Doonan Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

Simon Doonan

#5. Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

Simon Doonan

#6. Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children.

Simon Doonan

#7. The charming shall inherit the Earth.

Simon Doonan

#8. Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.

Sarah Kane

#9. In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#10. 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

#11. Conformity is the only real fashion crime

Simon Doonan

#12. 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

#13. Come, drink with me," the fat man said. "A scale from the dragon that burned you, as they say.

George R R Martin

#14. Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Simon Doonan

#15. Architects are the new comedians.

Simon Doonan

#16. We're in the wrong universe for fair.

John Scalzi

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Gay men are French women...with penises.

Simon Doonan

#20. Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea

Tove Jansson

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

Simon Doonan