Donna Karan Quotes

You have to keep your eyes and heart open - there are always new things to discover, new problems to solve.

A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not. So there I was.

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

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

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

I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.

Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .

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

I meditate whenever I can. I can be in the back seat of a car or in between appointments.

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 like the idea of having many different ways to express myself. There is a part of me as an artist and a creator who would like to express myself in many different ways. But then at the same time I know I have limited hours in the day, and I can only do so much successfully.

I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.

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 love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

I love Thieves, it is therapeutic, if you're not feeling well. It has a very strong scent but is quite wonderful. I also use lavender. Peppermint, when my stomach is upset.

My bodysuit is how I start everyday. I wear a bodysuit everyday of my life. It's how I start my yoga practice. It's underneath it all. For me, what goes under the clothes is as important as what goes on top of the clothes. It's a layering aspect, so it's inside.

I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. To be perfectly honest, I don't think violence is the answer to anything and I think, hopefully, she [Hillary Clinton] will be our president.

I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all a new chapter. I hope that people find this journey fascinating, informative and educational.

My biggest style regret is that I can't fit into the models' clothes.

I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.

I think it's changing is that business is not as good as it was and it has become a real question in the world of fashion. You see, bags and shoes don't take on the seasonal quality that fashion does. A black leather bag can be good in any season, but you can't say the same about fashion, particularly about fabrication.

My mind is always racing with ideas or things I should be doing.

When I go to Bali, when I come to India and travel and see different cultures. I make sure I'm involved in the world out there, creatively, culturally.

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

I love green juices, soups, and salads. I also love dark chocolate.

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

Assuming I'm home and don't have an event, I'll have a massage or I'll talk on the phone.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

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

I think Calvin [Klein] is a minimalist.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Everything comes out of what works for me.

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing.

One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

I'm not as obsessive-compulsive about certain things; I give a lot of latitude to people and support people. I know that I can't do it myself and that you're only as good as the people you have behind you.

I couldn't stand the fact that anybody else was dressing like me. It was supposed to be for me and my friends, not my daughter and her friends!

There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.

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?"

If I weren’t doing what I’m doing today... I’d be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

Many of the customers here are traveling all over the world so they need multiple types of clothes. That's one thing about Urban Zen - it is seasonless and it is timeless. So it's not about the fashion of a moment saying, "I have to have it now." It's something that you become a part of...sort of like a sari.