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Glamorous eccentrics are irresistible people. They are irreverent, occasionally impertinent, a tad mysterious, charming, often self-invented, good at applying eyeliner, and above all nonconformist. They are a fabulous confection of style, self-empowerment, and black patent sling backs. Everyone wants to be one, but how? Ubiquitous style guru Simon Doonan has the answer.
By no means a typical how-to manual, Eccentric Glamour is a mixture of cultural commentary and personal disclosure, generously seasoned with gushings of wildly dictatorial, provocative, and reckless style advice. Through cautionary tales and inspirational examples, Doonan shows how to develop your own brand of eccentric glamour -- by magnifying everything that is already unique and idiosyncratic about you.
In these comic essays, interspersed with one-on-one interviews with some of the worlds most glamorous eccentrics (including Iman, Lucy Liu, Tilda Swinton, Malcolm Gladwell, and many more), Simon Doonan offers the women of America an alternative to the cheapness and tackiness that currently pass for personal style. Eccentric Glamour is intended as an antidote to the epidemic of slutty dressing and porno-chic that has taken over since the arrival of Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith (may she rest in peace). While the typical TV boobs n Botox makeovers force every woman to look the same, the transformations this book strives to inspire are the very opposite. Dressing like a ho is not just bad taste but boring! In Simon Doonans book, conformity is the only crime and dressing down the only faux pas.
Eccentric Glamour is every womans birthright. SO SAY NO TO HO!...and yes to ECCENTRIC GLAMOUR!
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Nasty:
My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints
Wacky Chicks:
Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women
Confessions of a Window Dresser:
Tales from a Life in Fashion
Simon & Schuster
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Copyright 2008 by Simon Doonan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Doonan, Simon
Eccentric glamour: creating an insanely
more fabulous you/Simon Doonan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. WomenPsychology. 2. WomenAttitudes. 3. Beauty, Personal. 4. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics). 5. Self-esteem in women. 6. Body image in women. I. Title.
HQ1206.D664 2008
646.7'0420207dc22
2007032564
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6455-3
ISBN-10: 1-4165-6455-1
All photography copyright Roxanne Lowit
except Malcolm Gladwell, Section "PROFILE: MALCOLM GLADWELL".
Illustration by Ruben Toledo, Section "PROFILE: ISABEL TOLEDO".
Visit us on the World Wide Web:
http://www.SimonSays.com
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.
Thanks to all the glam eccentrics who have provided the inspirational gasoline to this project, especially the ones who submitted to interrogation: Iris Apfel, Mickey Boardman, Hamish Bowles, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Amy Fine Collins, Malcolm Gladwell, Iman, Alexandra Jacobs, Lucy Liu, Tilda Swinton, Dita Von Teese, Isabel Toledo, Kelly Wearstler, and Lynn Yeager.
Thanks to Howard Socol and all my colleagues at Barneys who enthrall me with their varying degrees of glamour and eccentricity on a daily basis.
Thanks to the folks at the New York Observer , and Simon & Schuster, especially Amanda Murray and Tracey Guest. Thanks to Tanya McKinnon, James Addams, Robert Forrest, Albert Sanchez, Aaron Sciandra, and Jerry Stafford for their glamorous enabling.
Special gratitude to Roxanne Lowit, without whose photographs this book would be less glamourously eccentric. And thanks to Roxannes incredibly patient assistant, Shoko Takayasu.
Finally, and most important, I want to thank Jonathan Adler, my dreamboat, my rock, the love of my life.
CHAPTER 1
Simone de Beauvoir Was Totally Hot
Say no to ho and yes to eccentric glamour
PROFILE
TILDA SWINTON
CHAPTER 2
A Small Quantity of Spit
Guarding your self-esteem, not to mention your maquillage
PROFILE
DITA VON TEESE
CHAPTER 3
What the Hookers Are Wearing
The meaning of snakeskin culottes
PROFILE
IMAN
CHAPTER 4
Freuds Handbag
Nobody wants an old clutch
PROFILE
ISABEL TOLEDO
CHAPTER 5
Call Ghost Bustiers
Exorcising your vintage clothing
PROFILE
MR. MICKEY BOARDMAN
CHAPTER 6
Aunt Sylvias Fanny Pack
A career la mode
PROFILE
IRIS APFEL
CHAPTER 7
Looking Cher
Tempus fugit, so get used to it
PROFILE
ALEXANDRA JACOBS
CHAPTER 8
Who Killed Joie de Vivre?
