Donna Karan Quotes

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

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

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.

I celebrate my people a lot and that's why people stay with me as long as they do.

With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.

It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.

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

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.

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

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

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

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.

Usually I do a practice in the morning first and then meditate. I'm fortunate that I can do it in a car, in a bus, in a plane.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

Now the industry is looking at the change in a very real way - to find ways of talking to the consumer much faster. Everything we have is changing with communication - from fashion to newspapers.

I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

I love to play, I love to dance, I love to party . . . I'm a liver. I think what I need to learn is how to find the calmness, the centeredness.

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

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

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

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.

I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any one thing.

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

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

When I see a non-yogi [benefit], that's when it really affects my life.

That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance.

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

I do remember how sexy my collection was after I first got involved with Stephan [Weiss]. That's one thing I don't have in my life now and...if anything, that's one thing I would love.

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

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

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

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.

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.

Delete the negative accentuate the positive!

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.