A personal, provocative memoir by the iconic designer includes candid stories about her difficult and isolated childhood, her nearly five-decade career in the fashion industry, her two marriages, her children, and her spiritual life.

Includes index.

Born into fashion -- The other side of the tracks -- School of design -- Thunderstruck -- Back to Seventh Avenue -- A birth and a death -- Flying solo -- Friends for life -- Reunited -- Act Two -- Fired and hired -- Seven (not so) easy pieces -- Show time -- Woman to woman -- DKNY: a family affair -- New York state of mind -- Woman to man -- Inward bound -- Losing control -- Seeing the world -- Create, collaborate, change -- The last Christmas -- Free fall -- Are you committed? -- Connecting the dots -- Letting go.