Diana Lada is the permanent collection, documentation manager for the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She received an M.A. in Visual Culture with an emphasis on modern design history from New York University in 1999. She is a member of the Costume Society of America and was co-curator of Nude Up, an exhibition on fashion and the body at New York’s Rosenthal Gallery. She is the author of a series of essays about fashion theory and criticism.
Mollie Parnis’s wit and fashion-savvy made her clothing designs a must during her tenure as a fashion legend. Parnis was equally famed for her New York salons that welcomed literary and political giants and for her fashion designs that adorned first ladies.
Donna Karan started her career as an intern for the renowned designer Anne Klein and became the design director for Klein’s label in 1974. She quickly built a reputation for designing clothes for a range of body types. She has two of her own brands, which have become household names around the world, and her designs have regularly won awards.
