Simon Doonan: Gay Men Don’t Get Fat

Edited by Samantha Lim

If you’re fashion savvy on any level, you know who Simon Doonan is.  The visual charisma he brings to the windows at Barney’s resonates for every style maven from the posh women uptown to the wild experimentalists downtown. Like many icons and influencers tend to do, he started sharing his views with the world through books. His sixth literary installment Gay Men Don’t Get Fat launched this past weekend, and Simon held several speaking engagements (including a very chic breakfast with moi) where he divulged the secret world of the stereotypically stylish gays to audiences young and old. The book’s 60,000 perfect words diffuse and dive into achetypes of all sorts – from the gays to the straight men to the French women – and leave you laughing out loud…in my case embarrassingly so whilst alone in the Grey Dog Café. Here are some insights he shared, preparing us for what was to come in the book.

Simon Doonan Plays Designer Favorites

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Simon Doonan doesn’t get fat. Else he would not fit into that Alaïa he’s been eyeing and dying for. We found out all of his favorite designers this morning we met up and fêted today’s release of his new book, Gay Men Don’t Get Fat. We also learned that the gayest food on the planet is inarguably a macaroon; a burrito, quite possibly the straightest. Anyway, back to the clothing he fits into being so gay and skinny. Meet the best designers in Simon Doonan’s eyes. 

Technically Awesome Winter Jackets

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

It’s days like today that send us north easterners into a frightened frigid frenzy of layers and shivers as we push our way though the cold front. My new vintage Oscar de la Renta mohair may work in the upper 30s, low 40s, but send me below freezing and I may need something a little more high tech. Luckily, companies are hard at work developing coats that keep you super warm and not looking like a bulky snowman. They also sometimes serenade you, or protect you from ballistics. What I’m saying is that these are not your average jackets. No. These are technically awesome. 

The Chronicles of Condé Nast: The André Leon, the Wintour and the Vogue Closet

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Kelly Florio Kasouf, the daughter of the late Steve Florio — former president and CEO of Condé Nast — has written the chicest children’s book of the year about growing up in and around the publishing house. The Adventures of Sophie and the City: All in a Day’s Work follows a little girl as she’s whisked away into a magical world of fictionalized Vogues and Vanity Fairs and oh, the people she’ll meet!

Yohji Yamamoto Shows World his “Dream”

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Yohji Yamamoto is a designer of the dark. Black permeates nearly everything he creates. In a documentary coming this Fall, we get a deeper glimpse into his psyche. In “This Is My Dream” we’ll learn what makes him tick, but more importantly, what makes him design. Was it the bomb in Tokyo? That he pays no mind to trends? Is it that “too good harmony is boring… conflict is charming”? In this film, we may understand the reasoning behind one of the world’s most unique perspectives. Watch the trailer.

Real Men Wear Yamamoto

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

It got very real at Yohji Yamamoto’s Fall 2011 show in Paris, when some of his models far outsized and over-aged the likes of the typical jaw-cutting mascufeminine lads to which our eyes have grown well accustomed. It’s a shock for sure, but also a wake up call to his customers: Avant Garde holds no reservations. The weathered man may find the most comfort in his pieces that defy the norm.

The Alexander Wang Takeover Continues

Edited by The Fashion Web

You know the old saying: “Out with the Yamamoto, in with the Wang.” Something like that. Well, it looks like Alexander Wang’s taking it to heart as speculation increases that his eponymous label will be taking over the old Yohji Yamamoto store in Soho marking Wang’s first standalone store. Gird your loins, ladies. If the sample sale lines were any indication, this is going to be huge.

Y – 3 e l’inverno che verrà

Edited by The Fashion Web

Dierttamente dal futuro: ecco la provenienza quasi cera delle calzature create da Yohji Yamamoto per la collezione invernale di Y – 3.

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