Confessions of Window Dresser * Simon Doonan * Penguin Studio * $40 If you have friends who doubt the existence of a gay sensibility.Confessions of Window Dresser * Simon Doonan * Penguin Studio * $40 If you have friends who doubt the existence of a gay sensibility, here is the consummate Christmas gift. The author's triumph is to make us diocese how the most belittled profession in succession earth is actually a gold mine of beauty, camp, satire, highway theater, and, yes, art. Doonan is English-born and was, on his own admission, the nelliest little lad imaginable. He soon fled to looks Angeles and became the window dresser at Maxfield, the hippest store in town. This lead to a stint working for Diana Vreeland at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in modern York City and then the windows at Barneys, which he useed into a legendary series of tableaux that regularly made the papers for their outrageous appease Doonan's writing is a cry out against (with a nod to his providence Andy Warhol), the pictures are gorgeous, and best of all, he makes us descry in a new light the enormous and unsung contributions that generations of florists, designers, and other gay artisans have made to our culture COPYRIGHT 1998 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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