The first thing I notice about Norma Kamali over Zoom—besides her impossibly youthful, famously acupunctured face and her signature cat-eye glasses, that is—is the quote painted on the wall behind her, by Søren Kirkegaard: "Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." "The man I'm with," she explains, demurely referring to her fiancé, "sits opposite me, and he looks at his favorite quotes on my wall, and I look at my favorite quotes on his wall."
It's not hard to imagine someone adorning their walls with some of Kamali's own wisdom someday. It almost feels reductive to call her a designer, because she is about a thousand other things—a wellness pioneer, a guru to generations of young designers, a font of assorted advice, and now an author, with her book I Am Invincible having come out earlier this month. The book grew out of a 50th birthday present she gave a friend—a Moleskine illustrated with Kamali's 50 tips on turning 50. She framed the book-length version as a primer for every stage of life, going up to the century mark and beyond; She calls it "the handbook that I wish I would've had."
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