The Asylum - True Tales of Madness from a Life in Fashion

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.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Doonan, Doonan Simon
• Publisher: Blue Rider Press PRH US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2015
• EAN: 9780399173714
• ISBN: 978-0-399-17371-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; HUMOR / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, Humour, Fashion & society, Fashion & textiles: design, Humour collections & anthologies, Humour collections and anthologies, Fashion and textile design, Cultural studies: dress and society, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs