Zitat des Tages von Donna Karan:
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.
I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.
It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.
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.
My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.
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.
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.
I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don't tell too many people that.
Everything in life... has to have balance.
I think I was a nomad in another life.
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.
We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.
I'm a nature bug.
Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.
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.
When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'
I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.