NWgal
10-04-2004, 04:41 AM
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Karan doesnÂ’t have to be anywhere these days. She sold her trademarks and her publicly traded company to LVMH in 2001, for $643 million, at least $400 million of which went into her own pocket. That was the same year her husband, Stephan Weiss, an artist and her longtime business partner, died of lung cancer; she still talks about him constantly. Today, Karan, who remains chief designer of the company, has a new face-lift by Dan Baker, a trim figure courtesy of a raw-food diet, and a 30-ish boyfriend, male model J. J. Biasucci, who recently accompanied her on a trip to Bali. Clad in a red patterned wrap skirt and her most famous fashion statement, a black bodysuit, Karan has the blossoming vitality of a teenager back from an exotic summer abroad, one so excited by the world that she canÂ’t be bothered to speak in full sentences or even observe basic precepts of grammar. Sexiness isnÂ’t necessarily the first thing you would think about her, but itÂ’s there: She wants to be sexy, so she is.
Karan doesnÂ’t have to be anywhere these days. She sold her trademarks and her publicly traded company to LVMH in 2001, for $643 million, at least $400 million of which went into her own pocket. That was the same year her husband, Stephan Weiss, an artist and her longtime business partner, died of lung cancer; she still talks about him constantly. Today, Karan, who remains chief designer of the company, has a new face-lift by Dan Baker, a trim figure courtesy of a raw-food diet, and a 30-ish boyfriend, male model J. J. Biasucci, who recently accompanied her on a trip to Bali. Clad in a red patterned wrap skirt and her most famous fashion statement, a black bodysuit, Karan has the blossoming vitality of a teenager back from an exotic summer abroad, one so excited by the world that she canÂ’t be bothered to speak in full sentences or even observe basic precepts of grammar. Sexiness isnÂ’t necessarily the first thing you would think about her, but itÂ’s there: She wants to be sexy, so she is.