Donna Karan

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.

I always thought I should have been a better mother.

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

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.