I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, pilates or meditation.

I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.

I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

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

Usually I do a practice in the morning first and then meditate. I'm fortunate that I can do it in a car, in a bus, in a plane.