Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.

I also miss the support that I had of so many people. You know I'm a very Ma and Pa operation right now, and I was used to having everything working for me. It was a similar situation when I left Anne Klein and started Donna Karan. All of a sudden I was working in my apartment and it was, "Oh my god, what am I doing?"

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.

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

My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries . . .