Donna Karan famous quotes

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
-- Donna Karan

#Positive #Fashion #Hair

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
-- Donna Karan

#Fashion #Design #Challenges

The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being
-- Donna Karan

#Important #Well Being #Wells

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Fashion #Strong #Women

I believe in the power of women. As nurturers, we have a unique ability to care and share and make the world a better place. Women Who Inspire are women who are making a difference.
-- Donna Karan

#Believe #Unique #Differences

Everything in life... has to have balance.
-- Donna Karan

#Life #Balance

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

#Body #Layers #Firsts

Every problem has a creative solution.
-- Donna Karan

#Creative #Problem #Solutions

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.
-- Donna Karan

#Heart #Soul #Body

Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.
-- Donna Karan

#Clothes #Needs #Body

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

#Heart #My Heart #Should

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

#Design #Universe

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

#Fashion #Real #Looks

Accent your positive and delete your negative.
-- Donna Karan

#Negative #Accents

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Fashion #Space #People

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

#Power #Long #Way

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

#New York #Mean #World

Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.
-- Donna Karan

#Calm #Chaos #Findings

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced
-- Donna Karan

#Creativity #Hopeful #Haiti

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

#Heart #Eye #Problem

My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.
-- Donna Karan

#New Year #Yoga #Years

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.
-- Donna Karan

#Forever #Mist #Cashmere

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Heart #Who I Am #Expression

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Design #Effort #Feel Good

Every woman has the power to seduce the world with her uniqueness, passion and creativity.
-- Donna Karan

#Passion #Creativity #World

Everything comes out of what works for me.
-- Donna Karan

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

#People #Dresses #Needed

For me, starting each collection is always about what I really want, what I really need, and I was personally dying for sensual comfort. I think when you think of Donna Karan, you think of sensuality, but it's a different kind of sensuality. A kind of comfort sensuality that is one with your body and the way clothes feel on.
-- Donna Karan

#Thinking #Clothes #Sensual

I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.
-- Donna Karan

#Design #Needs #Looks

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.
-- Donna Karan

#Believe #Working Together #Philanthropy

I can't tell you how much I appreciate these young [Israeli] designers. There's too much strife in the world. If we become united in our creativity, not only in what we wear, but what we do, we will change the world. It's truly an honor to be around such inspiration.
-- Donna Karan

#Inspiration #Creativity #Israel

Just take a breath and see what happens.
-- Donna Karan

My favorite journey is anywhere I haven't been
-- Donna Karan

#Journey #My Favorite

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
-- Donna Karan

#Numbers #Stuff #Negotiation

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Children #I Love My Family #Family And Friends

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
-- Donna Karan

#Yoga #Practice #Meditation

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

#Husband #Who I Am #Creative

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

#Yoga #Balance #Needs

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

#Children #Hippie #Flower

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Yoga #Class #Lines

Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really am to see another day. There are so many who may have not woken up to see it but I have been blessed.
-- Donna Karan

#Morning #Blessed #Sunshine

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

#Fashion #Clothes #Designer

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Color #Black #Illusion

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.
-- Donna Karan

#Spiritual #Memories #Powerful

Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels
-- Donna Karan

#Clothes #Individuality #Style

Where there is creativity, there is hope.
-- Donna Karan

#Creativity #Hopeful #There Is Hope

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.
-- Donna Karan

#Intuition #Needs #Sixth Sense

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

#Motorcycle #Today #World

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

#Fashion #Dresses #Levels