--- title: Donna Karan on Zaha Hadid, a Woman and an Artist of Her Time description: "Her spirit, passion and brilliance were evident in everything she did" canonical: https://time.com/4278249/donna-karan-zaha-hadid/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-31T18:25:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:22:58.944Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Donna Karan Honors 'Visionary' Zaha Hadid og:description: "Her spirit, passion and brilliance were evident in everything she did" og:url: https://time.com/4278249/donna-karan-zaha-hadid/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt474b657c0df45f13/69888d2dbc6cfc48333dc637/zaha-hadid-dead-obit-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5616 og:image:height: 3159 og:image:alt: Zaha Hadid og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donna Karan Honors 'Visionary' Zaha Hadid twitter:description: "Her spirit, passion and brilliance were evident in everything she did" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt474b657c0df45f13/69888d2dbc6cfc48333dc637/zaha-hadid-dead-obit-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donna Karan Honors 'Visionary' Zaha Hadid > Sponsored content. 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Gavin Smith—Camera Press/Redux by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 31, 2016 6:25 PM UTC When legendary architect Zaha Hadid was named to TIME’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2010, designer [Donna Karan wrote a tribute to her work](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685%5F1984745,00.html), comparing her [buildings](http://time.com/4277981/see-zaha-hadids-most-awe-inspiring-buildings/) to “a gust of wind—organic, forceful and utterly natural.” The art and design world lost that force of nature on Thursday, when Hadid [died at 65](http://time.com/4277898/zaha-hadid-death/). As admirers around the world took to the Internet to share what the architect meant to them, Karan shared her thoughts on Hadid’s life and influence with TIME: --- > “” --- Hadid and Karan [collaborated on a women’s perfume](http://www.archdaily.com/268487/donna-karans-woman-perfume-bottle-zaha-hadid) in 2012 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4278249/donna-karan-zaha-hadid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4278249/donna-karan-zaha-hadid/"},"headline":"Donna Karan Honors 'Visionary' Zaha Hadid","datePublished":"2016-03-31T18:25:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:22:58.944Z","description":"\"Her spirit, passion and brilliance were evident in everything she did\"","url":"https://time.com/4278249/donna-karan-zaha-hadid/","keywords":["remembrance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt474b657c0df45f13/69888d2dbc6cfc48333dc637/zaha-hadid-dead-obit-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt474b657c0df45f13/69888d2dbc6cfc48333dc637/zaha-hadid-dead-obit-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Zaha Hadid","caption":"Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid.","creditText":"Gavin Smith—Camera Press/Redux","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrance/","name":"remembrance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4278249/donna-karan-zaha-hadid/","name":"Donna Karan Honors 'Visionary' Zaha Hadid"}}]}] ```