Donna Karan Quotes

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

Everything I've designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

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.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.