‘It Takes a Special Kind of Man to Want to Stick It in the Girl in the Philip Treacy Lobster Hat’

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Mickey Boardman on Isabella Blow: "I think she really wanted to get laid, which was kind of problematic considering how she dressed. It takes a special kind of man to want to stick it in the girl in the Philip Treacy lobster hat."
Lucy Liu on her fabulously plans for the future: "I wish to be cryogenically frozen in Nan Kempner's closet, and when I wake up, I can choose from her incredible collection."
Hamish Bowles on his fabulous near-death experience: "I was listening to a Gertrude Lawrence 78 on a windup gramophone I had compelled my parents to buy me. Lost in the evocative magic of La Lawrence's crackling trills, I failed to notice that the trailing end of a blue chiffon scarf I had knotted insouciantly at my neck had caught in the turntable, and the next thing I knew my face was smack against the spinning disc and I was gasping for air."
Lynn Yaeger on her own fabulously insane look: "Once when I was on fashion TV and a friend of my mother's commented to her that they had made me up funny for the broadcast and my mom replied 'Oh, no! That's my Lynnie!'"
Malcolm Gladwell on his fabulously insane hair: "I hate to break it to you, but I don't consider myself either eccentric or glamorous. I am, in point of fact, a dork."
—Amy Preiser

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