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Article: BUCHMAN'S PATH.(Dana Buchman, Liz Claiborne Inc.)
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- WWD
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- March 27, 2006
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Byline: Marc Karimzadeh
Sitting in her Broadway showroom this month, Dana Buchman reminisced about her first encounter with Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg in 1982. Buchman, then a designer at Ellen Tracy, was being interviewed by Claiborne for a design job in knitwear.
"I was nervous," the designer recalled. "Liz was already so famous, and I really wanted the job. She offered me a cup of coffee, which I accepted, but my hand was shaking so much that I had to put it down."
Much has changed for Buchman since those early jitters. In 1987, the designer started an eponymous bridge collection as part of the Liz Claiborne company, which began its ...