A Shimmering on the Horizon with Simon Doonan

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4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Former creative director of Barney’s, Making It judge, and proud High-Low Bitch Simon Doonan stops by to talk about his new book The Camp 100: Glorious Flamboyance from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X. Also: Lord Byron as superfreak, Pete Burns’ memoir Freak Unique, the pop of color Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton brought to the ‘60s, the optimism inherent in glamour, a The Wizard of Oz porta-potty, the legacy of Russ Meyer, Camp vs. campy, a future husband showing up to a first date covered in clay and on rollerblades, and a piece of music-video trivia that will blow your damn mind.

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1:17.8	campy in here because he is of course a beloved member of the fashion community famously was the creative director of
1:25.2	Barney's also the author of several books including the new one the Camp 100
1:30.3	glorious flamboyance from Louis the 14th to Lil Nause X Simon Dune and there's the book.
1:37.1	He is holding the book aloft.
1:38.6	It is a beautiful book.
1:40.7	I mean it's super entertaining but it's also the packaging is gorge.
1:44.9	It's luscious, isn't it? It is. That's the exact word.
1:48.9	Wouldn't have it any other way. Where are you joining us from, Simon? Well, today I'm in Shelter Island, so I'm having a rustic, rural,
2:00.8	full crunchy moment.
2:05.0	Sounds like a dream.
2:06.9	So since we're gonna be talking about books today,
2:10.2	are you reading anything that you're loving at the moment or what's on your nightstand or your your bedside table?
2:16.0	Well, I'm a real high-low bitch, you know, like I love to go from trash to high brow.
2:22.8	So I read Pete Burns autobiography.
2:25.8	Fenton Bailey said, oh, you've got to read this.
2:28.4	It's so great.
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