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First of all, there is an Absolut Doonan. It is a bouteille collective of grotesque mannequins, in homage to Barney's New York's celebrity window dresser. Point is, he's made it. He's an Absolut ad. Next of all, there is an Doonan Absolut. It is a window display staging the making of vodka by scantily-clad mannequins in a gleaming factory cell. Point is, Absolut's made it. It's in a Doonan window. Everybody's happy, fame stacks on fame, cash registers go manic, and my heart is racing-take me to this high-speed, brite...
...very simple and seductive world presented in Confessions of a Window Dresser: you are either the window dresser, the hip collaborating artiste, the iconic figure caricatured in the display, or you are nobody. That's why you read a book like this. There might be your requisite trendoids, your sprinkle of window dresser aspirants, your misguided cultural studies concentrator who wants to derive a thesis on window displays, but the real readers-and lovers-of this book will be your drab, gray non-aesthete nobodies of life. For them, Doonan, with the aid of 200 full color illustrations...
Born in 1952 in Reading, England, Simon Doonan began trimming windows on London's Savile Row. Really, Doonan began by hanging out with lunatic relations and dressing up like the queen. This set the stage for his mod-chic and poofy youth, during which period he had time and opportunity to establish his signature punkcore and camp aesthetic. It was clear he would never sell insurance. Although, give him a window, some marabou and froufrou, and he could probably sell it by the box. Give him stuffed cats, trash cans, smashed televisions, 15,000 Q-tips, and he could become...
...paradise. There was a stint doing the storefronts of avant-garde Maxfield in L.A. and a collaboration with the legendary Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute of the Met. Then in 1986, his notoriety well-established, Doonan was snatched by Barney's New York, where he has graduated from window dresser to creative director. His justification for being is in creating windows which inhabit the realm somewhere "beyond the valley of gorgeousity...
...Cardullo's, the window display is an informal collaboration of employees' A-3 WINDOWS...