Simon Doonan Quotes

• Conformity is the only real fashion crime

  Simon Doonan

  Fashion, Real, Conformity

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• Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

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  Humanity, Crime, Crimes Against Humanity

  Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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

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  Important, Score, Masochistic

  "3 Style Tips to Live By, Courtesy of Simon Doonan" by Christina Perez, www.glamour.com. September 4, 2013.

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• The charming shall inherit the Earth.

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  Earth, Charming

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• 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.

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  Air, Knowing, People

  Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Writing, Clothes, America

  Simon Doonan (2008). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Architects are the new comedians.

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  Comedian, Architect

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

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  Formal, Conventional

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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?

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  Smell, People, Interesting

  Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'

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  Fashion, Leopards, Delight

  Simon Doonan (2008). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Shoes, Yellow, Interesting

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• 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

  Self, Inappropriate, Planets

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