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The asylum : true tales of madness from a life in fashion / Simon Doonan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2015Description: 268 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780399173714 (paperback)
  • 0399173714 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TT507 .D585 2015
Contents:
Lipstick on your kneecaps -- From couture to parole -- When bossy bitches roamed the Earth -- Tears for frocks -- Suzy Menkes's saucisson -- Rei Kawakubo's pasties -- Balenciaga could sew with either hand -- The devil and Miguel Adrover -- The nude wall phone -- Thierry Mugler's flying shoulder pads -- The unkindness of chic -- America's next top shaman -- Anna's wondering why we haven't started yet -- The dream crusher -- Tom Ford's moist lip -- Toxins are the new cargo pants -- Thom Browne's hairy ankles -- The Olsens vs the Phoenix Suns -- Coco was a Jersey girl -- The cellulite closet -- Manishewitz? j'adore! -- Plato ripped my blouse -- Willi Smith was a right-on sista -- Alexander will need a room -- Zips up the back with no bones.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 746.92 DOO 1 Available T00586373
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

After nearly a lifetime spent in the Industry, author and fashion insider Simon Doonan is ready to let you in on a little secret: his peers in this multibillion-dollar industry are just as nutty as the denizens of your local loony bin. In The Asylum , an unabashedly hilarious memoir-in-essays, Doonan, the creative ambassador for Barneys New York, tells the real-life stories of glamorous madness and stylish insanity.

Doonan has seen it all: from dealing with models unable to work for fear of ghosts, to deep-sea fishing with a couturier pal and his jailbird companion, to watching Anna Wintour remain perfectly calm while the ceiling fell--literally--in the middle of Fashion Week. The outlandish family Doonan knew as a child has given way to alarmingly similar lunatic peers in the fashion world: style insiders see patterns and trends in everything; they suffer from outsize personality disorders and delusions of grandeur; and, of course, they have a predilection for theatrical makeup and artfully destroyed clothing. No one is more suited to the asylum than the truly die-hard fashionista--after all, eccentricity and extremism are the foundations of great style.

Hailed as "a must-read for fashionistas and non-fashionistas alike," (Michael Kors) and "raucous and revelatory" ( Booklist ), Doonan's critically acclaimed collection gives us the scoop on the kooky, cutthroat--but always fabulous--fashion world, and proves the author to be one of the sharpest humorists writing today.

Lipstick on your kneecaps -- From couture to parole -- When bossy bitches roamed the Earth -- Tears for frocks -- Suzy Menkes's saucisson -- Rei Kawakubo's pasties -- Balenciaga could sew with either hand -- The devil and Miguel Adrover -- The nude wall phone -- Thierry Mugler's flying shoulder pads -- The unkindness of chic -- America's next top shaman -- Anna's wondering why we haven't started yet -- The dream crusher -- Tom Ford's moist lip -- Toxins are the new cargo pants -- Thom Browne's hairy ankles -- The Olsens vs the Phoenix Suns -- Coco was a Jersey girl -- The cellulite closet -- Manishewitz? j'adore! -- Plato ripped my blouse -- Willi Smith was a right-on sista -- Alexander will need a room -- Zips up the back with no bones.

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Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Author's Note Ah! Fashion. A nuthouse? A refuge? Or maybe both. Yes, an asylum in both senses of the word. A place where unemployable crazy people are always welcome. Every seasoned fashion personage has his or her favorite stories of folly, aberration, derangement, kookiness and excess. These are mine. In most instances real names are used. I have tweaked the identities of certain individuals to protect their innocence and cherish their fabulosity. Have I embroidered or embellished? Let me answer that question by quoting Diana Vreeland: "Exaggeration is my only reality." --S. D. Excerpted from The Asylum: True Tales of Madness from a Life in Fashion by Simon Doonan All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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