Description: The Asylum: True Tales of Madness from a Life in Fashion by Doonan, Simon 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Product Group: Book
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Asylum : True Tales of Madness from Alife in Fashion
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Simon Doonan
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Fashion & Accessories, Personal Memoirs, General, Form / Essays
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Design, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
Item Weight: 10.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
