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Norma

Kamali

AND EIGHT THINGS SHE

CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT.

BY VANESSA L AWRENCE

Norma Kamali.

Dog Tag Necklace

On our anniversary every year,

my soul mate and I give each

other a dog tag from a vending

machine at Walmart with our

names and the date on it.

walmart.com

Wooden Pillow

This is Korean. I discovered it

in a class at a Korean center in

New York City. When you lie on

it, it has an acupressure effect

on the back of your neck, right

where you get tension.

NormaLife SkinLine

You see results right away

with these products. Smooth is an

aloe-and-charcoal-based exfoliant,

and Glow gives you a color like

you’ve just worked out.

normakamali.com

NutriBullet Pro

Every day I use this to

make smoothies with avocado

and nutritional powders.

nutribullet.com

Javier Marín

I fell in love with his

resin sculptures

when I saw them at

an exhibit in Italy. A

few years later, a friend

gave me t wo of them.

They each weigh

850 pounds!

nohrahaimegallery.com

Sleeping

Bag Coat

I came up with the

idea for this down

coat in the 1970s

when I was

camping. I hate

the cold, and

I love the feeling of

being wrapped

in a blanket, so

that’s what

I want to wear.

normakamali.com

Moroccan Slippers

These are from a souk in

Marrakech. I could spend a lifetime

walking through the souks—

it ’s like a treasure hunt.

Among fashion designers, you would be

hard-pressed to find a more fitting ambassador of

health than Norma Kamali. A pioneer who built

her 50-plus-year-old business on such prescient

(and female-empowering) creations as high-heeled

sneakers and elegant, flattering swimwear, she

opened a wellness café and juice bar in her midtown

Manhattan flagship in 2002, long before most people

started drinking their greens. Who better, then, to

debut a skin-care line devoted to clean and happy

Infrared Sauna

I’ve been doing this multiple times

a week for years—it’s a great way

to restore and heal the body.

I even persuaded the owners of

my West Village building to

add one as an amenity.

living? NormaLife, which launched this summer

with four unisex, multipurpose products, was

born out of Kamali’s decades-long personal

investigation into how to boost the immune

system and eliminate stress. “It’s time for me

to help people simplify their choices,” she

says, “and to make them accessible, demo-

cratic, and inclusive.” This fall, she is adding a

eucalyptus, patchouli, and lavender scent to

the line. “It is soothing and changes your

mood,” Kamali notes. “I’ve used this scent

for years, and it does the trick for me.”