Donna Karan Quotes

I wanted to create clothing that I would wear - that I truly want to wear - but which would also fit my active lifestyle.

I've always wanted to create athleisure; it's my thing.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So I made one. Then I made a pullover. 'Elle' put it on the cover. Then WWD elected me the Queen of Knitwear.

People look great in leggings and shorts and athletic clothes.

After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?

It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what I brought to the show.