Meet Doên Founders Margaret and Katherine Kleveland


Katherine Kleveland Doen

During their years working in fashion, Southern Californian sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland were increasingly impressed — and not favorably so — by how rare it was to see women holding top positions in the industry. This even though, as they note, women are most often the ones "designing, purchasing, and wearing the clothes.".


Katherine Kleveland Doen

The line, designed by Santa Barbara-born and -raised sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland (who founded Dôen in 2015), marks the brand's first-ever retail partnership. The siblings.


Katherine Kleveland Doen

Avoidances: Eats mostly vegan and gluten-free. Margaret and Katherine Kleveland are the sisters behind the totally-dreamy, quintessentially-California fashion brand Dôen. A quick look on their Instagram reveals billowy tops and prairie-style dresses that will instantly make you want to kick your shoes off and run around in the sand — or is.


Since last Spring, Dôen has a mainstay in my closet. Designers

DÔEN. Inspired by nostalgic California decades of the past, DÔEN's thoughtful collections surpass trends in the most timelessly chic way. DÔEN, created by sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland, employ manufacturers who empower women and are like minded in aiming to close the gender gap. Shop The RealReal's luxurious edit of DÔEN.


Katherine Kleveland Doen

This piece marks a first, as we get a behind-the-scenes look at the crazy/beautiful family life of Katherine Kleveland, a mama of two little boys (Wilder, 4, and Shepard, 2 1/2) and one of the designers behind the incredibly buzzy label Dôen, which she works on alongside her sister, Margaret Kleveland, as well as a small circle of women, many.


Katherine Kleveland Doen

Our Story. Founded by Santa Barbara-born sisters, Margaret and Katherine Kleveland, and a Collective of five women, DÔEN is a women-run business offering collections inspired by a nostalgia for the coastal California of decades past. Informed by their years spent in the fashion industry which highlighted the lack of representation of women at.


Dôen Fetes Netaporter Collab, Announces First Retail Store in L.A. WWD

Courtesy. Los Angeles brand Dôen is having a full-circle moment. The founders and sisters, Margaret and Katherine Kleveland, are opening their second store this spring in Montecito, Calif., not.


DÔEN // Margaret + Katherine Kleveland — How You Glow

Influenced by their childhoods in Santa Barbara, siblings, Margaret Kleveland, CEO, and Katherine Kleveland, COO, design clothes imbued with "nostalgia and femininity," says Margaret. And a certain quiet strength: Rather than a traditional company, Dôen is a small collective of like-minded women; they produce five collections a year.


DÔEN // Margaret + Katherine Kleveland — How You Glow

The DÔEN lifestyle is one that tells a unique and rich story: flattering, easy silhouettes, in luxe fabrics at an approachable price point for real women. Santa Barbara born and raised sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland founded DÔEN in 2015. As veterans of the fashion industry, they observed a lack of female force within their field.


The Dôen Sisters Host a California Dreamy Dinner to Celebrate a New

Typically that sort of instant brand recognition is the result of a flashy logo, but not for Dôen, the three-year-old label run by sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland in Los Angeles. Dôen.


Check out these photos and interview with Katherine Kleveland of Doen

The Los Angeles-based bohemian fashion brand, which was founded by sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland as a direct-to-consumer retail business in 2015, opened its first bricks-and-mortar shop.


Meet Doên Founders Margaret and Katherine Kleveland

Sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland, who both have long histories working as executives in the Los Angeles fashion industry, founded the company with six other women who each bring something different to the table. The twist? All eight women own the company as a collective. "I woke up one day and was like, 'I have to start this company.'


Check out these photos and interview with Katherine Kleveland of Doen

For sisters and founding partners Katherine and Margaret Kleveland (the brand's CCO and CEO, respectively), Dôen was born to fill a very real hole in the market—and their closets.


Katherine Kleveland Doen

Spoiler alert: we've found the most quintessentially California dress brand, all dusky palettes, nature-infused prints and whimsical silhouettes. Her name is Doên. Founded by Santa Barbara-based sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland in 2015, the pretty Cali export has been on Vogue editors' radars for some time (at least three editors.


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Aug 14, 2018. Margaret and Katherine Kleveland. Photo: Courtesy of Dôen. In our long-running series "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion industry about how they.


Check out these photos and interview with Katherine Kleveland of Doen

Sisters Margaret and Katherine Kleveland founded DÔEN in 2016, driven to create beautiful, accessible pieces. Staying true to their feminist roots, the duo aims to close the gender gap at every stage of the supply chain and design process by working with carefully selected manufacturers that support and empower women.

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