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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.

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Donna Karan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 2
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Fashion Designer
New York City
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Donna Ivy Faske
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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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You have to keep your eyes and heart open - there are always new things to discover, new problems to solve.
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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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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
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Where there is creativity, there is hope.
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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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I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing.
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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. So there I was.
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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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Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.
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I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.
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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.
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Everything in life... has to have balance.
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I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.
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I realized I needed to address people, not just dress them.
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My biggest style regret is that I can't fit into the models' clothes.
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