I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.
My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It’s where you connect mind, body and spirit.
I wouldn’t be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.
Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn’t go near.
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.
I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice – yoga, Pilates or meditation.
There was a time when we would pick up Women’s Wear Daily and couldn’t wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.
Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.
I feel very strongly about dresses on every level – a dress feels like underpinning.
Now the industry is looking at the change in a very real way – to find ways of talking to the consumer much faster. Everything we have is changing with communication – from fashion to newspapers.
Where there is creativity, there is hope.
One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have – we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.
You have to keep your eyes and heart open – there are always new things to discover, new problems to solve.
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.
Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I’ve experienced.
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.
It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.
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!