Writer, fashion commentator and window-dresser, Simon Doonan, is known for his provocative "Simon Says" column in the New York Observer. He has written four books: Confessions of a Window Dresser, Wacky Chicks, a memoir entitled Nasty and a tongue-in-cheek style guide entitled Eccentric Glamour. Nasty is to be re-released as Beautiful People. A comedy TV series entitled Beautiful People, produced by Jon Plowman, will debut on LOGO in May.
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'T-Rex' Will Never Be Extinct
Simon Doonan on the eternal cool of Marc Bolan, the fabulous, fey, and long-gone-but-not-forgotten... MORE
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Dead Cool: Florence Foster Jenkins
In the age of talentless nobodies becoming miraculously famous, still-talentless somebodies, it’s... MORE
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Why Draq Queens Should Handle Disaster Relief
Why aren’t more drag queens handling disaster relief?... MORE
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Dead Cool: Gayelord Hauser
Listen up, Jamie Oliver!... MORE
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Dead Cool: Ian Dury
Long before Lady Gaga and her disco stick, there was Ian Dury, British rock god—and subject of a... MORE
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Dead Cool: Anna May Wong
With the Oscars approaching, Simon Doonan says we should all take a minute to remember leggy,... MORE
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Dead Cool: Johnny Thunders
As another season of American Idol revs up, Simon Doonan says we’d do well to remember the immortal... MORE
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Dead Cool: Madame Blavatsky
Fabulous lunatic Madame Blavatsky was a con artist, a mystic, and the founder of the Theosophist... MORE
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Pauline Bonaparte: Dead Cool
Napoleon’s hot, profligate sister shagged like a man, shopped like a Madoff, and wooed a Borghese.... MORE
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Marty Feldman: Dead Cool
Where has all the ugly gone?... MORE
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Benjamin Disraeli: Dead Cool
From befriending Queen Victoria to appearing on Family Guy, British Prime Minister Benjamin... MORE
