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Article: DONNA AND BEHNAZ; DONNA KARAN AND BEHNAZ SARAFPOUR BOND OVER BOYS, BODS, AND THE FASHION BIZ.(Parsons School of Design alumni)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- June 2, 2003
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Women's wear designer of the year nominee Donna Karan, a past women's wear winner, met two-time Perry Ellis nominee Behnaz Sarafpour for the first time at the W Hotel during a reunion of Parsons School of Design alumni. Here's how their conversation went:
BS: You've won the designer of the year before. Did you ever go up for the Perry Ellis Award?
DK: Ah, in my day, back in the Coty Awards, before you were born, and I lost. I don't remember the ones that I won, but I do remember the ones that I lost. Louis [Dell' Olio] and I were a sure win (for Anne Klein), I mean it was definitively a sure win. But my mother didn't want to come, because she said she ...