Squeeze a lemon on the cat and shout, Sourpuss!
PROFILE
MALCOLM GLADWELL
CHAPTER 9
Frenchwomen Dont Know Diddly
Vive la vulgarit!
PROFILE
KELLY WEARSTLER
CHAPTER 10
A Large Woman on a Small Stool
An etiquette for the twenty-first century
PROFILE
AMY FINE COLLINS
CHAPTER 11
A-List Celebs Dont Puke in Their Purses
Fame and the glam eccentric
PROFILE
LYNN YAEGER
CHAPTER 12
Hurl Your Arms Heavenward
A glam eccentric guide to weight loss
PROFILE
BETH RUDIN D E WOODY
CHAPTER 13
Soothing or Annoying
The glam eccentric guide to love
PROFILE
LUCY LIU
CHAPTER 14
Splash Your Breasts with Ice-Cold Water
Lousy advice with chilling consequences
PROFILE
HAMISH BOWLES
CHAPTER 15
Dressing Down Is a Crime Against Humanity
Dont hide your eccentric glamour under a bushel
POSTSCRIPT
Isabella Blow
Why the hell wouldnt you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, the people who look interesting and smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors?
I recently left my apartment dressed as Queen Elizabeth II. Not queen as in corgis and tweed skirts, but queen as in decked out like a giant flashing Christmas tree on the occasion of some totally major state dinner. Accessories? Just a few: long white gloves, two rhinestone necklaces, eleven bracelets, three brooches, six rings, a sash, two dangly earrings, three medals, a hubcap-sized tiara, and a giant pair of bifocals.
As I rode down in the elevator on that sunny spring Saturday afternoon, I braced myself for the inevitable catcalls and vulgar badinage that common sense told me would erupt as soon as I appeared in the busy lobby of my Greenwich Village apartment building. Hopefully I would be able to hail a cab and flee before some random passerby elected to throw a half-eaten Big Mac at Her Majesty.
Why, you may well ask, had I made myself vulnerable to public humiliation in such a specific manner? All such questions will be answered when you read Chapter 12 of the style manifesto which you are holding in your hot little hands. For the moment, I would like to stay focused on the specific sequence of events that was about to occur.
Ping. The doors opened. I began to traverse the carpeted lobby deploying the measured, flat-footed gate of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which is very easy to imitate but nonetheless won Helen Mirren an Oscar, and might have done the same for me had I been given a crack at the role.
My doorman approached. I dropped my front door key into my white purse, clicked it shut and tried to look regal. I waved. He did not wave back.
He came out from behind his little desk and blocked my path.
(Cricket sounds.)
I looked at him. He looked at my tits. I looked at his eyes looking at my tits. My tiara flashed in the afternoon sunlight, causing him to wince.
I stood my ground and returned his stare.
It was hard to get a read on his expression. Was he about to call the co-op board? Had he already pressed a concealed button summoning men in white coats from Bellevue?
(More crickets.)
Finally he spoke. Do you want your mail now, he asked, or when you come back?
(Abrupt cessation of crickets.)
I was too stunned to respond.
I was completely overcome by the profound, global, philosophical, and far-reaching significance of this surreal little moment and the thunderbolt of immediate but deep understanding it had afforded me.
In an instant I understood the utter pointlessness of ever being self-conscious, the utter pointlessness of restraint or good taste, the utter pointlessness of not having fun with ones personal style. I had left my apartment dressed as the reigning monarch of my birthplace, and my doorman seemed not even to have noticed. I now understood the futility of a life spent asking, Does my bum look big in this? Clearer than ever, I saw the pointlessness of a life lived without a dab of daring panache. I understood the role of eccentric glamour.
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