dress today. She came up Medium Elsa Peretti Open Heart pendant the concept of wearing just seven piecesa bodysuit, pant, coat, skirt, sweater, a leather item and an evening piece- 24/7 during her tenure at Anne Klein, a position that started as a summer job for the Small Elsa Peretti Open Heart pendant design student in the early 70s. Just three years later, she landed the top job in partnership with Louis Dell'Olio when Klein died prepping a prefall collection.
Karan, nine months pregnant at the time, famously delivered the collection and her first baby in the same week. Since launching her Elsa Peretti Teardrop pendant label in 1984, she has become the queen of American fashion, building an empire on draped black Elsa Peretti Round pendant and cashmere. Not one to rest on her success, Karan's Fall '10 collection- a study of draped and sculpted silhouettes- was one of her best yet.
A devoted practitioner of yoga since she was 18, Karan has combined her spiritual sensibility with her signature wearable practicality- a look that attracts ?-list fans from Barbra Streisand to Penelope Cruz. When not traveling the globe with pal Elsa Peretti Crucifix pendant Klein, this grandmother of seven is organizing Seventh on Sale (for AIDS awareness and education) and Super Saturday (to raise money for Ovarian Cancer research). Wool top and viscose-blend skirt, Donna Karan New York. Bracelet, Robert Lee Morris.
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