DKNY (Donna Karan New York) is a label of fashion designer Donna Karan. It is also the name of a clothing store in New York City featuring Donna Karan's associated line.

History

DKNY was founded in 1989 in New York by Donna Karan inspired by her daughter, Gabby, as a younger, cheaper version line compared to her existing Donna Karan New York label. DKNY became a publicly-traded venture 1996, and in 2001, was purchased by French corporation Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey.

Stores

Stores opened in London in 1997 and New York City in 1999. The DKNY headquarters is located at 550 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York. There are currently seventy Donna Karan collection and DKNY stores globally, including twenty stores in China including Hong Kong and Shanghai, two stores in Canada including Vancouver, B.C. and Montreal, four in Dubai. DKNY has also opened some stores in Wales. Since 2005, Donna Karan has offered online shopping of its DKNY and associated lines at the label's web site. Products range from DKNY and DKNY Jeans womenswear, accessories, underwear, shoes, baby clothing, the PURE collection to DKNY menswear. The latter was available up until the spring 2007 season. Since then only the DKNY Jeans label, underwear, eyewear and watches have been offered online for men.

Current Labels

right|thumb|DKNY glasses with a black outer frame and blue inside the frame.Many labels and brands have branched off of the original DKNY brand/label including DKNY Jeans, pure, DKNY Active, DKNY Underwear, DKNY Juniors, DKNY Kids, and DKNY Baby. After eight years of creating only women’s apparel, Karan generated a menswear collection called DKNY Men in 1992. This new label consists of tailored suits, dress wear, formalwear, casual wear, sportswear, and shoes. The DKNY beauty collection was also created in 1992. In 2001, the DKNY Home collection, which includes traditional luxury bedding and accessories, and DKNY LIFE, which has more contemporary and fashion-forward bedding, were introduced.

References

External links

DKNY Official Site

Donna Karan Original Site

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name	Ashley Greene
birth name	Ashley Michele Greene
birth date	February 21, 1987
birth place	Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
occupation	Actress, model
years active	2005–present
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Ashley Michele Greene (born February 21, 1987) is an American actress and model, best known for playing Alice Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' novels.

Personal life

Greene was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and is the daughter of Michele (née Tatum), who works in insurance, and Joe Greene, a U.S. Marine who now owns his own concrete business. She grew up in Middleburg and Jacksonville, and went to University Christian School before transferring to Wolfson High School when she was in tenth grade. She moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career. Greene has an older brother named Joe, who still resides in Jacksonville with their parents.

Greene is good friends with her ''Twilight'' co-stars, particularly Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone whom she knew before filming of the series began. She dated singer Joe Jonas. The two broke up in March 2011. Greene has stated the she grew up watching football and is a Florida Gators fan. She was also seen attending a Green Bay Packers game against the New York Giants with Jonas and Jessica Szohr at Lambeau Field in 2010.

Career

She initially planned to become a model, but was told that she was not tall enough at 5'5" to be a runway model and should instead focus on commercials. After taking commercial and acting classes, she fell in love with acting and realized that she preferred it over modeling. Greene graduated from high school early and moved to L.A. to pursue an acting career. Since then, she has appeared as a guest on many popular television programs, such as ''Punk'd'' and ''Crossing Jordan''.

Greene's big break came in 2008 when she was cast as Alice Cullen in ''Twilight'', a film based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. She reprised her role as Alice in the 2009 sequel to ''Twilight'', ''The Twilight Saga: New Moon'', 2010's ''The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'', and will reprise the role again in 2011, in ''The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2''.

Greene portrayed Michelle Burkham in the drama film ''Skateland'', which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

She reunited with her ''Twilight'' co-star Kellan Lutz in the movie ''Warrior'' and also stars in thriller film, ''Summer's Blood'', as well as the Dark Castle Entertainment production ''The Apparition'', which began filming on February 1, 2010.

Appearing nude in a bodypainted bikini, Greene posed for SoBe advertisements that ran in the 2010 issue of the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition''. ''People Magazine'' named Greene as one of the "World's Most Beautiful Women of 2010". She received "The Style Icon Award" at Hollywood Life’s Young Hollywood Awards this year. Greene was also presented an award from the PETA foundation for representing Avon and their no testing on animals policy.

Greene presented an award at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2010.

