Donna Karan and Urban Zen
One World with Deepak Chopra – Donna Karan
Leaving an iconic trademark on American fashion and wardrobe essentials, Donna Karan’s 21st century focus bridged conventional & holistic healthcare with her Urban Zen center.
Donna Karan: Her Heart & Passion Behind Urban Zen
An icon of the fashion industry; there are very few people who are not familiar with the design work of Donna Karan. Donna Karan was born into fashion; “my father was a tailor and my mother was a fashion model so I thought that [fashion] was the one thing I never wanted to do. Of course whatever we don’t want, that’s what happens,” she recalled in a sit down with Deepak Chopra for Newswire.fm’s ongoing series One World. It seems that Donna Karan was destined for a career in the fashion industry and since her start with Anne Klein in the 1960s, her rise through the fashion world has been meteoric. What is perhaps less widely known is Donna Karan’s work with Urban Zen.
Urban Zen emerged from the fact that there is so much chaos in this world and Donna Karan’s belief “that it wasn’t what you were wearing on the outside but what you were wearing on the inside” that was going to make the largest impact. After dealing with health issues in her own family Donna Karan realized that illness affects everyone. “Nobody gets away with this,” she explained to Deepak. “We’re all going to be patients and we’re all going to be loved ones and the problem that I saw with the healthcare system was that there was no care in healthcare.”
