Donna Karan Quotes

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  It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.

  Donna Karan

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

  Donna Karan

• It’s really easy to get colors right. It’s really hard to get black – and neutrals – right. Black is certainly a color but it’s also an illusion.

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

  Donna Karan

• Everything in life… has to have balance.

  Donna Karan

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

  Donna Karan

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

  Donna Karan

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

  Donna Karan

• Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

  Donna Karan

• Accent your positive and delete your negative.

  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

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Donna Karan (12)

Birth:	2nd October, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Donna Karan was born in Queens, New York. She also known under the alias "DK", is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels. She graduated from Hewlett High School in 1966, and then went to the Parsons School of Design. She began her career as an assistant designer with Anne Klein in the late 1960s, where she was promoted to associate designer in 1971. As Klein's assistant, Karan was a participant in The Battle of Versailles Fashion Show on November 28, 1973. She showed her first women's clothing collection in 1985. She won the Coty American Fashion Critics’ Award in 1977 and 1982. She won special CFDA awards in 1985, 1986 and 1987.

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