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How Long Gone

639. - Simon Doonan

How Long Gone

Chris Black & Jason Stewart / Talkhouse

Society & Culture

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Simon Doonan is a fashion icon, author, and former Barneys New York creative director. His book Drag will be released in paperback on May 21st. We chat about the correct time of day to do pilates, Chris in Nashville, Simon travels light, when people copied his window displays, the way he pronounces NASCAR, Los Angeles from the 70s to the 80s, how to have a groovy life without a ton of dough, early Maxfield's stories, the relationship between malnutrition and fashion, beetroot salads, his dog's names, how he fits in down in Palm Beach, his tai chi philosophy, Simon's husband designed The Parker Hotel in Palm Springs and we don't talk about how expensive it is, and what it was like helping put together the Marilyn Monroe estate sale. instagram.com/simondoonan twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to go and How long gone country Chris checking in from Nashville, Tennessee, Jason, how the hell are you?

0:23.3

Flying high, bitch.

0:24.7

Another day, another Pilates class, that was epic as hell.

0:29.0

Okay, so you're living the dream?

0:31.6

I'm sweating. Okay. I'm sweating like our guest did in the dream. I'm sweating.

0:32.6

Okay.

0:33.1

I'm sweating like our guests did in the early 80s.

0:35.5

Who?

0:36.7

Okay, so what kind of people are in this class

0:39.2

because I'm sure you're taking it at a fucked up time?

0:41.4

You're not doing a 7 a.m. like you're doing a weird kind of midday

0:46.4

I would love to know what what a fucked up time to do Pilates is versus a not fucked up time? Anytime after 9 a.m. Okay so

0:56.6

so Pilates maybe the first class is at what six a.m. 7 a.m.

1:01.1

Probably well in LA probably seven in New York probably six. 7 a.m. 7 a.m. Probably 6. You guys are just a little bit better just like the eggs in Australia.

1:07.6

No shade no shade no shade. Shade taken shade taketh. No yeah, so from 7 to 9, so the business is open, let's say from 7 till 7, 12 hours, you're saying only the first two hours of operation are considered non crazy hours the the remaining

1:25.7

ten hours of the of that window roughly 80% of the day is considered the time when only mentally insane people would

1:34.8

would do I can hear the I can hear the tone in your voice of disrespect to my kind of

1:39.2

line of thinking and I you didn't let me finish it's no disrespect the no man's land time period is what psycho once it's after work time that's also normal I don't I don't like to do that but that's normal okay okay so the, so the time when everyone is at their nine to five job

1:57.2

insanity hours because usually the only people who do Pilates are business folks

2:02.0

nine to fiveers and things like that right well if you go at that if you go in the

2:06.0

and no but no moms do it at all no unemployed oh no work from home people do it at all I'm not saying

2:12.3

they don't do it. I'm just

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