Donna Karan was the guest of honor Thursday night at a seated dinner for the Glasswing gala at Cipriani’s lower Broadway outpost.

The designer picked up the nonprofit’s Humanitarian Award for her work through the Urban Zen Foundation, which has helped to humanize health care, empowered artisans in Haiti, and launched yoga, nutrition and education programs for children in underserved communities.

Standing in the tropically designed room, Karan said although she has traveled extensively, South America was not a place she had traveled to. After connecting with the Venezuelan entrepreneur Carmen Busquets about Glasswing, Karan said she was “blown away because her heart and her soul belongs to these countries by not only dressing but addressing.” The designer said she and Glasswing’s leade

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