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 collection of autobiographical essays; Doonan; the creative ambassador for Barneys New York; 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 fellmdash;literallymdash;in the middle of Fashion Week. Once you start looking; he says; yoursquo;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 predilection for theatrical makeup and artfully destroyed clothing. No one is more suited to the asylum than the truly die-hard fashionistamdash;after all; eccentricity and extremism are the foundations of great style.With his gimlet eye for the absurd and a love for eccentricity; Doonanrsquo;s personal and professional stories never fail to entertain. ldquo;The David Sedaris of the style universerdquo; (The Boston Globe) gives us the scoop on the kooky; cutthroatmdash;but always fabulousmdash;fashion world; and proves himself one of the sharpest humorists writing today.
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