Donna Karan

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle. ”

I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels. ”

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. ”

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.' ”

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt. ”

I always thought I should have been a better mother. ”

I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else. ”

Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop. ”

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

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. ”