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Eccentric glamour : creating an insanely more fabulous you
Title:
Eccentric glamour : creating an insanely more fabulous you
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ISBN:
9781416535430 |
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster,
Format:
Regular print
Physical Description:
xix, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Syndetics ICE Summary:
<b>Glamorous eccentrics are irresistible people.</b> 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. <p/> By no means a typical how-to manual, <i>Eccentric Glamour</i> 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. <p/> In these comic essays, interspersed with one-on-one interviews with some of the world's 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. <i>Eccentric Glamour</i> 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 Doonan's book, conformity is the only crime and dressing down the only faux pas. <p/> Eccentric Glamour is every woman's birthright. <b>SO SAY NO TO HO!</b>...and yes to <b>ECCENTRIC GLAMOUR!</b> (Ingram Syndetics 2021-05-23)
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Syndetics ICE PW Review:
Entertaining and bitingly witty, Doonan (Confessions of a Window Dresser) calls upon the women of America to embrace their inner potential for dressing idiosyncratically, conventions be damned. But in making clear his fondness for vulgarity and bits of bad taste, he is clear about the downright hideous: fannypacks, for instance, are close to blasphemy. Doonan is uninhibited in revealing certain truths many outside the fashion industry tend to throw in its face: yes, there is more to life than clothing, and yes, the world of high style is often "depressing." Before one praises him for single-handedly unveiling the dirty underbelly of Fashion Week, it?s worth noting his reliance on heavyweight figures such as Iman, Isabel Toledo, Lucy Liu and Hamish Bowels to provide their own insights via mini-surveys. Entertaining anecdotes from Doonan?s life pepper the text, though his own style can at times be flippant or offensive (as when musing on how he would dress were he a butch lesbian). (Apr.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. (PW Annex Reviews 2008-03-24) |
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