For the better part of two decades, Donna Karan has been living quietly in the Hamptons — spotted only occasionally here and there, in Sag Harbor at Le Bilboquet or at Vera Wang’s Manhattan townhouse to celebrate Gene Pressman’s Barneys book — mostly keeping to herself since selling her namesake brand in 2001.
This summer, she’s back.
Karan, who pretty much ruled Seventh Avenue in the 1990s, is exec producing Mister Halston, a new play about her old pal Halston, the swashbuckling Studio 54 habitué whose spectacular rise and even more spectacular fall is getting the stage treatment for the first time. “I saw a workshop staging of Mister Halston last summer at Bay Street Theater and liked it so much, I wanted to get involved,” Karan, 77, tells Rambling. The world premiere runs June 2-21 at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, which is, of course, practically in Karan’s backyard.
...Keep reading this article on Hollywood Reporter.
