Wacky Chicks

Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women

By: Simon Doonan

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Paperback | 2 June 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Wacky chicks are women who turn heads, get people talking and start trends. They dare to wear the outrageous and live life any way they see fit. And now New York Observer columnist and savvy social commentator Simon Doonan trains his most discerning eye on sixteen of these exceptional creatures, and shows how a fiercely embraced sense of individuality can be an inspiration to us all. Doonan interviews wacky chicks like Amy Sedaris, host of Comedy Central's hit show, Strangers with Candy; Suzanne Bartsch, the woman who taught Madonna how to vogue; and lower profile wacky chicks like hip hypnotist Jessica Porter and Isabel Garrett, a freestyle fashion designer working out of a trailer in a Florida nudist colony. As different as they are outrageous, these women share a powerful nonconformist bent, and in these pages offer their priceless guidance on beauty, business, fashion, love, motherhood and unleashing your feminist wacky chick without losing your femininity. Whether Doonan is profiling a celebrity gossip columnist or a park ranger with a menagerie of reptiles, he consistently delivers his own brand of distinctively sophisticated, razor sharp wit. Truly original, WACKY CHICKS is as much a whimsical self-help book as it is a hilarious and heartfelt tribute to these avatars of style and rebellion.

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"My favorite fresh new writer of the year award goes to Simon Doonan...the most brash and brilliant thing in type."
-- Liz Smith

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acknowledgments
Introduction: An uprising of glamorous outsiders
The Ladies Who Are Out to Lunch...or B.R.U.N.C.H
The Belligerent, Resilient, Uninhibited, Naughty, Creative and Hilarious Spider Fawke
Origins: Nature or Nurture...or Torture
Brigid Berlin
The Warhol Factory Girl Sunny Chapman
The Glue Factory Girl
Style: The Missile Defense System of the Wacky Chick
Susanne Bartsch
Showgirl Chic Janet Charlton
Saboteur Chic Lisa Eisner
Critter Chic and Geezer Chic
Home: Safe Spaces for Space Cases
Pearl Harbour
Home is Where the Tart is
Work: Chicks with Shticks
Isabel Garrett
The Spandex Evangelist Amy Sedaris
Vermin And Cheeseballs
Mating Habits
Audrey "Golightly" Smaltz
Just Give Her $50 for the Powder Room
Faith: Squeezing Your Inner Shaman
Jessica Porter
Hip Hypnosis and Zen Comedy Kazuko
Crystal-Packin' Mama
The Future: The Wacky Chicklettes P5
The Editor in Chief Mary Christmas
The Radical Cheerleader
The Dark Side: When Wacky Goes Wack-Job
Conclusion
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Wacky Chicks

Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women

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