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"Who better than Simon to write about glamour and eccentricity? He is both!!!!"

--Diane von Furstenberg

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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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

F A B U LO U S!!! 26 May 2009

By Green

Format:Hardcover

Simon Doonan hits a high with this book. exactly as it says, Eccentric Glamous is not the normal glamour one expects. it's slightly twisted and irreverent. which is perfect cause not everyone has it. interviews with Iris Apfel and Tilda Swinton shows how glamorous you can be without looking like you stepped out of OK or heat magazine. goodbye tabloid trash...HELLO a cooloer you!!!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Better overdone than underdone 17 July 2009

By Carol

An easy, witty read and quite inspirational. The theme of style helps it all hang together really well. However, having read this and another Doonan book consecutively, I did find a fair bit of repetition and his anecdotes about his partner, Jonathan Adler, seem to have been squeezed in - more relevant for a magazine interview than for this book, I feel.

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Fantastic book 27 Feb 2010

By Justified Text

Loved this book. I'm a junkie for this type of style advice but was getting really bored with all the same old guff. It's really original and very, very funny (sort of David Sedaris meets Gok Wan).