Donna Karan

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I live for what I haven't done.”

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

“Everything in life... has to have balance.”

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

“I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.”

“החיים הם למצוא את האיזון בין התפקידים השונים שלך ובאותו זמן למצוא מקום גם לעצמך.”

“זה הצבע היחידי שלא מושך תשומת לב.”

“נשים כיום הרבה יותר זהירות עם הכסף שהן מוציאות. המשמעות של זה היא לייצר עבורן בגדים שיכולים לענות למספר דרישות.”

“טרנדים ופרופורציות יכולים להשתנות, אבל לא השאלה הבסיסית 'מה ללבוש?'. זו שאלה שכל אישה שואלת את עצמה כשהיא עומדת מול הארון לפני יום עבודה עמוס. נשים צריכות בגדים שיעזרו להן להרגיש בטוחות וסקסיות. כל אישה שאני מכירה רוצה בגדים שידגישו את החיובי ויטשטשו את השלילי.”

“When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.”

“I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.”

“I'm a nature bug.”

“Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.”

“I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.”

“I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.”

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

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