Kendall Jenner Steps Into a Donna Karan Frame Nearly Forty Years in the Making

Donna Karan's new campaign puts Kendall Jenner in front of Mert Alas's lens for a story built around New York City itself, its pace and its light doing as much work as the clothes. The image doesn't stand alone: it deliberately calls back to a Donna Karan campaign shot in the late 1980s by photographer Dennis Piel, with Rosemary McGrotha as the face of the house at the time. Placing Jenner in that lineage turns a single sitting into a small piece of continuity for a New York label built on exactly that kind of city energy.

With reporting from WWD Fashion.