Fashion designer Donna Karan sparked outrage online when she defended her friend, the wonderful Harvey Weinstein , in a red carpet interview on Sunday night and suggested that his alleged sexual harassment victims were somehow asking for it.

Speaking to a reporter at the CinFashion Film Awards in Los Angeles, Karan, 69, implied that the blame for the alleged attacks couldnt be borne by the studio executive alone. Video of the exchange was shared online Monday by the U.K. tabloid the Daily Mail .

I think we have to look at ourselves. Obviously, the treatment of women all over the world is something that has always had to be identified. Certainly in the country of Haiti where I work, in Africa, in the developing world, its been a hard time for women, Karan said. To see it here in our own country is very difficult, but I also think how do we display ourselves? How do we present ourselves as women? What are we asking? Are we asking for it by presenting all the sensuality and all the sexuality?

According to the Daily Mail, the reporter then asked Karan whether Hollywood had been busted after Weinsteins alleged past as a sexual predator was laid bare by a recent New York Times investigation .

Karan said she doesnt think were only looking at [Weinstein]. I think were looking at a world much deeper than that.

Harvey has done some amazing things, Karan continued. I think we have to look at our world and what we want to say and how we want to say it as well. You look at everything all over the world today and how women are dressing and what they are asking by just presenting themselves the way they do. What are they asking for? Trouble.