When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.
I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.
We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.
I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
