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.

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

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

Conformity is the only real fashion crime

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.

The charming shall inherit the Earth.

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.