Donna Karan is originally known for her uniform dressing in the eighties. Her Seven Easy Pieces, a landmark simple-dressing system that Karan debuted in 1985, offered modern women (strong ambitious women, with complicated home lives and real bodies) a streamlined formula to take them from the 'boardroom to the banquette'. Among the seven outfits was a tailored jacket with a powerful body-sculpted silhouette characterised by strong shoulders and defined waist.
She revisited this concept in her Fall 2009 collection, resulting in one of her most successful collections. The collection featured a powerful triangular silohuette with sculpted shoulders and a wrapped or belted waist. The red jacket pictured is my favourite of the collection. It features a stand with no collar, and powerful rounded shoulders that give the jacket a real russian military meets oriental aesthetic. The jacket had two welt pockets and a jet pocket and is belted with a thin black belt to add contrast and emphasise the waist. It is a real stunner. This jacket gives merit to the effectiveness of simple, clean, minimalistic design.
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