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Donna Ivy Faske was born in Queens, New York. She was the second daughter of her family
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Donna;s mom died when she was only 3yrs old. Her father remarried and they eventually moved to Woodmere, NY.
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Donna married Mark Karan. They had a daughter and later divorced in 1978.
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Anne Klein, her mentor, dies and she rises to be the head designer of her collections.
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Donna kept finishing her ex mentor;s work. She creates another one of Anne Klein's inspiring lines
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She gets married once again, but this time it is with sculptor, Stephen Weiss. The couple met on a blind date when she was only 18.
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She released her new line of jeans then followed that by another bag collection. Yet another success, along with her many lines of various different categories.
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Donaa was given the Clinton Global Citizen Award for som of her relief work in Haiti.