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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.

Donna Karan

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Donna Karan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 2
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Fashion Designer
New York City
New York
Donna Ivy Faske
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[The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], Wear-now-buy-now.
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I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.
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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.
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Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
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I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.
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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.
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I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love green juices, soups, and salads. I also love dark chocolate.
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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.
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I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.
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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.
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Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one.
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I realized I needed to address people, not just dress them.
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I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, pilates or meditation.
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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!
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