Donna Karan Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Donna Karan:
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
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Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.
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Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
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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.
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I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.
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I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.
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I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.
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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
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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.
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To me, 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.
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I live for what I haven't done.
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Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work.
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Everything comes out of what works for me.
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I'm really quite simple.
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I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
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I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don't tell too many people that.
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I'm a nature bug.
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If it's a regular day, I won't wear any makeup, just leave my hair down and head out to the car.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
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It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.
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Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.
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I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.
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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.
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I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
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Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
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If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.
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I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.
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I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
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Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
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When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.
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I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.
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I always thought I should have been a better mother.
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My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
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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.
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Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
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I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else.
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We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
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I think I was a nomad in another life.
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Everything in life... has to have balance.
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