Filmography

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
2005	''Punk'd''	Girlfriend	1 episode
	''Crossing Jordan''	Ann Rappaport	1 episode
''MADtv''	Amber	1 episode
	Renata	7 episodes
2007	''King of California''	McDonald's Customer
		Natalie Faber	1 episode
	Kim #4	Straight-to-DVD
		Teen Choice Award for Movie Fresh Face FemaleNominated–Scream Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated–Scream Award for Best Ensemble Cast
		Missy
''Summer's Blood''	Summer Matthews	Straight-to-DVDOriginally titled ''Summer's Blood''
''''		Teen Choice Awards
	''[[Skateland''	Michelle Burkham	Premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival
	Rhonda	Post-production
''A Warrior's Heart''	Brooklyn	Post-production
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	''LOL: Laughing Out Loud''	Ashley	Post-production
''''	Kelly	Post-production
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		Post-production
''Butter''	Kaitlen Pickler	Filming
''The Boom Boom Room''	Adeline Winter	Filming

References

External links

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Name	Candy Apples
Birth place	Inglewood, California
Height
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Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blonde
Ethnicity	Caucasian
Alias	Angelique, Candee Apples
Films	255 (per IAFD) }}

Candy Apples (born in Inglewood, California, USA) is the stage name of a pornographic actress.

In October 1999, Apples became the world gangbang record holder, with 742 "instances of sex", including oral sex and strap-on use. She was aiming for over 2,000, but the gangbang was eventually halted by a police raid.

Awards

2001 AVN Award nominee – Best Solo Sex Scene – ''Candy Apples vs. King Dong'' 2001 AVN Award nominee – Best All-Girl Sex Scene – ''Violation of Bridgette Kerkove'' (Shared with Bridgette Kerkove, Coral Sands, Daisy Chain, Gwen Summers, Layla Jade and Vivi Anne

References

External links

Candy Apples Gangbang 2,000 halted by police presence – AINews.com

Candy Apples Gangbang – LukeIsBack.com

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Name	Donna Karan
Nationality	American
Birth date	October 02, 1948
Birth place	Forest Hills, New York
Education	Hewlett High School The New School (Parsons division)
Label name	Donna Karan
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Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the ''Donna Karan New York'' and ''DKNY'' clothing labels.

Early life

Karan was born Donna Ivy Faske in Forest Hills, Queens, USA. She grew up in Woodmere, Long Island, New York, with her stepfather, a tailor, and her mother, a model. Karan started selling clothing on Cedarhurst, New York's Central Avenue at age 14.

She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966, and then went to the Parsons School of Design (later known as Parsons the New School for Design after it became a division of The New School), for two years. She left to work for Anne Klein.

Career

After leaving college, Karan worked for Anne Klein, eventually becoming head of the Anne Klein design-team, where she remained until 1985, when she launched her eponymous Donna Karan label.

Donna Karan International

Karan began her career as an assistant designer with Anne Klein in the late 1960s, where she was eventually promoted to associate designer in 1971. When Anne Klein herself died in 1974, Takihyo Corporation of Japan became the new owner and Karan, together with her former classmate and friend Louis Dell'Ollio, became head designer of the house. In 1984, Karan left Anne Klein and, together with her then husband Stephan Weiss and Takihyo Corporation, started her own business "to design modern clothes for modern people". She showed her first women's clothing collection in 1985.

Karan became well-known for her 'Essentials' line, initially offering seven easy pieces which could all be mixed and matched, and created a fully integrated wardrobe. Karan always insisted that she would only design clothes, like jersey dresses and opaque Lycra tights, that she would also wear herself. She was once described in the early 1990s by the ''New York Times'' as “[Ed Koch] in a stretchy black dress�.

In 1988, Karan, nicknamed ''The Queen Of Seventh Avenue'' by the time, extended her women's 'Donna Karan New York' line by a less expensive one for younger women, called DKNY. Two years later, she created DKNY Jeans, a denim-inspired collection. DKNY for men was launched in 1992, one year after the 'Signature' line for men had been presented. In its heyday in the 1990s, the Donna Karan portfolio, for men and women, consisted of the top-of-the-line DKNY collection (black label, couture collection, partly hand-made, limited distribution) and its variation, the 'Donna Karan Signature' collection (golden label, designer sportswear, wider distribution), the DKNY lifestyle diffusion line, and the lower-priced DKNY Jeans (and DKNY Active) lines. The portfolio was later complemented by a children's collection, beauty products, accessories and furniture. Sales rose up to $510.1 million in 1995 from $96.6 in 1991. More than half of the sales were attributed to the DKNY lines, couture contributed 15% and about 30% of the sales were generated by men’s clothing, accessories, cosmetics and other products. Almost a third of the sales were made in exports.

