Quotes by Donna Karan

About Donna Karan:

Donna Karan is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
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Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

Donna Karan

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

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

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

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

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.

Donna Karan

If it's a regular day, I won't wear any makeup, just leave my hair down and head out to the car.

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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.

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

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.

Donna Karan

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.

Donna Karan

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Donna Karan

I think I was a nomad in another life.

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.

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

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

Donna Karan

Author Bio

  • NameDonna Karan
  • DescriptionAmerican fashion designer
  • BornOctober 2, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDesigner