DKNY has named Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow as creative directors of DKNY. Mr. Osborne and Mr. Chow are the founders of the haute New York street wear brand Public School.
Public School have a rough, gender-neutral appeal that is very of the moment, though not necessarily very DKNY, which has tended to the more neon-tinted, young-girl-in-the-big-city side of things.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/fashion/dkny-maxwell-osborne-dao-yi-chow-public-school.html?ref=fashion: In a statement, Caroline Brown, the Donna Karan chief executive, said the team would “re-energize and redefine what authentic New York means for DKNY right now given today’s world of fast living, extreme innovation and global competition at the highest level.”