Donna Karan, Inc. and LVMH

In 1997, Donna Karan quit as CEO of the company, but continues to act as chairwoman and designer in charge of the Donna Karan line. From 2002 on, most of the collection was designed by Peter Speliopoulos, a former Cerruti designer, with Karan contributing little subtleties or even entire new creations. The DKNY line is entirely designed by Jane Chung, who has been with Donna Karan since Karan's days with Anne Klein.

In November 2000, the LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton) fashion giant completed the acquisition of both Gabrielle Studio, a company that owned the Donna Karan brand and was named after Karan's daughter, and Donna Karan International Inc. for about $400 million and $240 million, respectively. LVMH subsequently re-arranged the Donna Karan portfolio: 'Donna Karan New York' for men was discontinued, as well as the 'Signature' lines for men and women.

In August 2008, Donna Karan relaunched her discontinued fragrance lines from the 1990s. These include DK Fuel for Men, Signature, Chaos, and Black Cashmere. They are available exclusively in the United States at Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Manhattan and at Harrod's, Knightsbridge, London.

Donna Karan stores

The first Donna Karan Signature store was opened in London in 1996 at 27 New Bond Street The first DKNY flagship store opened in 1999 at Madison Avenue and 60th in New York. The Donna Karan store in Berlin was closed in December 2001. The DKNY label has its own stores, located predominantly in retail shopping malls. Since October 2006, Mark Weber is CEO of Donna Karan International.

Since 2005, Karan has offered online shopping of its DKNY and associated lines at the label's web site.

The company maintains design studios, showrooms and offices at 550 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan) (headquarters) and 240 W. 40th St. in New York City.

PETA protests

In 2008, the animal rights group PETA initiated a campaign against Donna Karan for her use of fur in products and her contracted Fur Farmers' alleged inhumane treatment of the animals.

On May 17, 2008, protesters, who were eventually arrested, crouched in the yoga ‘rabbit pose’ and covered themselves with fake blood while Karan spoke at the Yoga Journal Boston Conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. On September 7, 2008, PETA protesters picketed a Boston fashion show by waving signs reading: "Donna: Dump Fur." On December 4, 2008, PETA members wearing Grim Reaper costumes and "bloody" fur coats protested at Karan's boutique in Boston. On December 22, Donna Karan announced that her fall 2009 lines would be fur-free and stated that she had "no plans" to use fur in the future. A personal appeal from Tim Gunn, the chief creative officer for Liz Claiborne and announcer in a PETA video, is said to have influenced the decision after PETA's two year campaign against her and Giorgio Armani.

However, by the Fall of 2010, Karan's fall collection once again included fur items, including jackets and vests. In response to this, PETA held a demonstration on October 19, 2010 near a Democratic fundraiser in Donna Karan’s penthouse. At the event, which was organized by Karan and first lady Michelle Obama, the PETA protestors held placards that called Karan, "Bunny Butcher." PETA protests against Karan because they allege that the fur industry kills 50 million animals, many of which are skinned alive.

On November 29, 2010, 16 different PETA profiles posted a vertical message on Karan's Facebook page that read "DK BUNNY BUTCHER." Each profile picture represented a letter in the message. "Bunny Butcher" is the nickname given to Karan by the organization for using rabbit fur in her collections.

Awards

Karan won the Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award in 1977 and once again in 1982 (together with Louis Dell’Ollio for Anne Klein).

She was inducted into the Coty Hall Of Fame in 1984. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) named her Menswear Designer of the Year 1992 and Womenswear Designer of the Year 1990 and 1996. She was a nominee for the latter again in 2003 and was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the CFDA in 2004. She won special CFDA awards in 1985, 1986 and 1987.

Personal life

She married Mark Karan in the early 1970s, had a daughter, Gabrielle, and divorced in 1978. In 1983, she married artist Stephen Weiss, who would later become co-CEO of the Donna Karan company. Weiss died of lung cancer in 2001.

Charity work

Karan is the founder of many charities including, the Urban Zen initiative, which she founded with designer Sonja Nuttall.. On March 14 and 15 2008, Karan organized a large sale of her personal belongings and vintage company samples at her late husband's studio to benefit the cause. In October 2008, a foundation run by Karan donated $850,000 to New York's Beth Israel Medical Center. The grant will be used for testing whether yoga, meditation and aromatherapy can enhance the traditional cancer treatments of chemotherapy and radiation.

References

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