num_pages: 288
description: After nearly a lifetime spent in the Industry author and fashion insider Simon Doonan is ready to let you in on a little 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 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 fellliterallyin the middle of Fashion Week. The outlandish family Doonan knew as a child has given way to alarmingly similar lunatic peers in the fashion 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 fashionistaafter 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 ) Doonans critically acclaimed collection gives us the scoop on the kooky cutthroatbut always fabulousfashion world and proves the author to be one of the sharpest humorists writing today.
language: English
title: The Asylum: True Tales of Madness from a Life in Fashion
publisher: Blue Rider Press