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Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You
Simon & Schuster
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 1416535438
EAN: 9781416535430
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Glamorous eccentrics are irresistible people. 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. By no means a typical how-to manual, Eccentric Glamour 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. 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. Eccentric
Glamour 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.
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