Donna Karan’s hilltop compound in the Northwest Woods section of East Hampton is where the designer began her spiritual journey, she recently told Hamptons magazine. Of her home, Karan says, “This has always been my retreat. I would take long walks along the beach and look at the rocks and the water, and that was where I would find my calm.”
Karan lives in a “conglomeration of modernist-style homes inhabited by the entire Karan clan” which includes next-door neighbors daughter Gabby Karan and Gabby’s husband Gian Paolo de Felice and the couple’s two children. The compound overlooks a rocky shoreline leading to Gardiners Bay. Public records show that Karan, who lives on Hedges Banks Drive, is a neighbor of music mogul Sean Combs.
Karan once told In-Style , "I grew up on Long Island, in Woodmere, right near Atlantic Beach. I raised Gabby on Fire Island. The beach has always been my place to think and create.”