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Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You | 
| Author: Simon Doonan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 3770
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416535438
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.70420207
EAN: 9781416535430
ASIN: 1416535438
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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Condition: never opened - perfect condition
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Product Description
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. Eccentric Glamour is every woman's birthright. SO SAY NO TO HO!...and yes to ECCENTRIC GLAMOUR!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 For serious Simon Doonan fans only May 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thought this book would be fun as well as helpful. Had a hard time getting through even the first few chapters. Nothing really helpful here if you are truly trying to find out what clothes suit you best, general fashion rules and tips, or how to create your own sense of style (that is not over the top). I should have trusted the poor reviews I read.
I'm giving this one to my sister, who considers herself a fashionista and may enjoy the author's style.
 Fun Book May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book! Simon Doonan captivated me with his witty, sly and pithy writing style. I didn't want to put it down! The way in which Simon distills fashion into three styles - Gypsies, Existentialists and Socialites is fascinating. I'm now seeing examples of those distinct looks in ads and fashion magazine layouts. Few and far between are people who love fashion and aren't afraid to express their individuality and really "dress up". What we now take for eccentricity in dress would have hardly seemed out of the ordinary in the 60's and 70's. I believe the poor grooming habits and lack of style in the majority of Americans is the result of the jeans and tee shirt culture we're living in now. As music has become dumbed down so has fashion. People have lost their sense of fun and creativity in getting dressed - they have a fear of standing out from the crowd. Here in San Diego where I live I'm always non-plused at how sloppy and down right dull folks like to look! It isn't uncommon to go to some ones home for a beautiful sit down dinner and find your dinner partner in jeans and a plaid shirt!! I'm talking about VIP's in the county! "Eccentric Glamour" in a way fulfills my longing for real style. For me the book gets 5 stars.
Laugh-out-loud funny May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I adored this book and was sad when I read the very last page that my time in the company of the wonderful Simon Doonan was coming to a close. Rarely have I literally burst into laughter while reading a book (causing quite a commotion on the airplane!). This is not the book to pick up if you're looking for a list of must-haves for your wardrobe. Instead, it celebrates those glorious creatures who throw fashion advice to the wind and unabashedly embrace their own unique, personal style--whether Vogue agrees or not. A true delight!
This guy must be the MFK Fisher of fashion writers April 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Simon Doonan is clearly dealing with a minor bat infestation in his flawlessly-haberdashered belfry, but the man can write. I don't think there's one clunky sentence in this book. It's also hysterically funny and subversive, and the brilliance of the writing elevates the material to no end. I'm indifferent to fashion and I'm still buying this thing in hardcover -- and now that I am armed with my diagnosis of Existentialist with Gypsy overtones, shopping has even become more enjoyable.
Simon, Are You Listening? April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Where are all of the gushing reviews for this book?! Maybe I'm a speedier reader than most but I would assume anyone who's read this would immediately get online and share with the world what a hilarious gem this is.
Charming, self-deprecating, outrageous and dead right about fashionable people and popular culture, Simon Doonan is THE man I'd want at my dinner party. By page 100 of Eccentric Glamour I had to put it down because I was shaking with silent laughter at every word. Literally every "of", "the" and "and"!
Please, Simon, please let your next book be a compendium of all the columns you've written for the New York Observer. Thanks for making this world your own.
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