Donna Karan Talks about the Future – The Author of 'My Journey' Visits Hearst

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“Who is Donna Karan?”On Tuesday evening in New York City’s Hearst Tower, Donna Karan andELLE Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers bantered before a packed audience—but it was Karanwho voicedthe “Who is Donna Karan?” question aloud.This, after all, is an especiallycontemplative time for Karan. Over the summer, she announced she would step down from her namesake company; this week, she published a memoir, My Journey, which chronicles how a girl who failed fabricdraping class at Parsons went on to create one of the richest and innovative brands in American fashion. – Continue Reading BelowWith Myers, Karan remembered how the women she wanted to dress in New York had been “wearing suits and ties and looking like men” to go to work in the ’80s. “Or,” Karan added, “They were wearing little party dresses—ladies who lunch. There was nothing in between. I remember thinking, ‘Well, I can’t wear this, and I can’t wear that. What can I wear?’ That’s how it started.”Leaving her post at Anne Klein to launch her own brand, Karan showed women clothes they wanted to wear and gave them permission to pay attention to their bodies.Years later, her mission statement is still attractive: “Accent the positive, delete the negative.”(Myers was blunter, quoting an interview Karan once gave in which she declared, “I’ve made people have a lot more sex.”)”I didn’t realize how successful it would become,” Karan said of the company. She went on to reinvent the wardrobes of working women for the next three decades, until she made the hard and inevitable decisionto leave the brand this year. “It was just time,” Karan said, adding,”I am going on a journey—my next journey.”For a sense of where she’s headed, we talked to Karan about motherhood, balance, and what she has planned next.Just a few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton and Lena Dunham remembered how Clinton decided to wear your dress—the “Cold-Shoulder Dress,” as you called it—to Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration. What do you remember about making it?What happened was I didn’t make the dress for her. That dress was in the collection. It was boo-hooed by Women’s Wear Daily completely. ‘The Cold Shoulder Dress―why would anyone want to expose their shoulders?’And I thought, It’s the only place that women never gain weight. The next thing I know, Liza Minnelli took the dress, and she wore it on stage. And then I opened up the paper one morning, and there was Hillary wearing the dress. I hadn’t known about it. – Continue Reading BelowYou’ve dressed both the Clintons, in fact, which you talk about in the book. Do you have your eye on her in this election? Without a doubt. I am voting for her. I think to see the Clintons back in the White House is dreams come true. As an object, the book is quite beautiful. Was that important to you? Did you have aesthetics in mind when you were working on it?Absolutely. For me, everything I see and touch aesthetically inspires me—whether it’s trees, whether it’s the sky, whether it’s a rock, whether it’s a color, whether it’s light. Wherever I am in an outside environment, I’m constantly being inspired by the colors of the stone or the wall, a light around a door, a doorway color, paint, art, objects. I think that’s what being an artist is all about. You’re constantly being inspired by all of that which is around you. That impacts everything I make. Were you always that way? It’s something I was born with. Absolutely.Do you feel like todayyou give more or less thought to what you wear than you did at the beginning of your career?I like a uniform. I like to be able to get up in the morning, throw on my clothes, get off to work, and then shift it—whether that be with a high heel or a flat or makeup or hair or something like that. I like to wear the same things.You’re a businesswoman and a mother and a very busy entrepreneur. How much time do you spend on self-care? I think women are generally giving and caring and sharing. That’s what being a mom is all about. It’s constantly giving and caring and sharing, and sometimes what we don’t think about is taking care of ourselves. It’s so much easier to take care of others. – Continue Reading Below – Continue Reading BelowYou write in the book that you had always intended to be a stay-at-home mom, but you’ve since built an incredible company and made sacrifices at home for it. After all these years, do you feel like you have a better sense of what work-lifebalance means?I think I always felt guilt about not being that stay-at-home mom, even though my daughter reiterates constantly what an incredible mother I am. Whether she does that to the press or she does it to me personally is a different story. But there is a definite guilt that I have that I was never that stay-at-home mom who could be there for her, but she felt that I was, and that’s important to me.Were there moments where your priorities as a mom and as a working woman were in conflict? Practically every day. But mostlyright before a show:There was always that call. ‘Mommy, I need you.’And I’d go, ‘But I have a show to do!’And she’d go www.yokosukabase.com , ‘But Mommy 80% off canada goose , can I have my haircut?’And I’d go, ‘Gabby, I have to get a collection done.’It was just, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.And I would feel so bad not being able to take care of her because I was taking care of the show.Do you have more time to take care of yourself now that you’re not running the brand? No. I don’t think so. I feel now that I have to take care of even more. Because of the work that I do at [my philanthropic initiative] Urban Zen, it really takes me into so many different areas—healthcare, education, culture. There are so many passions that I have. There are issues in the world that we’re living in today, and they have to be resolved. Starting a new company is rather mind-boggling. It takes a lot. It takes a lot more work than I had anticipated. What has surprised you most about this new era in your career? – Continue Reading BelowI’m not as young as I thought I was [laughs]. Let’s start there. And that it’s going to be a challenge. I have to really be very clear about what I want to do. It’s not that I have a lifetime to do it. I have X amount oftime that it will take me to really show thatUrban Zenis not about me. It’s about the ‘we’and bringing in the collective consciousness to Urban Zen. Do you ever have second thoughts about your choice to move on from Donna Karan, the brand?Absolutely, I have second thoughts every day.How do you silence them? What do you say to yourself?It’s done. And, finally, what are you most looking forward to?Travel—my own ‘motorcycle diaries’is something I have on my bucket list. I want to travel the world and work with artisans all over the world.

Donna Karan Talks about the Future – The Author of 'My Journey' Visits Hearst

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