Her looks, which Karan designed by wrapping fabric literally wearing her collections as she created them, have been worn by powerful women, from Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton to Barbra Streisand and Demi Moore.
The DIs wore their hair long and pinned up in "sock buns, " a Marine Corps specialty that required snipping off the toe line of a sock, rolling the fabric into a doughnut shape, and wrapping and winding a ponytail's worth of hair around it.