“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Delete the negative accentuate the positive! ”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.”

“I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.”