Norma Kamali on Dating, Aging, London in the 60s, Her Iconic Fashion Career, and "The More You Do, the More You Can Do"

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

This week, a conversation with designer Norma Kamali, whose 50-year career is as rich as her designs are iconic. She’s full of wisdom and perspective and gently gives me advice on everything from aging, to dating (she fell in love again ten years ago at 65), to how she views busyness. We get into her thoughts on her evolving industry, upcoming generations, and so much more.

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0:00.0	It's up to the person to decide whether to follow the momentum of where it's taking you,
0:12.0	or to resist it and stay focused on the goal.
0:16.0	Either one of those decisions are good.
0:21.1	Either one of them can work.
0:23.3	But if something in the process was profound enough
0:28.7	to stop you, take a look at what that is
0:32.4	and where it's steering you and maybe followed that. Let it go.
0:37.5	Let it out.
1:08.3	We have a full-on icon here this week.
1:12.5	This is Let It Out. I'm Katie.
1:18.5	This week, I have a conversation over Zoom. I just recorded it and I'm putting it out
1:31.0	really quickly after with designer, legend, Norma Kamali. She spoke to me from her office in Manhattan, and in this conversation you'll hear,
1:38.7	she has so much wisdom and perspective, and she's really gentle, and she gives me sage advice on everything from aging to dating, and we get into how she sees generations and the decades that she's worked through
1:48.4	over her career and lived through, and we talk about her changing industry. I hope I did her
1:54.7	career in her life justice in this conversation because she's truly one of the most interesting
2:00.2	people I've spoken to,
2:02.5	and she's seen so much over her career, and there was a lot to cover. And honestly, it got a bit
2:09.6	overwhelmed. And I didn't know how much time I would have with her, but she was incredibly
2:14.1	generous with her time. But even after talking to her for over two hours total
2:20.9	with what was recorded and what wasn't, it would not have been enough time because I could have
2:27.1	asked her a million more questions about everything from working at the airlines in the 1960s. She equates the airlines at that time
2:38.8	to being like working for tech companies now. You know, they were the Apple or the Google of back
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