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Donna Karan is known for having revolutionized the working woman's wardrobe with her sleek urban clothes. But recently, Karan has been honing another concept in the loft-like Greenwich Village space that once housed her late husband's studio. Urban Zen Foundation is Karan's new philanthropic venture that hopes to raise awareness and inspire change in the areas of advancing well-being, empowering children and preserving cultures. Alongside the Foundation is Karan's new retail concept, Urban Zen, where she sells a mix of her own creations and objects she has culled on trips around the world. Karan...
...just make sketches on my 4-track - very, very rough pictures of songs. Tunes, bits and pieces of things that I think of, that kind of thing. I'll have hundreds of songs on my tapes and then I take 20 or 30 of those into the big studio to record. Of those, the songs that fit together the best are the one that make it on the record. Basically I look for songs that I can thread together in some...
...track is really old fashioned. Why don't you use digital? For my sketches it's always 4-track and when I take the songs into the big studio it's always analog, which is one or two-inch tape. I feel like digital recording is a little bit too cold for me. Plus I spend a lot of my time listeing to older records that are recorded on older tape. That's the bar I've set for myself, to sound like that...
Last year you made a record with Zooey Deschanel under the name She & Him. How did that project come about? I was doing music for a film that she was starring in called Go Getter. The director had an idea to put us in the studio together to record a Richard Thompson song. So we met in L.A. and got along really well and eventually she sent me her demos and I thought they were incredible, so I told her you know, "Let's make a record." She came up to Portland and it took about no more than...
...pictures from an X-Ray studio...