I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

I never see one woman when I design, it's always a universe of women

I realized I needed to address people, not just dress them.

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?"

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.