Donna Karan Quotes

I think the biggest shift is the way people look at and have access to fashion. It's already old the minute you've seen it, and we've already moved on. Fashion has become very in and out. Back in the days when I started, you would wait for Vogue to come out, and that is where you would see what people wore that month. Now we are looking at what someone is wearing this second.

With the traditional six-month lead time on the delivery of international show content, designer collections can be outpaced by the so-called fast fashion chains. H&M, Topshop and Zara, or even Target and J. Crew, would have their versions for sale before the designer looks hit the stores.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.

The fashion cycle is outdated.

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

People like things they can do now, not just think about.

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

Fashion is instant - after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That's the nature of it.

There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.

I'm just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That's all I'm focused on.

I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure.

Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.

You don't throw clothes away, because you know it's going to come back in fashion!

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.