28 Quotes by Simon Doonan

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?

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.

The charming shall inherit the Earth.

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.