I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

Now the industry is looking at the change in a very real way - to find ways of talking to the consumer much faster. Everything we have is changing with communication - from fashion to newspapers.

With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

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