[8] Her grandfather started out in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, making suits for the immigrant community and later moving to Moppets, one of the largest children’s fashion manufacturers.
[8][10] During her school years, young Dana worked in the family fashion businesses in Europe, learning other languages especially French.
[13] After graduating magna cum laude,[14] she found a job in advertising sales at an in flight magazine company called the East-West Network.
[8] In 1981, Fields was looking to get into fashion ad sales and she had an impromptu lunch with then a Rolling Stones Executive, Dan Chaifair.
And in 1993, US Magazine advertising pages increased 20%; she brought in Bloomingdales as a client, with a men's fashion show, and music video tie in.
[6][22] In 1995, Fields organized a highly innovative collaboration with two of her biggest competitors, Men's Health and Esquire, for a joint promotional campaign for the Hagger Clothing Company, cited by the common client as "taking advertising to another level.
[27] In 1999, the British media giant EMAP was looking to bring its highly successful young men's title FHM to the United States, to challenge Maxim magazine.
[14][18][39] In 2014, Fields and Joe Mohen partnered to merge Nylon Magazine with FashionIndie, to create a media company for young adult audiences, with an editorial focus on fashion, music, and lifestyle.
[41] In 1996, Fields married Dan Gearon, who attended United States Military Academy and Columbia University,[42] and, who at the time, was CEO of a Boston-based advertising agency,[9][43][44] whose client, the Boston Beer Company, concocted a Steinbier (stone beer) from a German recipe dating back centuries for their reception.