Donna Karan quotes

Donna Karan is an American fashion designer, best known for founding the Donna Karan New York (DKNY) brand. Her modern and practical designs have had a major influence on women's fashion, especially in the realm of workwear and urban style. She has become a powerful figure in the global fashion industry and an advocate for innovative design. Here are 21 of her quotes:

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

Donna Karan

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

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

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

Donna Karan

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

Donna Karan

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.

Donna Karan

Everything comes out of what works for me.

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

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

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

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