Designer Donna Karan has jumped to the defense Harvey Weinstein in the face of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct over the years, suggesting that his victims were “asking for it.”
Karan decided to share these thoughts—and others!—with the Daily Mail during a red carpet interview at the CinéFashion Film Awards on Sunday. Here she goes:
She told a reporter: ‘I think we have to look at ourselves. Obviously, the treatment of women all over the world is something that has always had to be identified. Certainly in the country of Haiti where I work, in Africa, in the developing world, it’s been a hard time for women.
‘To see it here in our own country is very difficult, but I also think how do we display ourselves? How do we present ourselves as women? What are we asking? Are we asking for it by presenting all the sensuality and all the sexuality?
‘And what are we throwing out to our children today about how to dance and how to perform and what to wear? How much should they show?’
Is she done? Nah:
“You look at everything all over the world today and how women are dressing and what they are asking by just presenting themselves the way they do. What are they asking for? Trouble.”
Karan is friends with Weinstein and his wife, the Marchesa creator Georgina Chapman, and called them both “wonderful people.”
“I don’t think it’s only Harvey Weinstein,” she said, smiling broadly.