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Eccentric Glamour

Creating an insanely more fabulous you.

Published by Simon and Schuster

In his fourth book Simon Doonan offers a defense against the tidal wave of slutty dressing and porno-chic which has been engulfing us since the arrival of Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, may she rest in peace, and Tara Reid.

Simon Doonan believes that eccentric glamour - a unique personal style - is every woman's birthright. Constructing and designing a glamorously eccentric you means understanding and magnifying the core of your individuality. While the typical TV boobs 'n' botox make-overs force everywoman to look the same - see The Real Housewives of Orange County - the transformations which he strives to provoke in this book are the very opposite.

Developing a glamorously eccentric style involves revealing and magnifying everything which is unique and idiosyncratic about you.

Conformity is the only crime and dressing down is the only faux-pas.

This book is by no means a typical style advice book. In Eccentric Glamour you will find a unique mixture of cultural commentary and personal disclosure, generously seasoned with gushings of wildly dictatorial, provocative and reckless style advice and evenly sprinkled with one-on-one interviews with fourteen of the World's most glamorous eccentrics, including TILDA SWINTON, DITA von TEESE, LUCY LIU, and IMAN.

In addition, these pages are liberally, randomly and spontaneously larded with autobiographical humiliations, including, but not limited to, the author's obsession with jazzercize and his embarrassing forays into celebrity impersonation.

Those who have enjoyed stories about Mr. Doonan's early years in his New York Observer columns and previous books will be happy to know the dramatis personae of his wacky childhood - key figures in the evolution of his beliefs regarding eccentric glamour - are omnipresent, including his blind Aunt Phyllis and his self-invented eccentrically glamorous parents Terry and Betty. With a missionary zeal, Simon Doonan offers the women of America an alternative to the ubiquitous cheapness and tackiness which currently passes for personal style.

SAY NO TO HO!....and yes to ECCENTRIC GLAMOUR!

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