Simon Doonan Born : October 30, 1952 Browse All Authors Top 14 quotes by Simon Doonan Conformity is the only real fashion crime Simon Doonan conformity fashion real Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism. Simon Doonan fashion real identity The charming shall inherit the Earth. Simon Doonan charming earth Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people. Simon Doonan knowing air people Dressing down is a crime against humanity. Simon Doonan crimes-against-humanity crime humanity The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score. Simon Doonan masochistic score important Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy? Simon Doonan conventional formal I don't want a politician who's thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garcons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy. Simon Doonan fashion ideas thinking All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash. Simon Doonan clothes writing america The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.' Simon Doonan leopards delight fashion Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you've just murdered someone in them. Simon Doonan shoes yellow interesting If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible. Simon Doonan inappropriate planets self Architects are the new comedians. Simon Doonan architect comedian Why the hell wouldn't you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, who look interesting and smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors? Simon Doonan smell people interesting
