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GLAMOROUS ECCENTRICS

are irresistible people. They are irreverent, occasion-ally impertinent, a tad mysterious, charming, oftenself-invented, good at applying eyeliner, and aboveall nonconformist. They are a fabulous confectionof style, self-empowerment, and black patent slingbacks. Everyone wants to be one, but how? Ubiq-uitous style guru Simon Doonan has the answer.

By no means a typical how-to manual,Eccentric Glamour is a mixture of cultural com-mentary and personal disclosure, generouslyseasoned with gushings of wildly dictatorial, pro-vocative, and reckless style advice. Through cau-tionary tales and inspirational examples, Doonanshows how to develop your own brand of eccen-tric glamourby magnifying everything that isalready unique and idiosyncratic about you.

In these comic essays, interspersed with one-on-one interviews with some of the world's mostglamorous eccentrics (including Iman, LucyLiu, Tilda Swinton, Malcolm Gladwell, andmany more), Simon Doonan offers the womenof America an alternative to the cheapness andtackiness that currently pass for personal style.Eccentric Glamour is intended as an antidote tothe epidemic of slutty dressing and porno-chicthat has taken over since the arrival of ParisHilton and Anna Nicole Smith (may she restin peace). While the typical TV boobs 'n' Botoxmakeovers force every woman to look the same,the transformations this book strives to inspireare the very opposite. Dressing like a ho is notjust bad taste but boring! In Simon Doonan'sbook, conformity is the only crime and dressingdown the only faux pas.

Eccentric Glamour is every woman's birthright.

SO SAY NO TO HOI.andyestoECCENTRICGLAMOUR!

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ALSO BY SIMON DOONAN

Nasty:My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints

Wacky Chicks:

Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate

and Fabulously Fccentric Women

Confessions of a Window Dresser:Tales from a Life in Fashion

This book is dedicated to the memory of all the crazy broads and

blokes who have flung themselves off the ramparts of eccentric

glamour, metaphorically or literally, including, but not limited to,

Isabella Blow, Marc Bolan, Leigh Bowery, the Marchesa Casati,

Nancy Cunard, Frances Faye, Wallace Franken, Rudi Gernreich,

Radclyffe Hall, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Pepper

LaBeija, Steven Robinson, Millicent Rogers, Edie Sedgwick,

Stephen Tennant, Vita Sackville-West, and Mae West.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to all the glam eccentrics who have provided the inspira-tional gasoline to this project, especially the ones who submittedto interrogation: Iris Apfel, Mickey Boardman, Hamish Bowles,Beth Rudin DeWoody, Amy Fine Collins, Malcolm Gladwell,Iman, Alexandra Jacobs, Lucy Liu, Tilda Swinton, Dita VonTeese, Isabel Toledo, Kelly Wearstler, and Lynn Yeager.

Thanks to Howard Socol and all my colleagues at Barneyswho enthrall me with their varying degrees of glamour and ec-centricity on a daily basis.

Thanks to the folks at the New Tork Observer, and Simon &Schuster, especially Amanda Murray and Tracey Guest. Thanksto Tanya McKinnon, James Addams, Robert Forrest, AlbertSanchez, Aaron Sciandra, and Jerry Stafford for their glamor-ous enabling.

Special gratitude to Roxanne Lowit, without whose pho-tographs this book would be less glamourously eccentric. Andthanks to Roxanne's incredibly patient assistant, Shoko Takayasu.

Finally, and most important, I want to thank JonathanAdler, my dreamboat, my rock, the love of my life.

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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INTRODUCTIONxiii

CHAPTER 1

Simone de Beauvoir Was Totally HotSay no to ho and yes to eccentric glamour

PROFILE

TILDA SWINTON29

CHAPTER 2

A Small Quantity of SpitGuarding your self-esteem, not to mention your maquillage

PROFILE

DITAVONTEESE

CHAPTER 3

What the Hookers Are Wearing

The meaning ofsnakeskin culottes

PROFILE

IMAN65

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chapter 4

Freud's Handbag

Nobody wants an old clutch

PROFILE

ISABEL TOLEDO

CHAPTER 5

Call Ghost Bustiers

Exorcising your vintage clothing79

PROFILE

MR. MICKEY BOARDMAN

CHAPTER 6

Aunt Sylvia's Fanny Pack

A career a la mode

PROFILE

IRIS APFEL103

CHAPTER 7

Looking Cher

Tempus rugit, so get used to it

PROFILE

ALEXANDRA JACOBS121

Contents

chapter 8

Who Killed Joie de Vivre?

Squeeze a lemon on the cat and shout, "SourpussV

PROFILE

MALCOLM GLADWELL139

CHAPTER 9

Frenchwomen Don't Know Diddly

Vive la vulgarite!

PROFILE

KELLY WEARSTLER153

CHAPTER 10

A Large Woman on a Small Stool

An etiquette for the twenty-first century

PROFILE

AMY FINE COLLINS169

CHAPTER 11

A-List Celebs Don't Puke in Their Purses

Fame and theglam eccentric

PROFILE

LYNN YAEGER187

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Contents

chapter 12

Hurl Your Arms Heavenward

Aglam eccentric guide to weight loss

PROFILE

BETH RUDIN DeWOODY211

CHAPTER 13

Soothing or Annoying

The giant eccentric guide to love

PROFILE

LUCY LIU233

CHAPTER 14