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B2G

(9,766 posts)
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 10:40 AM Oct 2017

Donna Karan, are you fucking kidding me??

Donna Karan Wonders if Women Are Dressing for ‘Trouble’
By VALERIYA SAFRONOVAOCT. 10, 2017

The designer Donna Karan has questioned whether women around the world are asking for “trouble” because of how they dress.

“How do we present ourselves as women?” Ms. Karan said on the red carpet at the CineFashion Film Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening. “What are we asking? Are we asking for it? By presenting all the sensuality and all the sexuality? What are we throwing out to our children today? About how to dance, how to perform and what to wear? How much should they show?”

The comments came after the designer was asked about a New York Times investigation that found that the film producer Harvey Weinstein had been accused of sexually harassing employees and actresses for decades. Several powerful figures in the film industry who have worked with Mr. Weinstein, including Glenn Close, Kate Winslet and Judi Dench, condemned the Hollywood producer on Monday. He was fired by the Weinstein Company, the film production company he co-founded, on Sunday.

“I don’t think it’s only Harvey Weinstein. I don’t think we’re only looking at him,” Ms. Karan said. “I think we’re looking at a world much deeper than him. I think he’s being looked at now as a symbol.”

In the interview, she restated that thought: “It’s not Harvey Weinstein, you look at everything all over the world today, you know, and how women are dressing and what they’re asking by just presenting themselves the way they do. What are they asking for? Trouble.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/fashion/harvey-weinstein-donna-karan.html

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Donna Karan, are you fucking kidding me?? (Original Post) B2G Oct 2017 OP
She Have A New Line of Modest Outerware She's Promoting? ProfessorGAC Oct 2017 #1
Already forced to apologize KentuckyWoman Oct 2017 #2
There is a time and place for a retired fashion designer to bring up the fact that elehhhhna Oct 2017 #3
More proof wryter2000 Oct 2017 #4
Have a lot of men made comments on the Weinstein issue? DURHAM D Oct 2017 #6
I was thinking in general wryter2000 Oct 2017 #7
Are we going to start designing Saudi fashions now, Donna? Aristus Oct 2017 #5
I believe Donna Karan is addressing... IthinkThereforeIAM Oct 2017 #8
It's not just the clothing. Aristus Oct 2017 #10
When are we going to design men who dont act like complete assholes? Guilded Lilly Oct 2017 #9
According to Repubs, that's not a bug...it's a design feature. Wounded Bear Oct 2017 #11
Hah! Guilded Lilly Oct 2017 #12
Once people began whining about female marathon runners LanternWaste Oct 2017 #13

ProfessorGAC

(65,056 posts)
1. She Have A New Line of Modest Outerware She's Promoting?
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 10:42 AM
Oct 2017

Seems a bit odd for a fashion designer to say this.

 

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)
3. There is a time and place for a retired fashion designer to bring up the fact that
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 10:46 AM
Oct 2017

Couture is now showing women with their nipples and asses completely exposed.

This ain't it

A lot of women think that some men aren't sleazy because they didn't get hit on themselves. Donna happens to be way past Harvey's favorite age range, never depended on him for her professional success, and is extremely wealthy thus removing any power differential . The power differential is what allowed him to be such a pig . Donna is stupid. Don't be Donna.

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
7. I was thinking in general
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 10:57 AM
Oct 2017

I've been off DU for several days. Out of town.

I've read plenty of "she knew what she was asking for" comments from women here.

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,076 posts)
8. I believe Donna Karan is addressing...
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 11:08 AM
Oct 2017

... the, "Sex in the City", urban skank (dress like you are ready for a nooner in a back alley) issue. Sorry, it is a free country, so people can dress to fit the image they are trying to make upon people. Being button down and polished has it's virtues.

Now flame away!
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
13. Once people began whining about female marathon runners
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 11:35 AM
Oct 2017

Once people began whining about a female marathon runner bleeding onto the street due simply to her period, I realized so many half-wits and simpletons are simply stupid as it applies to responsibility, respect and consequence. This story merely confirms it.

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