Jonathan Adler Eccentric Glamour by Simon Doonan
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After more than twenty years 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: A Collage of Couture Reminiscences and Hysteria, an unabashedly hilarious collection of autobiographical essays from the creative ambassador of Barneys New York, he tells the real-life stories of glamorous madness and stylish insanity. Doonan has witnessed models unable to work for fear of ghosts, gone deep-sea fishing with a couturier pal and his jailbird companion, and watched Anna Wintour remain perfectly calm while the ceiling fell-literally-in the middle of Fashion Week. Once you start looking, you'll notice telltale signs of lunacy everywhere: Style insiders see patterns and trends in everything, they suffer from outsize personality disorders and delusions of grandeur, and of course, they have a predilectio
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