“I don’t want to be 20, 30 or 40 anymore,” Kamali said. In the book, she looks back on each decade and the wisdom she has acquired in love, life, health and work. “We met at a point in our lives when we both felt so secure about who we were that we could give of ourselves in a way that is as close to unconditional as you can get,” she writes. “He said, ‘If you’re not busy, we should do this,’ ” Kamali said. They never discussed marriage over their previous decade of dating, but he put it in a birthday note. “There we were morning, noon and night, cooking together, having coffee in the middle of the day.
“COVID, in some bizarre way, really brought us together - closer than we normally would be because he travels a lot, and I am always working,” she said. On Kamali’s 75th birthday last June, Edelman proposed. When she turned 65, her friend, hotelier Ian Schrager, introduced her to lawyer Marty Edelman.
She went on to become a trailblazing designer thanks to creations like her sleeping-bag coat and coveted swimsuits. Tamara Beckwith/NY Postīut by 1975, she was divorced - and Kamali, who expected to prove the astrologer wrong, never wed again. Norma Kamali has been a trailblazing force in women’s fashion - designing bold looks (including the ones she models in this article).
“OK, he was good-looking and we danced great together - it was obviously destiny, right?” she writes in her new book, “ Norma Kamali: I Am Invincible” (Abrams), which is part-memoir, part-wellness handbook with tips on nutrition, exercise, aging and more. “I said, ‘No, no, no, no.’ ”Īt the time, she was already married - to Eddie Kamali, an Iranian she had met at a club when they both won $500 in a dance contest. “She said I was going to meet my soulmate at 65,” the fashion designer, now 75, told The Post. In 1970, an astrologer delivered some Earth-shattering news to then 25-year-old Norma Kamali.
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